Shauna Aura

Brighton Consulting Rooms 18a Clermont Road Brighton East Sussex BN1 6SG View map	The Dialogue Centre 24 Windlesham Road Brighton East Sussex BN1 3AG View map
07908720169 www.brightoncounsellor.co.uk Click here to Email me

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Need Couples counselling? Feeling anxious, suicidal or depressed? Confused, angry or frustrated? Need someone professional, empathic and warm to talk to? Looking for someone warm, intuitive and approachable?

I am a fully qualified and experienced Humanistic Counsellor and practice in Brighton and Hove. I offer a safe confidential and non-judgmental therapeutic relationship in which you can explore personal or difficult issues that may be causing you distress.

Feeling anxiety, pain or anger and coping with personal difficulties can feel unbearable, isolating and debilitating, sometimes these feelings can be relentless and it is difficult to see an end to your anxiety or pain. You can often feel very alone. It is important for you to find someone to trust, who feels safe enough to help you in understand difficult feelings, and who is not directly involved in your situation. Counselling can help you think about unhelpful or unhealthy relationship patterns, or support your recovery from trauma or loss and help you see your way through and learn to cope better with any number of complex and difficult situations. Working alongside a counsellor will help you to feel supported and not alone in your journey.

I offer an emotionally supportive, safe and calming atmosphere, I work predominately from a person centered perspective, I often draw upon psychoanalytical theory as I believe this can be helpful in thinking about problems and distress in the present that can sometimes be related to earlier experiences or relationships in our lives. Understanding this can help you in gaining insight and clarity into present difficulties, relationship patterns, confusing feelings and develop new coping mechanisms.

A professional and insightful counselling relationship established and built upon over a period of time help you to increase in self awareness, and provide you with an environment that may help to facilitate change. Person-centered counselling practice is a 'talking therapy', I will provide the core conditions and gently encourage you to explore issues on a deeper level without you feeling criticised or judged. Counselling is an opportunity to have the space, time and relationship to consider how you think about and respond to life's events and situations, past or present. It is an opportunity to explore options and different ways of coping. The experience of sharing your thoughts and feelings with another individual can relieve your feelings that you are entirely alone with your difficulties. You will be encouraged to work at your own pace and explore at levels which feel comfortable and manageable for you.

Maybe you feel that you need some space and time that is just “yours” to find out who you are or who you want to become, where you are going and how you are going to achieve goals or work toward change, and move away from the demands or pressures of others, or the stress of life. Having counselling is a space for you to reflect and feel supported in transitions of change or recovery, a place where you can explore issues which may be preventing you from getting the most out of your life and fulfilling your potential.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

I completed my Post-Graduate professional training at The University of Brighton, It has a reputation for both clinical and academic excellence and is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and affiliated to the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (UPCA).  The BACP  is the largest professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK and ensure the highest professional standards. This training requires a substantial amount of on-going clinical experience and supervision, theoretical understanding and personal psychotherapy.

In addition to my Post-Graduate Diploma in Person-centered counselling, I also hold a first degree and qualifications in Information, Advice and Guidance.

Humanistic counselling derives from Person ceneterd counselling which was devised by Carl Rogers. It is based on the assumption  that a client seeking help in the resolution of a problem they are experiencing, can enter into a relationship with a counsellor who is sufficiently accepting and permissive to allow the client to freely express any emotions and feelings. This will enable the client to come to terms with negative feelings, which may have caused emotional problems, and develop inner resources. The objective is for the client to become able to see himself as a person, with the power and freedom to change, rather than as an object. (BACP)

My continued professional development has allowed me to develop a focus on Psychoanalytic theory, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Art Therapy, I offer creative sessions with clients who wish to use art to explore their feelings. This further learning has equipped me to work in an integrative way- drawing upon theories and approaches to best suit your needs.

Brighton and Hove has one of the highest rates of completed suicides in the United Kingdom. I am fully trained in ASIST; Applied Suicide Intervention Skills training, which is the most widely used intervention in suicide prevention. As a fully trained professional, I am able to have a better awareness of those people who have thoughts of suicide, seek a shared understanding of the reasons for thoughts of suicide and the reasons for living, review current risk and develop a plan to increase safety from suicidal behaviour for an agreed amount of time and follow up on all safety commitments and accessing further help as needed.

I have many years of experience working in areas such as Police, Probation and court work, families and young people with multiple complex needs, women and children who are fleeing domestic violence, mentally disordered offenders, survivors of suicide and service management.

I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, (MBACP) This professional body has codes of ethics to which I adhere, and complaints procedures which ensure the highest standards of confidentiality and professional practice. I am fully insured. I have regular Supervision in Brighton.

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Adoption Issues
• Alcoholism
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Career Counselling
• Carers Support
• Child Related Issues
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
• Couples Counselling
• Debt Management
• Depression
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Drug Abuse
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Gambling
• Gender Identity
• Generalised Anxiety
• HIV/AIDS
• Infertility
• Internet Addiction
• Learning Difficulties
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Miscarriage
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Panic Disorder
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Postnatal Depression
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Relationship Issues
• Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Self Harm
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexual Issues
• Sexuality
• Smoking
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Other areas of counselling I deal with

I am able to work with many issues as listed but I have specialist experience working particularly with suicidal feelings, self harm, post traumatic stress and/or trauma, anxiety disorders, victims of crime, abuse in particular domestic violence and relationship issues, including couples counselling.

I have ten years experience in working with people with multiple complex needs.

Whether you are experiencing difficulties with an issue listed above or a combination of a number of them, I am able to work with you to find a way through your distress.

Therapies Offered

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

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative
  - Art Therapy/Art Psychotherapy

Fees

Usually, I work with clients on an open ended, long term basis, alternatively, I can offer time limited counselling focusing on one specific problem - this is generally for six to twelve sessions, this can be negotiated to best suit your needs. I offer couples counselling. When we have agreed what would be most helpful to you, we can then arrange a regular day and time each week to meet, as the counselling process needs a commitment to weekly sessions. I offer one to one, couples, online and telephone counselling.

Each session lasts for fifty minutes.

The initial consultation is free of charge, fees can be negotiated for those who are not working or on a low wage.

Further Information

I can see clients in the Brighton and Hove area- I am able to rent rooms in central, east or west Brighton and Hove, we can discuss your needs when we talk.

I can see clients in Brighton and Hove at Brighton Consulting Rooms, the consulting rooms are designed to create a private, calm, comfortable and relaxed environment. The consulting rooms are very close to Preston Park Train station and easily reached by many major bus routes. There is plenty of parking in the area.

http://www.brightonconsultingrooms.co.uk/

I can also see clienst at The Dialogue centre, which is a more central location in Brighton.

http://www.dialoguecentre.org.uk/consulting-rooms/


As well as daytime, I offer evening and weekend appointments, I am flexible in terms of times of sessions, and can accommodate client needs, this is something we can discuss together.

Get in touch to discuss how counselling with me can help, you can call me on 07908720169 or email me at shauna@brightoncounsellor.co.uk, please take a look at my website for further information: www.brightoncounsellor.co.uk

• Online, email or telephone counselling available

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