Chris Craddy MBACP Senior Accredited

Barton Under Needwood Burton On Trent Staffs DE13 8AB View map
01283 713692 / 07946 754837 www.chriscraddycounselling.co.uk Click here to Email me

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Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Integrative Psychotherapy. I see both individuals and couples, and offer both short and long-term therapy.  I am also a very experienced Counselling Supervisor and a trained Mediator, currently providing an ad hoc mediation service for employees within a major local authority.

I am a highly qualified practitioner with over 15 years experience in a number of settings, including the NHS, Workplace Occupational Health Departments, Alcohol Agencies, Employee Assistance Programmes and, for the last 10 years, private independent practice. I have been accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) since 1999. I am also a registered therapist with a leading private healthcare provider, so if you have private healthcare, check your entitlement.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy 2000
BACP Accreditation 1999
PG Dip (Distinction) Counselling and Psychotherapy 1999
Dip Counselling 1995
BSc Hons Psychology 1975

Cert Counselling Supervision 2001

I also have qualifications in EMDR and Mediation, and undertake regular Continuing Professional Development.

Prior to training as a counsellor in the early 1990s, I worked as a Special Needs teacher for 19 years.

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Alcoholism
• Anger Management
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Anxiety
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Bereavement
• Binge Eating Disorder
• 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
• Learning Difficulties
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Paranoid Personality Disorder
• Personality Disorders
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Pre-nuptial Counselling
• Relationship Issues
• Schizoid Personality Disorder
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder
• Self Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexual Issues
• Sexuality
• Smoking
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Tourettes Syndrome
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Therapies Offered

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

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling
  - Existential Therapy

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative
  - EMDR

Fees

£40 per hour session (£45 from 5pm or at weekends)

Some concessions in cases of financial hardship.

Further Information

• I have recent and extensive experience of working with clients with, among other things, the following issues :
  
  
• Abuse issues
• Addiction
• Anger
• Assertiveness issues
• Depression
• Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously called Multiple Personality Disorder)
• Fear of being "found out" if others see behind the "mask"
• Flashbacks
• General dissatisfaction or unhappiness
• Habit control (eg alcohol use, diet, smoking)
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Relationship issues
• Self esteem issues
• Self harm
• Sexual problems
• Sexuality
• Spirituality and/or faith issues
• Stress

• Supervision available (view supervision profile)

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