Liz Smith, MBACP (Snr Accred), UKRCP Registered Independent Counsellor

Fillongley Coventry Warwickshire CV7
07931 510886 www.coleshillcounsellingservice.co.uk Click here to Email me

Profile

I am an experienced counsellor and supervisor, working in private practice in Warwickshire and offering a professional, confidential, and respectful service to individuals, young people, and couples who would like to access counselling.

I work from a Person Centred model, and if you would like to find out more about me, or what I am able to offer, please feel free to contact me with no obligation. Daytime,Evening and Weekend appointments available.

Discreet Private location with car parking.

I also work as a trainer & lecturer (offering cpcab approved counselling courses near Birmingham) information available at: www.coleshillcounsellingservice.co.uk. I also offer bespoke training.

I specialise in supporting individuals with visual perceptual difficulties and I am a Certified Irlen Screener: www.irlen-coventry.co.uk 

I welcome any enquiries in respect of these areas.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Senior Accreditation with British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy(BACP)
UKRC Registered Independent Counsellor 
QTLS, Diploma in Teaching and Learning - Warwick University
Certified Irlen Screener - Irlen Institute, America

European Diploma in Humanistic Counselling
Advanced Certificate in Humanistic Counselling
Certificate in Rogerian Counselling

Additional Short Courses and Training:Attachment, Safeguarding Young People, confidentiality and Record Keeping, Working at Relational Depth,Counselling Victims of Crime: pre trial therapy with children and vulnerable people, Equality and Diversity, Working with people who self harm, Psychopathology, Legal Issues related to Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People, DFEE Training Programme for Learning Mentors, Working with metaphor in Counselling, Child Protection and the Childrens Act

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• ADHD
• Adoption Issues
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Alcoholism
• Anger Management
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Anxiety
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Bereavement
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Career Counselling
• Child Related Issues
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
• Couples Counselling
• Dementia
• Depression
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Family Issues
• Gender Identity
• Generalised Anxiety
• HIV/AIDS
• Infertility
• Learning Difficulties
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• 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
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Tourettes Syndrome
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Therapies Offered

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling

Fees

£45 per session for private individual counselling (50 minutes)

£50 per session for private couple counselling (1 hour)

£45 per hour for private supervision

Information available on request for consultancy, training, or local authority work.

Further Information

Taking the first step of approaching a counsellor can be a big one for many reasons. You are welcome to arrange an initial appointment with me, giving you chance to meet me before committing to any further sessions, and giving me a chance to hear what it is that you would like to achieve from counselling. I offer short term work or long term work, and this depends very much on what you would like to change or achieve. I do charge for this first session.

For some people a life event or current situation such as a recent bereavement or relationship breakdown may be what is troubling them, and for others it may be a much more complicated set of events or a series of events over many years that has led them to seek support. Sometimes a single event leads to a re opening of past events, it is different for everyone, and everyone's expectations of therapy or counselling will differ.

Counselling is not always comfortable or easy, and can be challenging and uncomfortable at times. I will not offer you false hope or expectations about what we can achieve together, and if I do not think I am the best person to support you I will explain this and help you to find more specialist or appropriate support. If we do decide to work together much of the outcome will be down to whether you are ready to make changes or want to make changes, as well as what I can offer to you as your counsellor.

Every therapist has a particular area of interest or experience or specialism, and mine is working with young people, particularly around adolescence, and people using self harm & eating disorders as a way of coping with the world. I am also passionate about working with the impact of feeling, or being perceived as different, this includes a wide range of experience such as colour, disability, gender, sexuality, and many less obvious areas of difference that can cause much distress. I also offer training in this area.

If you would like to arrange an initial session with no obligation to book further sessions, please call me. If I am unable to answer the call immediately, I will call you back as soon as possible, usually within a few hours.  

• Supervision available (view supervision profile)

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