Koula Refahi
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I work with both individuals and couples, bringing warmth, empathy, challenge and a wealth of therapeutic and life experience to my work. I offer a safe and confidential environment for clients to explore their anxieties, issues and struggles.
I support clients to look at historical and behavioural patterns. And to work toward understanding and gaining awareness of what is causing anxiety or keeping a person stuck or unfulfilled. We will discuss how to make changes that help support better awareness of what works in the present and gain a better sense of self-worth. To be less anxious and to be able to handle old habits which stand in the way of reaching full potential. I will work with the client to be curious about behaviour patterns and to learn how to be the one in charge of their life in a way that works for them.
I work with people from all religious backgrounds, sexual orientation, cultures and class systems. I support people to look at cultural and gender differences and issues both in personal and professional relationships in order to gain clarity and understanding.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a humanistic psychotherapist and counsellor on the BACP accredited register, MBACP. I am a Spectrum graduate and am on the continued professional development programme at Spectrum. I have completed and gained the following qualifications:
Spectrum Counselling Skills Course (OCR), Enhancing Counselling Skills Course,
Counselling Skills Course, Barnet, London.
Spectrum One Year Course in Psychotherapy, One Year Continuation Course,
Post-Graduate Course in Psychotherapy. Continued Post-Graduate annual seminars.
Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Spectrum Training. CPD - Continued Professional Development.
I have many years experience working in a therapeutic environment at Spectrum a Centre for personal and professional excellence.
I abide by the BACP and Spectrum's Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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
Community
I have experience of working at Spectrum for the past 28 years. Dealing with many clients, multiple-roles, boundary keeping and have a wealth of experience of working within a therapeutic community.
My work experience has been in diverse environments; I have worked in education both adult education and a college for overseas students. I worked in high-end property management as well as running training courses for teenagers seeking work, who left school without any formal qualifications.
Therapies offered
Fees
Additional information
My fee rates vary for individuals and couples and on whether its an hour or 50 minute session. I offer day time concessions for those on low income or not in employment.
When I work
MONDAY - FRIDAY
Further information
You can contact me either by phone on 07985 321704 or email at koula.refahi@yahoo.co.uk
I offer short and long-term therapy, phone, Skype and facetime sessions.
