Brigitte Pepper MBACP(accred), UKRCP Reg.Ind. Counsellor/Psychotherapist

York YO23
07969379476 www.bapcounsellingyork.co.uk Click here to Email me

Profile

I offer compassionate and responsive therapy in my practice near the station in York. My approach is dynamic and exploratory,drawing on humanistic, interpersonal and psychodynamic approaches within a relational framework.

Therapy can help you to explore thoughts and feelings and consider alternatives. You may be suffering from specific symptoms or problems such as low self esteem, anxiety or depression or be generally confused about what you are feeling. You may be worried about how you get on with people or feel disconnected or isolated. By looking at your current situation and sometimes past experience and helping you with your feelings and ways of thinking (including about the therapy relationship), you may come to see yourself and your problems differently.

I work long term and short term; with specific issues as well as with feelings that are hard to define; with individuals, couples and groups.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Training and Qualifications

MBACP (accred) Counsellor/Psychotherapist
UKRCP Reg. Ind. Counsellor/Psychotherapist

Graduate Diploma Counselling/Psychotherapy (Distinction). York St John University, 2009
Graduate Certificate in Group Analysis. IGA/Birkbeck University (Distinction)
IGA / York Groupwork Foundation course Group Analysis
Attachment training
Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy training
Professional development courses in Gestalt therapy,trauma and dissociation, the dynamics of attachment, working with minorities and working with depression.

B.Ed. (Hons), 1981
M.A. Leeds, 1983

Experience

20+ years in education
Counselling and psychotherapy since 2007
Private practitioner 2+years
Associate Therapist at The Tuke Centre (a private mental health organisation) 2008-2010
Associate Counsellor at Castlegate for Young people (2007-ongoing)
Experience of fostering and adoption

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Adoption Issues
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Alcoholism
• Anger Management
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Anxiety
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Bereavement
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Bullying
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
• Couples Counselling
• Dependent Personality Disorder
• Depression
• Domestic Violence
• Drug Abuse
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Gambling
• Gender Identity
• Generalised Anxiety
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
• Internet Addiction
• 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)
• Postnatal Depression
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Relationship Issues
• Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Self Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Smoking
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Gender issues,anger management, medically unexplained symptoms, IBS, chronic fatigue syndrome.

Therapies Offered

• Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
  - Cognitive Therapy

• Psychoanalytical and Psychodynamic
  - Psychodynamic Therapy

• Humanistic Therapies
• Other Therapies
  - Integrative

Fees

£40 per hour for initial assessment and ongoing sessions. Concessions available.

Further Information

Parking available. 5 minutes from York Station and on a major bus route

• Online, email or telephone counselling available

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