Sarah Worley MBACP(Accred) UKRCP Reg. ACTO

Cardiff CF23
07817149902 Click here to Email me

Profile

I am a fully qualified counsellor, with thirteen years experience in both the voluntary and public sector.  I offer individual and couples therapy, specialising in online counselling; via email, instant messaging or webcam. Issues that I work with include stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, bereavement, anger management, substance misuse, and trauma and abuse.

My counselling is based on a Humanistic-Existential approach, which recognises that we all need to find our own meaning and path in life.  I focus on helping you develop your self-awareness, to understand how you relate to yourself and the world around you.  I work flexibly with the needs of the individual client, integrating appropriately from other counselling approaches; principally Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy.  I will work with you to identify your strengths, challenge unhelpful thinking cycles, and utilise your inner resources to develop new coping strategies and move forward in a more positive direction.  I find the use of imagery powerful in helping you understand your emotions and find a way forward.  As, by focusing solely on spoken or written words, the individual meaning and experience of that feeling can be more difficult to describe and understand.  Whereas a unique image can bring a tangibility and solidity to that emotion, helping you to find a new understand, and a different way to approach your difficulties.

Each client is, of course, unique, and it is important that I acknowledge and work with the diversity within the counselling relationship, as I aim to create a safe, non-judgemental, trusting therapeutic space.  We will work collaboratively to help you express yourselves fully, and reflect on and explore your issues.

I will have a regular review with you, at around the 6th session, to enable you to reflect on the counselling process, and decide whether you have got everything you need from counselling, or whether you feel more sessions would help.

I also provide supervision, having eight years experience supervising a mixture of student and qualified counsellors.

I provide sessions at my home address in a room used exclusively for counselling, in which I have tried to make as comfortable and relaxed an environment as possible.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

I originally qualified as a counsellor in 1999, completing my Masters in Counselling in 2006. I am accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, registered with the UK Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, and a member of the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online. My experience has been within both the voluntary and public sector. I have ten years experience in the substance misuse field and thirteen years experience with employee counselling.  For the past two and a half years I have been working at Cardiff University, counselling students and staff.

I have seven years experience supervising counsellors, particularly those going through their counselling training. I also have eleven years experience writing and delivering workshops on stress and anxiety, insomnia, anger management; and teaching on a counselling diploma course.

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Adoption Issues
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Alcoholism
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Bereavement
• Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Career Counselling
• Child Related Issues
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
• Couples Counselling
• Depression
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Drug Abuse
• Emotional Abuse
• Gambling
• Gender Identity
• Generalised Anxiety
• Internet Addiction
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Panic Disorder
• Personality Disorders
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Postnatal Depression
• Pre-nuptial Counselling
• Relationship Issues
• Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Self Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Smoking
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Therapies Offered

• Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
  - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling
  - Gestalt Therapy
  - Transactional Analysis
  - Existential Therapy

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative

Fees

The initial consultation is £20 to allow you the opportunity to decide whether I am the right counsellor for you, and for us to decide what you want to focus on, and get from your counselling. Thereafter I charge £40 for face to face individual sessions, £50 for couples work, and £35 for online counselling.

For supervision I charge £30 for student counsellors and £40 for qualified

Further Information

• Online, email or telephone counselling available

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