Alex Consulting
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About us
I am a creative and supportive professional offering the following services : Therapy, Supervision and Coaching.
Specialities :
- anxiety
- depression / low mood
- emotional regulation / self-awareness
- health related issues / long term phisical health conditions
- life changes / ageing
- low self-esteem / self-confidence
- issues around feminine health/ motherhood / menopause
- parenting challenges
- moving country / adjustment / challenges
- neurodiversity
- professional development / working life changes /challenges
- relationships / marriage / family
- shame / guilt
- spirituality
- stress / burnout / somatising emotional issues
- work / career choice/ change/challenges
My practice is located in a quiet area and private settings within walking distance of the St Albans City Station.
I adhere to the BACP’s Ethical Framework and am fully insured.
About me
I develop and share my expertise by continuouselly learning and fully embracing my multifaceted lived experience which enhances my work as a psychotherapist, supervisor and therapeutic coach.
I began my psychodynamic practice in 2007, completed my master’s degree in Psychodynamic Counselling in 2012 and obtained my BACP accreditation (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) in the same year.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent 20 years working as a Registered General Nurse (RGN).
I also have teaching experience in nursing and counselling.
I believe in prevention work and I aim to reduce mental health stigma by offering my Therapeutic Coaching Programme services.
Over the last four decades, I worked across the health sector in the NHS, education and third sector, supporting people experiencing a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties.
I am keen in offering self-care support to those who work in the front line ( short or long term) in educational, health or social care settings. Balancing life and our job require emotional fitness and sustainable resilience resources. I see self-care as everybody responsability. Looking after ourselves is the most valuable decision we can make for us and those who relay on us.
Like many of my clients, I have navigated major life transitions, moving countries, changing careers twice, adapting to changing relationships, managing health challenges and the realities of ageing. Throughout those experiences, I was supported by my therapist and my supervisor. Their guidance transformed my life and I would choose that journey again without hesitation. Their care enabled me to look after myself and after others very well.
My passion is to support those who are supporting others, whether you are a student or already qualified professional, a carer, a supervisor or a manager, with responsibilities to provide care/education for others.
Psychotherapy & Counselling
A single counselling session can be both challenging and deeply valuable, whether you want to focus on a specific issue or you want a time-line life perspective.
Whether you choose short-term therapy (around six months) or longer-term psychotherapy (one year or more), this is a significant commitment to understanding yourself more deeply and addressing repetitive patterns that are not serving you well anymore, hindering life.
Each weekly session offers a dedicated hour of thoughtful, compassionate attention to what matters most to you. Together, we explore unresolved experiences, deepen self-awareness, clarify internal conflicts and work towards healing, meaning and the change you ready for.
As this process unfolds, you can begin to reconnect with parts of yourself that may have remained outside your conscious awareness, allowing both mind and body to move towards a greater integration, freedom and wellbeing.
For ongoing counselling/psychotherapy, I offer reduce rates to nursing, teaching, social care, psychology, physiotherapy and paramedic students.
Counselling Supervision
My supervision aims to offer you a safe and creative space , aiming to nurtures growth through reflection, learning and self-care.
I offer a co-creative, compassionate supervisory relationship where your professional development is balanced with authentic personal development. Together, creating a safe and trusting space, we reflect on your work, self-care, develop clinical expertise and sustain your wellbeing long term, in this demanding and also rewarding role of supporting others.
I have over 10 years experience in supporting counselling professionals working towards, applying and successfully obtaining their BACP accreditation, validating and aligning their expertise to UK counselling profession national standard.
If you prefer online supervision work we can agree to that after we meet in personal at least once.
For ongoing counselling supervision, I offer reduced rate to counselling students.
Coaching
Therapeutic Coaching is powerful first step towards discovering new personal and professional possibilities of gaining fresh, objective and a valuable ( life scale ) clear perspectives on what matters to you the most.
My coaching offers a safe, supportive space where you don't have to face important decisions alone. Together, we pause, take stock of your situation, making sense and identify the strengths and resources you already have also to discover new and more beneficial ones. From there, we co-create a clear and purposeful path forward for you.
Sometimes, a single coaching session is all that is needed to unlock a new perspective and provide the clarity to overcome a specific challenge. A coaching session can also enable you to decide whether of not, for your wellbeing, a more like maintenance and regular check-in is beneficial or a commitment to change what is not working for you.
For those seeking deeper change, coaching works as a weekly commitment. Through consistent, focused work, we take meaningful yet manageable steps towards your personal and professional growth, building confidence and resilience along the way.
For ongoing coaching, short or long term, I offer reduce rate to students’ case by case bases.
How Coaching is different from Therapy
Coaching is a prompting and repetitive check in, creatively enabling you to find answers about what hinders and what enhances your life, and then make choices.
Therapy is a step by step psychological oriented work that involves your engagement in a deeper search for meaning and self-knowing, broadening self-awareness and seeking therapeutic and safe changes to unfold when ready.
A one off consultancy meeting will enable us both to find out whether coaching or counselling is more appropriate and recommended at this point in time.
I am here for you to make choices.
Training, qualifications & experience
My qualifications include:
- Master of Arts in Contemporary Counselling – BACP Accredited course.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling
- Higher Education Certificate in Person Centred Counselling.
- CPCAB Level 6 Diploma in Counselling Clinical Supervision.
I have also undertaken some training in the following areas: Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, TBMA - Body and Mind Approach for Unexplained Bodily Symptoms, Neuro-Art, Neuroscience, Emotional Intelligence and Art for the Blues - group work.
Member organisations :
I am member of the BACP since 2007, and I obtained by BACP accreditation in 2012. https://www.bacp.co.uk/
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.
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.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Other areas of counselling we deal with
- transition and adjustment to significant life changes
- managing the educational and care needs of others or both
- managing multidisciplinary teams
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
One off Therapy or Coaching session, 90 minutes - £150.
Ongoing counselling or Coaching sessions , 50 minutes - £80.
Monthly counselling supervision 90 minutes - £90. Reductions are available for students.
Monthly Group Supervision – maxim 4 people , 90 minutes, prices will depends on participants number between £30 to £60
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Further information
I value the authentic quality of our professional relationship based on trust.
Working together is a significant commitment, and the beginning is as important as the closure.
The journey is about validating, containing, and compassionately working through what you find difficult, preventing you from a deeper alignment with your feelings, values, beliefs, and the quality of your relationships, work, and life.
Working towards understanding and processing emotions enables us all to evaluate the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the world at a deeper level, and it is enriched by your unique self characteristics, all abilities, and gifts. Learning about yourself is the way forward when we struggle.
I will follow your lead to learn and understand about the role of significant people in your early life, which, for the majority of us, still influences our choices presently, potentially detrimentally affecting wellbeing, health, relationships, learning, and work.
Broadening the awareness that family and wider system we live and work in have a certain amount of influence, expectations, and conditioning regarding ourselves, enables us to work through any difficulties that could be rooted into relational patterns learned in childhood.
Reframing from "I should " to " I am True Self and good enough", it is describing me, in one line, before we meet. Helping others and learning about myself continuously enhances my life over more than I could foreseen, and I warmly invite you to consider it.
