Janet Astle Senior Practitioner, Psychotherapy & Coaching - Member NCS (Accred)

Training, qualifications & experience

Experience ~ To include over 35 Years in Healthcare & WellBeing

Voluntary Work & Experience:

• Cruse Bereavement Care - Offering 1 - 1 Counselling to children and adults within their own home, working with issues around grief and loss. Later Supervision training leading to supervision of other volunteers.

• Checkpoint (Children's Society) Working in outreach destinations such as GP surgeries and Brixham Youth Enquiry offering 1 - 1 counselling to young adults with varying issues from bullying, abuse, alcohol & drug use to relationships.

• South Devon Women's Aid offering 1 - 1 counselling to women with varying issues around loss, bullying and domestic violence.

• Checkpoint group work "Esteem" with young adults exploring and building confidence and self-esteem.

• Children and Families in Grief - Working with families that have experienced a significant loss.

Qualifications:

• BTEC D32 33 Assessors Award

• NEBS Management Certificate

• Cruse Bereavement Care Bereavement Counselling Skills

• Advanced Diploma (Level 4) Therapeutic Counselling

• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

• Cruse Bereavement Care Accreditation

• Diploma in Hypnotherapy

• Sand Play Therapy

• Level 6 Diploma in Body Psychotherapy

• Diploma in Counselling Supervision

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Grief and Loss:

I specialise in grief and loss which we often experience with an ending of some kind or an unexpected ooutcome. We can experience loss in all areas of life and often don't realise this may be what's happening.

For example:

Self esteem, confidence, respect & loss of Self identity

Innocence, childhood, status, home, role, way of life, relationship, redundancy

Also many other things which can affect us in a similar way to an actual death.

Whatever concern Clients may bring at some stage, often there is some grief connected to loss within their lives.

Further information

How it works:

If you have read the above and want to know more.....

• You contact me or give me details on how to contact you if that is preferable
  
  
• You take advantage of the free consultation whilst on the phone, which gives opportunity for you to ask questions. You can outline the concern or problem you want help with and we discuss a way of working together and agree to continue or not.
  You may also wish to go away and think about whether or not you want to continue. and to see if we feel comfortable in working together to meet your needs.

• You visit my practice which is based in Brixham and we complete a full assessment. Which includes what it is you wish to gain overall from working with me. During the assessment I will ask questions and write, you simply talk to help me fill out the form and we book a block of 4 - 6 sessions to continue our working together.

If you have any further questions then please do get in touch.

You will note my experience and qualifications here, if you need updates to that please contact me by email.

My practice is easily accessible and sits on the number 17 bus route, there is also on street parking available

There is sloping disabled access to my practice followed by 2 small steps at intervals within, however this may be unsuitable for a wheelchair user.

Thank you for reading and I wish you well...