Anthony Hall-Shaw, Dip Couns (Rus), Dip Couns, PGCert, MBACP (accred.), MA

Blackpool Lancashire FY4
07990 500040 www.worryguru.com Click here to Email me

Profile

Offering counselling & psychotherapy in the North of England. 
I am a person-centred counsellor who offers cognitive behavioural interventions (CBT) and EMDR. 

HOME VISITS also available by arrangement.  Call 07990 500040 for details. 

An excerpt from my CV ...

Mr Anthony Hall-Shaw has undertaken counselling and psychotherapy work since 2004.His work mainly involves Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Person-Centred Counselling, and EMDR. He undertakes an average of 200 instructions per year, specializing in anxiety, phobias, critical incident stress debriefing. In conjunction with The Psychology Service, he has helped to prepare numerous medico-legal reports and has clinics throughout the North of England, predominantly Manchester & Blackpool.  HOME VISITS are available by arrangement.

In late 2010, Anthony Hall-Shaw had his first book published: “Broken Britain” (in the author name of Anthony King), which offers counselling perspectives and solutions, addressing the state of living in 21st Century Britain. A crossover psychology and self-help book.  AK has also written for BACP’s ‘Therapy Today’ journal as well as contributing to ITV & Channel 5’s national television ‘agony’ shows and local press articles.                                 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Training, Qualifications & Experience

My counselling training has taken place during the last twelve years and therefore fresh & current ...  

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

C&G 7307 FE Teacher’s Certificate1999Tameside College (Manchester)

Diploma in Counselling2002Rusland College (Bath)

Diploma in Counselling (BACP accred.)2004Manchester College of Arts/tech..

Advanced Certificate in CBT2006University of Central Lancashire

Post Grad Cert in Counselling2006University of Central Lancashire

EMDR (Level 1 & Interm.)2007University of Manchester

Master of Arts degree (counselling)2008University of Manchester

MBACP accreditation2009Accredited member of BACP

Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy2010University of Manchester (psychiatry)

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

Accredited member of British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

UKRCP registered independent counsellor & psychotherapist

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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Certificate in Transactional Analysis (TA101), Health & Safety Cert, Deaf Awareness cert, ‘Dance with life’ experiential counselling certificate (level 3)

SHORT COURSES:
Play Therapy (2002),
Attachment, Brain function and Practice (2005),
Understanding anxiety and managing it without drugs (2005),
Working with dreams and Jungian therapy (2006),
Working therapeutically with OCD (2009),
Sexual Abuse Workshop (2009),
Managing Pain with CBT (2009),
Researching counsellor training (2009),
Making sense of qualitative data (2009),
Social research & counselling (2009),
Reflexivity in counselling (2009), 
HIV Counselling (2009),
Critical enquiry counselling (2009),
Safeguarding Young Adults (2010),
Delivering Psychological interventions via telephone (2010),
Drugs Now (2010), T
he science & practice of a transdiagnostic person-centred ultra-cognitive therapy (2010),
Working with people who self-harm (2010),
Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (2010).

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Alcoholism
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Anxiety
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Career Counselling
• Child Related Issues
• Couples Counselling
• Dependent Personality Disorder
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Gender Identity
• Generalised Anxiety
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Personality Disorders
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Pre-nuptial Counselling
• Relationship Issues
• Self Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Smoking
• Stress

Therapies Offered

• Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
  - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Psychoanalytical and Psychodynamic
  - Psychodynamic Therapy

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling
  - Existential Therapy

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative
  - EMDR

Fees

Fees start at £25 per hour if clients come to see me. 
I offer slightly reduced fees for students (with student card/proof of ID)

If you would like to arrange a home visit, I usually add a nominal extra amount to cover time & petrol ... depending on the journey, time & distance.   

Further Information

Counselling can be a big decision to make.  I offer new prospective clients to meet together as a 'one-off' to see if the rapport between us works.  This first meeting is for about an hour or less (sessions are usually an hour long), and there is no obligation to return.  In other words, you try one session of counselling and then decide whether to proceed. 

• Online, email or telephone counselling available

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