Satish Parmar MNCS (Accred)

Training, qualifications & experience

- Diploma in Integrative Humanistic Therapeutic Counselling
- Peer Mentor Progression
- Motivational Interviewing

- Mindfulness therapy
- Deprivation of Liberty, Mental Capacity Act 1993, Safeguarding Children & Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

- NOCN Level 3, Tackling Issues Of Substance Misuse

- Brief Interventions - Addictions


Experience

I trained in Humanistic Integrative Counselling, consisting of three models: Person-Centred, Gestalt and Transactional-Analysis. I use a mixture of all three models, to understand the needs of my client, but the focus is to empower the client so that they can find their own solutions.

I have worked with hundreds of clients as a qualified counselling psychotherapist for over 8 years and have assisted people with various kinds of issues, from assisting in developing self-esteem to someone having attempted suicide.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Addiction

I have also trained and worked as an Addiction Counsellor. Addiction can happen to anyone regardless of age, character, religion, education or social and employment status. No one purposely turns to addiction but it happens due to various reasons. It could happen due to traumas, distress or past suppression of feelings or emotions. Or it could be genetically linked to our parentage.

Addiction can develop to simple things such as television programmes, food, tea, coffee, sex, chocolates etc. Or it could be hours of gaming online to substance abuse. Life-threatening addictions could include glue-sniffing, alcohol, cigarettes to misuse of drugs such as cannabis, amphetamines, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin or crack.

Further information

Having personally experienced the effectiveness of Counselling, I decided to train as a therapeutic counsellor. I chose Integrative Humanistic Counselling because the teachings were attuned to my values and beliefs.

Having worked in many different occupations and experienced various levels of responsibilities, travelled and experienced three different continents, I have learned a lot about people and their behaviours. In my life, I have gone through a variety of upheavals, from relationship breakdowns, traumas, addiction to meditation.

For many people nowadays life is very hectic. I offer online counselling using various methods for those people who cannot have face-face counselling or who prefer anonymity. In the past, some clients have had counselling sessions with me using the telephone, emailing, facebook messenger or skype.