Aileen Ross - Senior Accredited MBACP Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Supervisor

West Didsbury Holistic Centre
81 Palatine Road
Didsbury
Manchester
M20 3LJ
View map		 Glossop
Derbyshire
SK13
View map		 Aileen Ross
0845 458 9944
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With 15 years skilled and extensive professional experience, I offer you safe, supportive space to help you tackle difficult issues with wide-ranging expertise to facilitate life changes ...

I am an Integrative therapist with a person-centred approach to working with people, which means I believe YOU have the resources within yourself to identify changes you need to make while also possessing the inner strength, energy and abilities to do so.

However, I also know how people usually need considerable encouragement and motivation to actually believe this !  So to help you make longlasting changes in your life, I see myself as a facilitator of your change . . . working alongside you, being curious with you about yourself, and helping you to ask and answer the core questions to get to the heart of what may be causing your difficulties and concern at this time.

What I offer you . . .
. . .  is a non-judgmental, safe, and confidential opportunity for you to explore these feelings and issues as you work out what changes you want to make in your life and future behaviour.  In doing so, I draw on a variety of therapeutic theories and skills to work integratively in a unique way with each client.

These include Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Stress Reduction ( MBCT / MBSR ), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis and Psychodynamic therapeutic skills.

People seek counselling for a wide variety of reasons: anxiety, panic attacks, stress, work-related issues, low self-esteem, depression, anger management, bereavement, abuse, addictions, and couple counselling or relationship counselling amongst them.

Clients have told me that whatever their issues, they find I have an empathic  understanding of where they are in their lives and intuitively know how to facilitate their healing, change and growth.

My Counselling Practices
I have 2 counselling practices - one in GLOSSOP SK13, and the other in SOUTH MANCHESTER, DIDSBURY, M20 and CHORLTON, M21 which means I am able to reach clients across most of South Manchester and round to Ashton, Hyde, Oldham, Glossop, Derbyshire High Peak, Buxton and Chapel en Le Frith.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

I am a highly skilled, professionally trained, and a qualified UK Registered Independent Counsellor with an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling from Manchester University and 15 years' experience working with clients. I am also a Senior Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), which is the lead organisation in my profession.
I work to and abide by its ethical code of conduct. 

You will also find me registered on the national approved register for UK psychotherapists and counsellors - the UKRCP. 

Both of these professional stamps of approval mean you can be sure I continue with my therapeutic training and personal development and keep myself up-to-date with research and development, new skills and theory, in my chosen field of work.

My Professional Experience
As an experienced counsellor I have worked since the mid 1990s with hundreds of clients in the NHS, private and public organisations, GP surgeries, work-based settings, and in private practice, working with issues ranging from relationship counselling and couple counselling, to depression, stress, anxiety, anger management, work-related issues, abuse, self-esteem issues, low self-confidence, and bereavement, grief and loss.

I enjoy working with people and understanding how they 'tick' just as I have always liked to understand my own emotional needs as they have changed over the years. I am essentially a 'people' person and this has always inspired my work.

As a highly experienced therapist, I supervise a number of other counsellors in their professional work. Alongside this, I lecture in counselling, facilitate stress management training and also run personal development workshops.

As a Coach and Mentor I work with individuals in a variety of different environments, and I also provide Mediation services to resolve conflict in workplace and community settings.

My most recent training has been in Mindfulness-based behavioural techniques and stress management (MBCT/MBSR). So I now also teach Mindful approaches to changing behaviour and self-managing stress, anxiety, depression, pain or illness. I offer this in either group settings or on a one-to-one basis. 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like to learn more about this new innovative therapeutic approach which is drawn from ancient ways of being . . .
either via aileenross@btopenworld.com   or on 0845 458 9944

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

I have had extensive experience working with clients with relationship issues, couple counselling, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, work-related problems, abuse, grief, loss and bereavement, anger management, depression, post-traumatic stress, eating disorders, employment difficulties and identity problems.

Life Coaching, Stress Management, & Mediation
I also work as a Life Coach and am a Stress management trainer, offering stress counselling. Alongside this I also provide mediation services to resolve conflict and difficult issues in work-based and community settings.

MINDFULNESS
My most recent training has been in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction ( MBSR / MBCT ), and I offer group sessions and one-to-one work with people to learn Mindful approaches to self-manage stress, anxiety, depression, pain and illness. 

Contact me Aileen Ross on 0845 458 9944  or via aileenross@btopenworld.com to find out more about these approaches which are gradually being offered across the NHS and many other professional organisations as incredibly relaxing and mind-changing ways of using MBSR and MBCT to self-manage stress, anxiety, depression, pain or illness.

Therapies Offered

Fees

My fees range from £40 to £75 per hourly session, depending on the type of counselling / coaching being offered and whether to individuals or via organisations.

I offer some concessionary rates to clients on low income or benefits.

For more information email me via aileenross@btopenworld.com
or call me on 0845 458 9944

Further Information

If you would like to talk to me about counselling and any issues you currently have please don't hesitate to call me on 0845 458 9944 to have a confidential chat. 

Please feel free to leave a message on this voicemail service as only I can access and listen to your message.

Or do feel free to email me if you would prefer that way of approaching me first. 

I look forward to hearing from you . . .
email me - Aileen Ross on aileenross@btopenworld.com
or call me on 0845 458 9944

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