Alison Rickard
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Counselling offers an excellent way of exploring the situations and relationships in life that are causing issues for us. Relationship breakdowns, ongoing difficult relationships with family or friends, and complex family dynamics can leave us feeling overwhelmed, hurt and confused.
Anxiety, worry, insomnia & stress may seem familiar and perhaps you've grown used to managing them, but sometimes old coping strategies no longer work. Or maybe stress & anxiety are new to you and you're not sure how to cope?
Grief, loss and changes in life can be so vey painful and lead us to ask some big questions about ourselves, our purpose in life and what we want our life to look like. Baby loss - whether due to miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death or termination - can leave deep, lasting scars that often go unseen by others.
I am happy to work long term or short term, sometimes only a few sessions are needed, and sometimes we need to dip in to therapy on an occasional basis.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling, University of Brighton 2005
- Cascade Diploma in Individual & Group Supervision 2010
- Counsellor Sussex Coast College
- Assistant Manager Counselling Plus (formerly Hastings & Rother Counselling Service
- Counselling NHS Primary Care
- EAP Telephone Counselling
Additional Counselling Training: Brighton & Hove Bereavement Support; Dragonflies Bereavement Support for Children & Young People; St Michael's Hospice; Macmillan Cancer Support; Sands (Stillbirth & Neonatal Death); Cruse Bereavement Care; Foundations of CBT; Couple & Family Counselling; Ongoing Continuing Professional Development.
Before training as a counsellor, I had many years of experience of licensed pastoral ministry within the Church of England. I am a parent and have a grown up daughter with Down's Syndrome & Autism, living at home.
I also offer individual supervision to counsellors and other related professions. Please see my supervision profile for more details.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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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
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Counselling: £50 (50 min session).
Counselling Reduced rate for Trainee Counsellors: £40 (50 min session)
Supervision & Reflective Practice: £50 (1 hour) £60 (1.5 hours).
When I work
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Flexible appointments means you don't need to attend at the same time/day every week.
Further information
I have a large and well ventilated therapy room looking out over the garden all at ground floor level. There is one step at the front door. There are 2 steps down to the downstairs toilet with a handrail. There is usually plenty of free on road parking in the area.
Chairs are 2 meters apart. Hand sanitiser & tissues are available but please bring your own water
