Roland Tolley
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About me
I am a highly experienced, qualified, BACP Senior Accredited counsellor, with over 15 years experience and I believe that building a strong counselling relationship is key to providing you with an environment in which you will feel comfortable to explore whatever is currently causing you concern.
Whatever your reason for seeking counselling is important to me.
About half my work is in general counselling on issues such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, bereavement and relationship issues including divorce, separation and affairs. In addition, in workplace issues including work-related stress, bullying and harassment.
The other half is working with trauma on issues including childhood abuse in its various forms, domestic abuse and sexual violence. I have had considerable additional training in these areas. I have worked successfully with most trauma conditions e.g. post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ,Complex PTSD (CPTSD) and many of the dissociative conditions up to and including DID. I have also worked with trauma-related conditions such as FND and dissociative seizures (NES).
I have worked for over 5 years both as a lead counsellor in GP surgeries, in a long term counselling service and for over 4 years at a specialist trauma service. I currently work in person with adults and those aged 17+.
If you have any particular questions about the therapy I offer then please feel free to contact me choosing a free introductory video or phone call via this site.
I am currently renting a room in the Beckenham chiropractor clinic as a base for my counselling work, where I moved to about a year ago following the redevelopment of my former premises. This allowed me to continue to offer counselling in Beckenham, where I have now worked for over 13 years in private practice.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Level 6).
- Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling.
- Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling.
- Certificate in Counselling Studies.
- Certificate in Counselling Skills.
- First Aid in the Workplace Certificate.
- Enhanced DBS held.
- CBT workshops
- Trauma workshops (including PTSD, Complex PTSD, DID and more).
I began working as a student counsellor in May 2008 and became a qualified counsellor in 2009. I became Accredited in 2013 and Senior Accredited in 2018. I qualified as a supervisor in 2019 and worked as a Group Supervisor for about a year for a large counselling service in West London.
I have run workshops for secondary school students in schools and colleges and for counsellors and other professionals.
Member organisations
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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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Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial in-person session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My sessions are 50 minutes long. I offer a limited number of subsidised daytime appointments for adults and young people aged 17+ in school or full-time education to undergraduate level and to those unemployed owing to mental or physical health difficulties.
I offer a free half hour initial in person meeting to decide if we are compatible in working together (unless you have used the free introductory call or video) or may begin immediately with an initial assessment session. This session will last upto about 70 minutes but will be charged at the same rate as my normal session rate.
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Further information
I am an integrative therapist combining person-centred, psychodynamic and CBT approaches in my work and, if working with trauma, using this within a standard trauma framework of stabilisation, processing and integration.
