Chris Bristow

Chris Bristow 25 St Albans Road Sandridge St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 9LE View map
tel: (hme) 01727 857722 (mb) 07939 529929 web: www.workforchange.co.uk Click here to Email me

Profile

I am an experienced relationship counsellor who also specialises in psychosexual therapy, couples counselling and eating disorders.

I have helped many individuals and couples to feel empowered enough to make positive changes for themselves and thus reach greater fulfilment in their lives.

I offer a warm and genuine relationship to clients and always respects individual values, personal choice, resources, culture, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

I work integratively by utilising skills and techniques that I have developed through studying across the range of therapeutic modalities including Psychodynamic, Person Centred and Cognitive Behavioural.

I am a member of both the Experienced Counsellor Network and Couples Counselling Network.

I joined Relate seven years ago and, after completing initial eclectic training as a relationship counsellor, went on to study Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) as an integral part of Relate�s psychosexual therapy (PST) Diploma course, held at Herbert Gray College, Rugby.

I completed the PST Diploma in 2004 and still works for Relate Herts Central branch, based in St Albans, as a remedial counsellor and sex therapist.

As a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy (BASRT) I am bound by the professional code of ethics of both organisations.

I am a member of the Association for Independent Practitioners and I hold full professional indemnity and public liability insurance.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

National Centre for Eating Disorders, Esher, Surrey: Essential Obesity: Psychological Approaches course completed September 07;

Nutritional Interventions for Eating Disorders course completed June 07;

Diploma course in Practitioner Skills for Eating Disorders completed November 2006. Diploma granted June 2007 after written submission.

Relate Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy; Herbert Gray College, Rugby, September 2002.

Relate Certificate in Couple Counselling; Herbert Gray College, Rugby, September 2000.

Psychodynamic counselling foundation course; Westminster Pastoral Foundation, St Albans, 1995.

ITEC certificate in anatomy, physiology and massage,West London School of Massage, Bayswater, 1990.