Gina Sweeting
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About me
I am a relational counsellor with over twenty years experience offering a confidential and professional relationship to help couples and individuals transform difficulties into growth and healing for a good life.
You may be suffering with relationship difficulties, anxiety or depression, low self esteem, shame, trauma, loss or struggling with life events and transitions. Counselling can help you work through your experiences, connect to your strengths and build a deeper understanding about yourself, others and your world so that you are able to be the person you are meant to be.
Usually a crisis or life changing event brings someone to counselling. This can be bereavement, having a baby, separation, divorce, redundancy, relationship difficulties, abuse or memory trigger for childhood abuse or transitions. It is often at these painful and difficult times that people address issues that they have managed or coped with most of their lives. Although no one wants to experience pain and loss it can mean, with the right support, that they are able to get more out of life and relationships.
The changes that people make through counselling with me is primarily from the relationship that we build together creating a safe and confidential space. My training in both individual counselling and couples counselling along with experience of working sucessfully with many people who have courageously brought their vulnerability form the foundation of the counselling I provide.
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Couples Counselling using the Arts and Nature 2013
Certificate in Couples Counselling 2008
BACP Accreditation 2003
CSTD Certificate in supervision 2021
Psychology Matters - Certificate in Supervision 2001
Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy 1999
M.Sc in Sociology 1994
B.Sc in Psychology 1987
I am an Integrative Humanistic Counsellor having trained in a number of approaches to enable working with the strengths and style of the client. I have worked both in the NHS and in the private sector undertaking both long and short term work.
I am a mother, step-mother, partner and sister.
Member organisations
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
As many therapists at this time sparked by the pandemic I have learnt to work online with individuals and couples. I have undertaken core training to hold a therapeutic space online and intend to further develop this mode of practice. I am pleased to discover how possible it is to create powerful therapeutic holding through video online sessions for those who have a private space and internet connection. I continue to offer online sessions as my preference along government guidelines to minimise the risk of covid infection.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial in-person session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
£60Individuals, £85 Couples. Concessions available where appropriate
When I work
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Week day daytime and Tuesday evening
Further information
I abide by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Code of Ethics. I have regular supervision and undertake my own personal therapy.
The majority of my learning comes from my clients who take a risk to open up with often very painful memories, feelings and thoughts to realise they can transform their deepest fears and hurt into learning and appreciate themselves as resourceful and valuable human beings.
