Alan Smithson
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About me
- Specialising in counselling for children & young people aged 11-25.
- Particular interest in neurodivergence and gender dysphoria in young people.
- Where appropriate, I can offer short-term, solution-focused counselling.
- My integrative approach allows the counselling to be tailored to your needs.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Integrative Counselling Diploma (2016).
- 7+ years' of counselling experience.
- 10+ years of group facilitation, training, and teaching experience including: relationships and sex education for teens, adult learners, group therapy, 1:1 support for young adults with autism, and more.
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
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £60.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Further information
- I have been volunteering for a local men's mentoring organisation, A Band of Brothers, since 2014. We work with young men who have become involved with the criminal justice system, or who are leaving care.
- I'm also a counselling tutor, and a father of one.
