Silverset

Hello, a warm welcome to you. My name is Sharon, and I am a qualified Humanistic Integrative Counsellor/Therapist and Clinical Integrative Supervisor at Silverset Counselling Service (SCS). This means that we work with clients who are experiencing a range of issues, using a Humanistic Integrative approach: CBT, Gestalt, Person-centred, Psychodynamic, Existential, and TA. We adhere to the BACP ethical framework of good practice and abide by the ACC professional code of ethics.

If you are hurting, worried, anxious, fearful, feeling overburdened with life’s problems, lonely or distressed, or just searching for answers, then we believe counselling can help you.

You will be given space to share what’s going on in your life:

... to share your story
... to explore your thoughts and feelings, in a safe environment
... to explore pressing issues
... to set goals and to work toward them

We work with adults, young people, and the elderly, offering services in:

• Long-term or short-term counselling therapy
• Crisis listening sessions
• Coaching / mentoring sessions

We conduct online counselling safely and confidentially: Google or Skype video call, phone, and online chat counselling sessions are also available. Face-to-face counselling is also available in Lewisham. Each session will last 50 minutes, once a week, over an arranged period, and will start and end on time. If you decide that counselling is what you require, you will be allotted your own space to share at your own pace.

(WE NOW OFFER FACE-TO-FACE SESSIONS IN LEWISHAM!)

Our aim is to provide you with a trustworthy and confidential opportunity, for you to explore your thoughts and feelings in a secure environment. Your needs come first, and therefore you will be helped through this process without judgement or giving advice. We will help you work towards self-awareness and help to promote change, with clarity of thought and positive decisions.

During therapy, you will work on building your self-esteem and self-confidence. You are responsible for yourself, and your own actions, and you have the freedom of choice. You will be allowed to work through issues in your own time, and you will be helped to explore and work them through.

All work done with you will remain confidential, but we attend monthly supervision, where we discuss our clients work with a qualified supervisor. However, to ensure confidentiality, clients are identified by using their initials or first name only.

Subsequently, we attend ongoing professional training and CPD, for continuous counselling competency.

Face-to-face counselling therapy is now available within the Lewisham area. We also offer counselling services remotely, to the following areas within Southeast London and further afield - the UK and Online.

(WE NOW OFFER FACE-TO-FACE SESSIONS IN LEWISHAM!)

The Practice is in Lewisham, within Southeast London, SE13.

Alternatively, you can contact us for more information about video call, phone, or online counselling (chat/email) which may suit your needs, as some clients may find that expressing concerns and/or questions in writing, is better for them and helps to organise and focus on a particular problem.

Please feel free to contact us with your inquiries or to book an initial 45 mins assessment.
You can expect to receive a detailed response within 24-48 hrs of your initial contact.

(WE NOW OFFER FACE-TO-FACE SESSIONS IN LEWISHAM!)

(For Supervision information, please see my Supervision Profile)

Other interests / services:

• Clinical Supervision (for individuals & groups): Low-cost supervision service offered to trainees and qualified therapists and other caring professionals, to help with knowledge and skills for the development and improvement of care.
• Group Support
• Coaching & mentoring
• Christian counselling/therapy
• Multicultural counselling (inclusive of all backgrounds/culture)

FOR YOUR INFORMATION (FYI):
People who would like to talk to someone about their circumstances, might think twice about approaching a professional, because of the stigma associated with mental health issues.
However, the need to talk about your situation is not ill mental health. Instead, it is an opportunity to spend time with someone qualified, who is ready to listen and help you work out issues in your life, in a safe and confidential environment.
Therefore, view this as an opportunity for positive change, for better choices and for progress in your life. Celebrities, royals, and famous people seek help, because they are only human, just like you and me.
So please be encouraged and phone, email, or text me today to get the help that you need, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Therapy fees are priced between £50.00 to £75.00 per counselling session (50 mins) (sliding scale payment basis for individuals and families).
However, during the initial 45 mins assessment, based on your income and circumstances, an agreement can be made to pay only what you can realistically afford, for each consecutive session.
There is a one-off low-cost fee for the initial assessment (45 mins) £39.50. (£32.50 for those on benefits or have financial difficulties)
Crisis Listening / Coaching / Mentoring is £49.50 (50 mins).

The fee for trainee psychotherapists and counsellors £40.00 per session. This is negotiable according to income and circumstances.

Clinical Supervision fee (Qualified Therapists) £55.00

{All fees are based on a concessionary sliding scale}.

Please contact me for further information: 0784 762 0103 info@silversetcounselling.com

Personal attributes/skills used during therapy:

• Acceptance
• Active listening/attentive
• Being impartial and non-judgmental
• Caring/friendly manner
• Confidentiality
• Consideration for others
• Communicative
• Empathic understanding
• Empowering
• Encouraging
• Feelings and emotions considered
• Good rapport
• Help with goal setting
• Optimism
• Patient and kind
• Reliable
• Respecting others
• Sincerity
• Trustworthy
• Unconditional Positive Regard
• Valuing others

Our specialty: Helping clients find their true purpose in life, building on their self-worth, self-esteem, self-belief, self-confidence; discovering & maintaining meaningful and lasting relationship with self and others.

A more fulfilling and satisfactory life is possible, once issues and goals are sorted out, using a range of relevant therapeutic skills and tools to identify and draw out clients' inner resources (within their own space and time).