Angie Casali
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About me
We have all experienced times when life feels more challenging and we can feel anxious and lost. In my practice, I walk with you through therapy to begin to understand emotions you are experiencing as a form of guidance towards self care and compassion. With all the outside pressures that impact on personal and collective anxieties in the World, we often forget to give attention to our inner World, how we relate to ourselves is often neglected.
My therapeutic approach is to guide you towards exploring any present difficulties with a new curiosity and compassion. As an Integrative Counsellor I embrace many models and skills that help me to adapt my approach to match your unique individual needs. The models I use include Person Centred /Humanistic and Psychodynamic theories.
My aim is to provide a supportive and confidential space for you to feel empowered with a growing understanding of yourself and personal relationships. We can work on building new tools and a fresh awareness of your resilience. I offer guidance towards the value of self-reflection as you gain insight into the roots of your thinking and core self beliefs. I believe past experiences can significantly inform and shape our internal structures. Confidential discussions can bring into awareness the unconscious blocks that keep us stuck in unhealthy places.
About Therapy
Counselling provides a safe, confidential space so that personal difficulties can be gently unfolded and understood at a pace that you set. Each session is an opportunity to feel truly seen and heard in a way that can be deeply healing. This allows themes to surface and a shift towards coming to terms with any problems you are facing. This guides us to set therapeutic aims for therapy and to gently face possible difficulties.
In my experience, holding onto painful feelings and emotions is far more damaging than learning how to express, process and find freedom from psychological blocks. Healing requires understanding your pain with compassion and replacing this with knowledge, new behavioural tools and a new direction in life.
An initial phone consultation or appointment provides an opportunity for us to discuss how I can support you. There is no obligation to commit at this stage to ongoing work, however, if you decide you would like to continue, we agree upon suitable times to meet on either a short-term or ongoing basis in order to facilitate and give momentum to the therapeutic process. Regular contact provides a sense of security and continuity whilst you are engaged in therapy.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
- Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling - clinical training in Humanistic/Person centred and Psychodynamic approach
- EFT Accredited Practitioner (tapping) -
- Professional Certificate in Counselling Studies - clinical training in Humanistic/Person centred and Psychodynamic approach
- St Joseph Hospice counsellor - 2 years
- Fresh Start Psychotherapy counsellor - 2 years
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education - 13 years teaching and mentoring young people
- BA (Hons) in Humanities - University degree specialising in Sociology
- NHS Mental Health Centre - Part of emergency psychological support service referral team
Before training as a counsellor, I worked in educational settings where I monitored the emotional wellbeing of professionals and young adults, gaining a depth of knowledge regarding child development, behavioural difficulties and mental health issues.
Member organisations
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
Fees
£40.00 - £60.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free fifteen minute telephone consultation where we can discuss how we can work together.
Therapy sessions take place online.
Some reduced rates are available, get in touch for more information.
I offer short term and long term appointments.
When I work
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Practice hours are Monday - Thursday.
Further information
I have provided psychological support to people in a range of educational and counselling settings which include:
- Private practice
- Fresh Start Psychotherapies
- St Joseph's Hospice bereavement counselling service
- Hackney drug and Alcohol counselling service
- Lifeline
- Hackney Carers - working with parents
- Pupil Referral Centre
- Higher Education Establishments
- NHS Mental Health Support Services
