Sandra Millar
Every professional displayed on Counselling Directory has been independently verified by our team to ensure they have suitable credentials to practise.
This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
My areas of speciality are anxiety, depression, loss and bereavement.
I am an experienced telephone counselling and also see client face to face. I provide these services from my home working in a relaxed private environment working with people from all backgrounds, this is by appointment only service; a place where there is calmness and safety, where the client can talk about issues and know they are not being judged.
My reason for becoming a counsellor, a few years ago I was the client, "talking" to someone helped me to understand the issues I was experiencing and to see things in a different light, this gave me the passion to help others.
I studied a Higher National Diploma in Integrative Counselling, I work from a person centred basis, but work according to client needs. Since starting my counselling career I have worked in GP surgeries and with Cruse Bereavement Care.
I believe for the counselling process to work, the key is the relationship between the client and the counsellor, it is important to build a trusting relationship, to ensure this happens I use the Rogerian core conditions of respect, empathy and prizing.
I am aware of policies and procedures regarding equal opportunitie, child protection, risk assessment and of confidentiality. I regularly attend professional development courses on issues to enhance my professional practice.
Training, qualifications & experience
Higher National Diploma in Integrative Counselling
OCR certificate in Counselling Skills
CPCAB level 5 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Certificate
ABC Cruse Bereavement Counselling
Addressing Issues of Anxiety
Sudden and Traumatic Death
Addressing Suicided in Mental Health Services
Telephone Counselling
Anger Management Course
Workshop on Target Mood - Specific Skills Using Mind Over Mood 2
Workshop Working with Trauma
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
Photos & videos
Fees
Concessions offered for
Additional information
one to one counselling £35 for 50 mins counselling hour
concessionary rates available
telephone counselling £25 per counselling hour of 50 mins.
When I work
I will be unavailable until beginning of April 2022
Further information
Attending courses in Mental Health Issues and a further courses in Trauma
