Claire Pope
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About me
Hi, I’m Claire, a professional and experienced person-centred counsellor. I am hugely passionate about listening to and helping people. I became a counsellor to help and support others as I had been helped and supported in previous years. Every time I work with clients I feel totally privileged that people let me in enough to share parts of their life experience and I'm honoured to go on self-discovery journeys with people. I am enormously passionate about what I do, to be there, to provide a listening ear, empathy and congruence is what I always strive to achieve.
Together with my business partner – Rachel Spence, we have a private practice – Buttercup counselling. We offer a warm and safe environment in which you can explore any issues you may be experiencing.
As a person-centred counsellor, I recognise that the relationship between client and therapist is crucial if the therapeutic relationship is going to be effective. At no time is any client under any obligation to continue work if they didn’t feel it effective.
I am a qualified Children and Young Peoples (CYP) Counsellor and am hugely passionate about the wellbeing and support that we can provide our Children and Young People, they are our future and deserve great support.
I am also a qualified integrative counselling Supervisor having completed a Level 6 Counselling Supervision Qualification. I am competent and happy to work with supervisee's at competitive rates.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a person-centred counsellor and a registered member of the BACP. I can, and do work within an integrative approach combining some aspects of CBT and protective behaviours, along with a solid core of person-centred work to meet individual clients needs if and when it is required. I have extensively trained in many areas of mental health and wellbeing since my Diploma in Counselling has completed. I work with adults and children, much of my current work is with adolescent mental health. I also complete annual safeguarding and child protection training as part of my work.
- Level 4 Diploma in Person Centred Counselling
- Level 5 Diploma in counselling children and young people
- Level 6 Certificate in integrative Counselling Supervision
- Level 2 Safeguarding, PREVENT and British Values
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Anxiety Management
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being
- Protective Behaviours
- Depression and Childhood Depression
- Working with survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
- Self-harm and suicide ideation
- Couples Counselling introductory course
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) introductory course
- Autism Awareness introductory course
- Anxiety and low self esteem
- Anger
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) introductory course
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) introductory course
- Working with Suicidal clients
- Criminal exploration and knife crime
- Domestic Abuse Awareness introductory course
- Social Networking / Cyber Bullying the effects on emotional health
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
If there is something you are seeking help and support for and you don't see that I have covered it above, please still feel free to email as there are many more complex cases that I can work with that may not always appear on the profile
Many thanks
Claire
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Counselling Sessions
£45 per session. Sessions are 50 minutes and I can offer long and short term work depending on individual requirements.
Any meetings required to attend for client purposes are charged at £20 per meeting (including any paperwork involved with that)
Any report writing for Client purposes are charged at £10 per report
Supervision Sessions
Qualified Counsellors £55 per session. Sessions are 90 minutes.
Trainee Counsellors £40 per session. Sessions are 1 hour
Other options are available and can be discussed on
Writing of Supervision reports for Trainee Counsellors
£20 for 50 hour supervision report
£15 for 100 hour supervision report
Fees are to be paid either by cash or bank transfer on the day of each session.
When I work
Weekday evening sessions available. Some weekday daytime sessions available too.
Further information
Counselling sessions are available on Fridays between the hours of 9am - 3pm. To book or enquire about a session please call 07927768690 or email me via buttercupcounselling@yahoo.com. If I am unable to take your call please do leave your name and telephone number and I will call you back.
Generally, clients attend sessions on a weekly basis, although I can offer different timescales depending on each individual's requirements.
After sessions and appointments are made it is the client’s responsibility to keep them.
Please note that I require 24 hours’ notice of cancellation, if this is not the case then sessions may still be charged.
My aim is to notify you well in advance of any personal leave in respect of sessions booked.
There is no obligation for clients to continue sessions if they feel that counselling is not for them at any point.
