Alex Jordon

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UKCP Accredited Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
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Jesmond NE2 & Newcastle Upon Tyne NE20
Available for new clients
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About me

Working face to face and online with adults, teenagers and older children, I offer daytime, evening and weekend appointments and charge £65-£85 per session.

I have vast experience in supporting clients with their relationship with food, body image and exercise especially. Many of us cope with difficult feelings and relationships by punishing our bodies, perhaps through controlling our food and exercise habits. Through my work, I have found that the power of a safe and healing space to talk,  and a supportive therapeutic alliance with a professional can be life changing. I encourage clients to nourish instead of punish their bodies and then address the root issue of the painful feelings.

Eating distress and low confidence are very common, especially in young people, and can escalate very quickly in to more serious eating disorder type behaviours. In my experience, early intervention is of the upmost importance, but a therapeutic intervention at any point will be very helpful. I have found that in a lot of cases the eating distress, controlling behaviours and rigidity are often somebody's solution to painful feelings and difficult relationships. I take a holistic and sensitive approach to support somebody in their battle. One of my most successful treatment plans involves allowing the mind and body a safe space to heal and rest, whilst looking deeper in to the root causes and beliefs beneath.

I have worked within schools and NHS settings for over 10 years, working with a wide range of clients with a variety of other issues also. These have been a mixture of short-term contracts of 6-8 sessions and longer term psychotherapy for up to 2 years. Presenting issues I have commonly worked with include self confidence, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, bereavement and life adjustment amongst many others.

I work in an Integrative Person-Centered Holistic approach using a variety of Developmental, Somatic and Psychological techniques. My core training is in Transactional Analysis and I am especially interested in Attachment Theory. Both modalities have a huge impact on our our relationship with ourselves and everyone around us and are so important for positive mental health. I use these frameworks as they provide a very accessible structure and are easily understood. The techniques I use, can therefore be implemented easily and are very effective.

I really enjoy helping people through a warm relational approach and guide them to understand themselves better and then show them the tools that can help facilitate them to continue in a more positive way on their journey through life. I resonate highly with the effect of trauma on the nervous system and body and have recently began to implement breath work and emotional regulation tools to help calm the mind and body. I am a qualified yoga and meditation instructor as I find that powerful feelings and emotions are felt and stored within the body and need to be released in order to heal. Together with talking therapy, great and fast results are seen.

I am affiliated with AVIVA and Private Patients.

I look forward to hearing from you soon and wish you all the best in your journey.

Training, qualifications & experience

Qualifications

BSc Hons Psychology; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne,

PG Dip Psychotherapeutic Counselling for Children and Young People

PG Dip Therapeutic Counselling for Adults

Training

200 hour Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation Instructor

 Advanced Master Program on the treatment of Trauma- Ruth Buczynski

Working with Eating Disorders, Polyvagal Theory, Emotional Focused Therapy, Counselling Tutor

Working with Relational Trauma- Carolyn Spring

Personality Needs, Adult Attachment Theory, Reparenting Core Wounds - Personal Development School

COVID-19 Remote Counselling -Kate Anthony

BACP- Working with Risk

NCPTT -Using CBT for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

BACP- Emotional Issues around Over-Eating

Jesmond Therapy Centre- Working with Schizoid Personality Disorder, Working with Self harm

Speaker and attendee at ‘Rethink’ Pastoral Conference, Speaker at Annual Nurse’s Conference, Royal Grammar School

Attendee at ‘Blood Brothers and Ugly Sisters’ Conference at Didcot Civic Hall. Oxfordshire

The Northern Guild Training- Transactional Analysis, Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Creative Methods and Story Telling, Child Development and Script, Imagery, Brief Focal Therapy, Advanced Reflexivity, Dream Analysis, Sand Tray, The Child Within, Safeguarding, Ethical and Legal Guidelines

Member organisations

Registered / Accredited

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UKCP
UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

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Accredited register membership

UK Council for Psychotherapy
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Areas of counselling I deal with

Fees

£65.00 - £75.00
Free initial telephone session

Health Insurance/EAP

  • Aviva

Additional information

Free telephone consultation

£60-75 per 50 minute session

Discounts possible for block bookings

When I work

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night

Daytime and evening appointments available

Monday-Saturday

Urban Angel Therapy Centre, 105 St George's Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 2DN

The Darras Hall Clinic, Broadway, Ponteland, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, NE20 9PW

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone

Types of client

Children (0-12)
Young people (13-17)
Adults (25-64)
Older Adults (65+)
Couples
Organisations

Key details

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Online platforms

Zoom

Supervision

In person
Online
Phone

Offering Supervision and Support for child and adult work. I have over 10 years experience within schools, NHS settings and the Private Sector.

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Alex Jordon
Alex Jordon