Vera-Jill Abbott
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About me
By telephone or face to face, and Zoom counselling with me offers a 'safe place' to discuss and work through whatever is causing distress in your life.
Relationship difficulties, addiction, depression, anxiety, stress, or bereavement issues. Whatever is causing you difficulty in your world I will do my best to help you understand and work through what may be holding you back from enjoying a happier more fulfilling life.
We will work with your thoughts feelings and behaviour and anything impacting on you now from your past.
I am passionate about working with people, using my counselling skills and over a period of time observing how the distress and emotional pain become more manageable. When asked What is counselling I often describe it as a safely held place to unpack all that is overloading your mind, sifting through it with guidance letting go of some, then rearranging the rest so that your world starts to make sense and become manageable again.
My specialist areas are:
Issues surrounding Relationships, Bereavement & Mental illness.
I do not judge
I do not give advice
However, I do know how difficult it is to make that first contact. My sensitivity and caring nature I hope will make it easier for you.
Text, email or telephone.
I look forward to hearing from you and will answer any questions.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have gained most of my experience as a counsellor whilst working at a Medical Centre in Devon and as a Bereavement Support Worker at a Hospice in Cornwall and from a Mental Health Listening Line. I now work 4 days a week in Private Practice and 1 day with an agency, working with assessment and face to face client work.
Qualifications
Certificate in Transactional Analysis 1999
Certificate in counselling
Exeter University 2001
Adult Education Teaching Certificate 2002
ITEC Anatomy and Physiology &
Certificate of completion
Cornwall Hospice Care 2010
Diploma in Integrative Counselling 2011
Level 5 Diploma in CBT 2012
Adv Diploma Supervision (accred) NCS 2014
BACP Accreditation 2014
Critical Incident De-Briefing 2014
I am a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapists I abide by their code of ethical frame work for good practice.
I am passionate about Counselling and Psychotherapy and continuously study and learn all I can.
Member organisations
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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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Individuals £50 per session
Couples £75
Students and unemployed £45 per session (Concessionary rate)
Sessions 50 mins
Supervision £60 per session
Student Concessionary Rate £50.00
Appointments: Tuesday - Thursday inc
7.45pm - 6.00pm
My practice borders Devon & Cornwall. 3 miles from Launceston.
There is plenty of free parking and my clinic is disability friendly.
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