Alan Jones
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About me
I am a UKCP registered Clinical Psychotherapist and Supervisor with BACP Accreditation using Person Centred and Transactional Analysis therapies. I offer the first session for free so that clients have the opportunity to decide if I am the right therapist for them.
I offer a confidential service, using an approach that is focused on the results clients want to achieve. I work with people are over 18 years including couples groupwork and familiy work. Evening and weekend appointments are available.
My elegant and safe practice rooms are in Leamington Spa. Accessible from the Warwick and Coventry Universities, and near to major employers.
My belief
My beliefs are based on the basic principles of Transactional Analysis, everyone has worth, everyone can think and everyone makes decisions about themselves and their lives that can be remade in the here and now. I offer the opportunity to explore your potential through therapy in a confidential, supportive and safe environment.
Why therapy?
You may be exploring therapy for a number of reasons. You may be trying to cope with the loss of a partner or family member, the breakdown or difficulty of a relationship, trying to make sense of something which happened during your childhood or any other personal reason.
You may have a need to identify and change what you might think is unhealthy behaviour. You may not be clear about the reasons for starting therapy, and that’s okay.
Many of us experience a general sense of unhappiness, anxiety, dissatisfaction and use therapy as a way of finding out what our thoughts, feelings and behaviours mean.
There are no right or wrong reasons. It just takes willingness and some time to look closer at your concerns which you can’t make sense of on your own.
Many of my clients have been referred by existing or previous clients, and I have a high success rate with people engaged in professional roles, including business owners, doctors, lawyers and teachers.
What is Transactional Analysis?
Transactional Analysis (TA) is a set of practical conceptual tools for personal growth and change, and a social psychology developed by Eric Berne MD. According to Berne, TA is a powerful tool for human well-being that utilises the “Adult”, in both the client and therapist to sort out thoughts, feelings and behaviours that result in personal difficulties.
As your therapist, I will work directly with you in the "here-and-now" to establish an equal working relationship and help to provide you with day-to-day tools to finding constructive and creative solutions to your problems.
The main TA concepts that we'll use during our work are that you are able to think clearly and develop new options and outcomes to your problems. TA will help us to look at how we often re-play childhood strategies in grown-up life, even when these produce results which are self-defeating or painful. I will also give you tools which you will be able to use in between sessions.
A major difference between Transactional Analysis and most other therapies is that during the course of the therapy we share the models, theories and philosophy with the client in a very transparent and equal way. Therapy is achieved by working together. You are the expert on you and how you feel think and behave, I provide the expertise to help you to understand yourself, your problems, what you want to change and how to go about changing things in a way that suits you. We then make a contract detailing what you want to change and how I am going got help you to make those changes.During the process you will acquire some of the theory and models used which will help you to continue to develop after the therapy is over.
A good place to learn more about Transactional Analysis is the website of our professional body United Kingdom Association for Transactional Analysis where the basic concepts are explained
here is a link to the relevant pages that you may have to copy and paste into your browser
www.uktransactionalanalysis.co.uk/transactional-analysis/what-is-ta
TA is used in all types of psychological matters from everyday living problems to mental health difficulties. It provides a method of therapy for individuals, couples, groups and families.
Professional bodies
I am registered as a clinical psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Counsel for Psychotherapy (UKCP), an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), a member of the United Kingdom Association for Transactional Analysis (UKATA) and the European Association of Transactional Analysis (EATA). These professional bodies provide a a safe framework for therapy work and I abide by the guidelines for good practice and ethics of all of these organisations.
Other information
As well as working in private practice, I have worked within the counselling service departments of local charities, including working with clients who have been bereaved and clients who are adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. I have also undertaken a clinical placement at a local acute psychiatric unit and community psychiatric centre (NHS) This has given me a good awareness of mental health difficulties that may fall outside the scope of normal psychotherapy and I am in a position to make referrals to private psychiatrists or NHS services if necesary.
I have worked in industry and sales and marketing as a senior manager, helping my team members to achieve their goals and potential. My business experience allows me to successfully work with people who are having difficulties at work either due to their own early life decision limitations or due to the ever increasing demands of companies on their employees
I also help people to develop good coping strategies for working with difficult or unreasonable bosses
Training, qualifications & experience
PTSTA(P) UKCP regstered Supervisor
Certified Transactional Analyst CTA, United Kingdom Association for Transactional Analysis. (UKATA)
MSc in Transactional Analysis with Psychotherapy speciality from Middlesex University.
Post Graduate Clinical Diploma in Transactional Analysis Counselling, Middlesex University.
Diploma in Person Centred Counselling, Warwickshire College.
Diploma in Coaching, The Coaching Academy.
UKCP Registered Clinical Psychotherapist
Member of the European Association of Transactional Analysis (EATA)
Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP),
Member organisations
school 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.
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.
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
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.
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
Business Coaching
Keeping a successful mindset whilst working under pressure
Career changes
Coping strategies for working for a difficult boss
Redundancy issues
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £75.00
Additional information
£50 per hour for individual therapy lasting 1 hour
£75 per 1.5 hour session for couples work
Group work fees based on size of group
When I work
I am available normal working hours and at evenings and weekends