Gabrielle Oliver
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About me
I am an experienced and approachable psychotherapist and art therapist.
Currently working online using Zoom, I offer counselling and psychotherapy in a safe and relaxed setting of confidentiality and trust where you are free to talk openly and honestly about the things that are troubling you.
I work with clients who have a range of issues from anxiety, panic attacks and depression, to issues around anger management, addictive behaviours, difficult work situations, relationship issues, bereavement, illness and other experiences.
These difficulties may take the form of:
- Anxiety, panic or depression
- Seeing no future
- Unexplained feelings in daily life
- Overwhelming emotions
- Relationships that go wrong
- Repeated patterns of self destructive behaviour
- Situations where others are affected
Talking Therapy
The therapeutic space ensures that what you say is treated non-judgementally, and with sensivity, respect, and thoughtfulness.
In counselling I offer you the opportunity to make sense of your experiences, to reflect on your current life, and to consider your thoughts, feelings, behaviours and responses to situations and events that are making you the person you are today.
Gaining a perspective on our lives gives us an awareness and understanding of ourselves from which choices towards change can occur. Sometimes this process is painful and I will support you with this. Sometimes knowing who you are, gives you the compassion, and the freedom to accept yourself and open up a more emotionally healthy future.
Integrative Psychotherapy is a talking therapy that takes account of theories of psychology, therapeutic methods, and current developmental theory.
Art Therapy
When words are difficult Art offers a means to access feelings and emotions non-verbally. I work as an art therapist with individuals when specifically requested.
Training, qualifications & experience
MSc Integrative Psychotherapy
Clinical Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy (Metanoia)
Advanced Diploma Art Psychotherapy
PG Dip Art Therapy (1985)
PG Cert Working with Groups
Member organisations
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
Additional information
£40
When I work
In the Covid-19 lockdown, I am currently working remotely using FaceTime, Skype or Zoom.
