Karen Cook
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About me
Hello and thank you for taking a look at my profile. I've spent the past twenty three years counselling in private practice, at an NHS hospice and in the charitable sector, and now work in private practice only in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
For detailed information about my counselling practice, I would encourage you to visit my website which I hope will give you all the information you need to make an informed decision about whether you wish to contact me.
Training, qualifications & experience
It was during my 30s and whilst living in Cambridge that I decided to train as a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and over the years since qualifying, have integrated elements of other models in to my way of working such that I can offer my clients the most appropriate form of counselling for their needs.
I started counselling at Arthur Rank House Hospice in Cambridge and in private practice, and then in 2003 moved to Nottingham to take up a post at Treetops Hospice in Risley, Derbyshire, managing the Bereavement Support Service. Over the years since moving to the Midlands, I increasingly worked with private clients presenting with very wide-ranging issues, and now work solely in private practice having left the hospice in March 2013.
I moved to Grantham in December 2016 and now work with individuals and couples.
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.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £80.00
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fee for the initial assessment and each session is:
£60 for individuals (60 minutes)
£80 for relationship counselling (90 minutes)
When I work
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In respect of Introductory Calls, I offer these at 7pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, for 15 minutes.
Further information
I am now offering a blended service so am seeing people in-person in my therapy room and, in 2021, I became a Certified Online and Telephone Counsellor.
In respect of relationship work, it is quite usual for me to work with relationships other than partners; I typically work with parent/child relationships to facilitate the resolution of difficulties within the family unit.
