Jon Edge, MSc, MA, B.Ed Hons, UKCP, MBACP - NHS and Private Practice

Jon Edge, MSc, MA, B.Ed Hons, UKCP, MBACP - NHS and Private Practice
London
SE5 and SE6 .

tel: 07887778360
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Counsellor Profile

I am a qualified counsellor and a registered psychotherapist in the NHS. I also run a small private practice which I set up in 1988. Before taking up my post in a hospital, I worked as a university counsellor and in a community mental health team in the NHS. I have also worked as a lecturer and tutor in counselling and still do some freelance lecturing at several universities.

I have experience of working with a wide range of clients presenting with a huge range of emotional and psychological problems and issues. Over the years I have built up an expertise base in working with survivors of abuse, depression, relationship problems and in helping people with medical and health-related conditions.

Training, Qualifications & Experience (more info)

M.Sc in Counselling (Birkbeck College)

Diploma in Student Counselling (Birkbeck College)

Previously University Counsellor at the University of Essex

Visiting Lecturer at City University (1996-2006)

Tutor in Counselling Birkbeck College (1988-2005)

UKCP Registered Psychotherapist

Full Member of the Guild of Psychotherapists

Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Current Tutor in Counselling (Mary Ward Centre, London)

M.A. in English (London University) 1982

B.Ed. Hons (London University Teaching Degree) 1976

Substanital experience as a Supervisor for colleagues and trainee counsellors

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Self-esteem
Personal Development
Work-related stress
Health-related anxiety
Bullying and abuse in the workplace

Fees

£50 - £70 negotiable and with some concessions for students and low income clients

Extra Information

I trained in psychodynamic counselling and in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I am, however, a tutor in Humanistic Counselling and have a broad knowledge base of a range of counselling modalities and practices. This enables me to work flexibly and to be able to adapt the kind of counselling I offer to the individual needs of the clients I see.

I relate warmly and supportively to my clients, while recognising that clients come to therapy to learn about themselves and to hear the kind of things that friends, family and colleagues do not say - so I am very straight- forward and honest.

I have 20 years experience of doing long-term and time-limited work with clients from many different social, educational and cultural backgrounds. I have also been involved across this time in training and supervising other counsellors.

Before I trained as a counsellor in the mid-1980s, I worked for many years as a teacher, and was head of English for 10 years in a large inner-city secondary school. I have the greatest respect for people's different ways of learning from experience. I am able to work with clients in a style that suits their backgrounds, personalities and educational levels.

I am rigorously self-reflective and have an ongoing interest in teams, organisations, institutions and the world of work. I have a particular interest in the way in which individuals function, flourish, develop or get stuck in the workplace - drawing on the application of psychoanalysis to unconscious processes in the workplace.

I take my clinical and training work very seriously, but it does not stop me having a sense of humour, or stop me from enjoying many of the good things that life has to offer.

Member Organisation(s)

UKCP	- Last checked by Counselling Directory on: 30th June 2008