Geraldine Painter
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About me
I offer counselling to individuals, providing a confidential and safe space to explore your thoughts and feelings. My aim is to work together with you to understand you and your experiences, and how these may have contributed to your life, or thrown up difficulties and challenges. This in turn may help may help to provide a new perspective for the future.
My therapeutic style is integrative, with a base of the humanistic approach. I draw from a number of theoretical approaches so that I may work with what best suits you, and I strongly believe that the relationship that develops between counsellor and client is key. I offer my clients a warm, supportive, non-judgemental relationship through which they may hopefully gain a deeper insight into themselves, and therefore see opportunity for change.
Personal and professional development are important aspects of my work and ongoing training is a key part of this development. I worked as a volunteer at two counselling agencies in the Cotswolds throughout my training and continued to do so post-qualifying as well as working in my own private practice, this enabled me to work with clients with varying backgrounds and a broad range of issues.
I am experienced in working with young people and adults on a one to one basis, and have a special interest in points of transition or change and how this may throw up challenges in my clients’ lives.
I am an accredited, registered member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and thus abide by their ethics and standards.
My practice is based face to face in Falmouth, Cornwall and online on Zoom.
Depending on individual need, I offer both short and long term counselling, and have a limited number of low-cost places available.
Please feel free to contact me with any further questions, I would be very happy to hear from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Bachelor of Social Sciences (Sociology & Psychology)
Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling from BCPC
Accredited Member of BACP
Member organisations
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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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 - £55.00
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Please feel free to call or email me to discuss your individual circumstances.
Depending on individual need, I offer both short and long term counselling.
My usual rate per daytime session (50 minutes) is £50, and evening sessions are £55, however I do have a limited number of low cost places available, and I would be happy to discuss this with you. I do not charge for the initial session.
Further information
I offer face to face and online counselling sessions, please call or email me, I'd be happy to discuss.
