Daphne Chalk-Birdsall
About me
I have 20 years of experience in my private practice that provides a quiet, safe, confidential space to unburden yourself. I am there to listen, try to understand and to help you make sense of things.
- I belong to the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registered with their Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College
- I belong to the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
- I belong to The Foundation of Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC) as a alumni member of WPF Therapy training
- My qualifications and experience help me to attend, in depth, to a wide range of difficulties including relationship issues, depression, anxiety, shame, guilt, isolation and loneliness
- Talking about your concerns may be your first step, to make sense of something that keeps bothering you and preventing you enjoying your life
I offer weekly sessions for therapy in private hire room in The Gestalt Centre, 15-23 St. Pancras Way, London, NW1 0PT on Thursday and in my Private Practice, Broadstairs, Kent Monday am or Friday am
I also offer time limited sessions (6-12 sessions) or longer 'open ended' therapy depending on your need
The Gestalt Couples and Relationship Course 2019-2020
Debbie Winterbourne's Level 1 Couples Counselling Course 2019
Training, qualifications & experience
I qualified from WPF Therapy as a Pyschodynamic Counsellor and I am in private practice. I have over twenty years experience.
I was successfully re-accredited by UKCP in February 2018.
I completed the Tavistock and Portman Clinic year course on Understanding Trauma http://www.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/understandingtrauma
I am enjoy FutureLearn MOOC e.g. "Good brain, bad brain: basics" and BACP online CPD courses.
Each year I complete at least 30 hours Continuing Profesional Development (CPD) some of which is with The Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC) Saturday seminar series 2019-2020
I attend ongoing FPC clinical practice, supervision, current awareness of new therapeutic, medical research, UKCP conferences and lectures. http://www.thefpc.org.uk/home
I was a member of the FPC Members Support Committee
FPC annual conference 2016
ATSAC annual conference 2018
Gestalt Centre Certificate Couples and Relationship Counselling September 2019 - ongoing
COVID-19: PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT, WELLBEING AND MENTAL HEALTH MAUDSLEY LEARNING AND THE TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST FutureLearn Online course certificate July 2020
BA (Hons.) English Studies - Polytechnic of North London (London metropolitan university)
Pg.Dip. (Psychodynamic Counselling) Roehamptom University
Previously a Chartered Librarian and member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (MCILIP). I worked in London HE for forty years.
Psychodynamic Counsellor I trained at WPF Therapy (Roehampton University & BACP accredited course) part time for 5 years and qualified in 2003 at WPF current address: 23 Magdalen Street, London SE1 2EN
Member of UK Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered 08159622
Member of The Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC) 2526
Member of British Council of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) 561950
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy FHEA 2007 (Accredited Practitioner in ILThe 2002)
SEDA qualifications 2017 leading to MA LThe
Chartered Librarian of The Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals since 1972 - 2016 MCILIP 29017 (London University, Senate House Library and London Metropolitan University
The Gestalt Couples and Relationship Course 2019-2020
Debbie Winterbourne's Level 1 Couples Counselling Course 2019
COVID-19: PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT, WELLBEING AND MENTAL HEALTH MAUDSLEY LEARNING AND THE TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST 2020
Member organisations
Registered / Accredited
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.
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
UK Council for Psychotherapy
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Accredited Register Scheme
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Online therapy due to COVID 19
Trauma, guilt and shame are linked and are areas I have experience of. I
recently completed the 1 year Tavistock and Portman Clinic year course on Understanding Trauma (D18) and attended 2013 Conference on Trauma
http://www.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/understandingtrauma
Relationship problems with family, lovers, husbands, children, siblings and lack of relationship
I currently support CBT therapists working in NHS settings as well as students as trainee therapists for Gestalt counselling, Psychodynamic psychotherapy, play therapy, art therapy, complimentary healing therapies and mind/body specialists and may offer reduced fees depending on your income.
I support FE/HE young students in my private practice with undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Anxiety about work, lack of work, fear of debt, redundancy and loss of income concerns.
There is space for exploring your creativity, playfulness, to change and enjoy your life.
London Metropolitan University MA LThe 2016-17.
Embedding Learning Technologies (SEDA)
Applying Learning Technologies (SEDA)
Addiction and compulsivity is also an area of interest I attended the ATSAC Annual Conference 2018
Introduction to Couples Counselling with Debbie Winterbourne 2019
The Gestalt Centre Couples and Relationship Counselling 2019-2020
Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling CPD series and AGM 2020
Therapies offered
Fees
Fees by negotiation depending on your individual circumstances
Reduced fees for NHS workers
Frequency is once weekly or twice weekly
sessions are 50 minutes
Further information
My strength is providing a quiet, safe, confidential space to share your worries and and to move them to a place where feelings and thoughts are given their rightful space.
To work empathically to try & make sense of your suffering through our mutual understanding.
FPC Members abide by the code of ethics and professional standards defined by the three major accrediting organisations – the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) and United Kingdom of Counselling & Psychotherapy (UKCP).
I was on the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling - Members Support Committee 2014-17
