About me
Hi, my name is Alex, I am a Person-Centred & Humanistic Counsellor providing Online & In-person therapy for individuals.
Anxiety, depression and Trauma among other areas are issues I work closely with. Anxiety can look like an almost constant tension/worry/fear, but externally you might look fine, this can also lead to moments of overwhelm, even panic attacks. This can be an exhausting experience and lead to low mood/depression in itself.
Trauma is a term used a lot nowadays, but what does it mean? This can refer to a one-off event that has left a lasting impact on your mood/emotions/behaviour and ability to manage relationships with self and others (ptsd). It can also describe longer term experiences, over many years sometimes, usually with more than one type of traumatic experience and happenings having occurred over a prolonged period of time, all combining to deeply affect your life in many aspects and ways (C-ptsd). Whatever your experiences have been trauma can be supported by therapy, and will depend on the unique individual factors involved for you. So as a trauma informed therapist my aim is to work with you to identify these individual factors as we work together, to help you manage, reduce and heal from them.
If you have any questions, queries or wonderings, please feel free to contact me by phone, email or visit my website. Best wishes in finding the right counsellor for you :)
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications & training:
- Bsc (Hons) Degree in Person-Centred Counselling - 3yrs
- Level 1, 2 & 3 in Counselling Skills & Theory - 1.5yrs approx
- Anorexia Nervosa - a Person-Centred Perspective training workshop
- Working with trauma in Counselling
- a training workshop exploring theory/approach and skills around Trauma work - Alcohol & Substance Awareness Course
- 7 days - specialist training to work therapeutically with these issues.
Experience:
Voluntary counselling with LGBT Switchboard (Brighton) - working with a team of counsellors/therapists, as part of the counselling service for this charity/council funded organisation. This was a low-cost counselling service specifically for LGBTQI clients. This gave me first hand experience in working with sexuality & gender issues among a wide age range of people. As well as many other issues; as the service was for LGBTQI people generally, so the issues worked with were wide ranging.
Voluntary counselling with SCDA (Newhaven) - SCDA is a charity/council funded organisation, offering low-cost general counselling to the local Sussex communities. As this was a general counselling service I worked with a wide range of ages, genders and backgrounds. This also meant that I worked with a wide range of different issues.
Voluntary counselling with CGL (formerly CRI) - CGL counselling service are based in Sussex and provide counselling for people dealing with alcohol and substance use. This was a specialist counselling service, where I worked with people who had alcohol or substance dependance issues, withdrawal/management of substance use about to begin rehab/detox or after leaving. This involved working with wide age ranges and backgrounds, as well as further issues involving relationships, emotional abuse, trauma, OCD, Borderline Personality issues, loneliness, depression and many more.
It is worth mentioning that before becoming a counsellor, I worked for many years as a support/care/health worker. This means that I have first-hand experience of learning disabilities, ageing, epilepsy, autism, mental health, physical disabilities, sensory disabilities, communication difficulties and life-limiting conditions, as well as the impact of this for family, friends & carers.
Member organisations
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- LGBTQI
- sexuality & gender issues
- substance use
- addiction
- trauma
- relationships
- loss & bereavement
- depression
- anxiety
- general mental health/well-being.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Initial Online Consultation
This is for us to meet, get to know each other, ask any questions, discuss what brings you to counselling, and to give you an opportunity to get a sense of me and whether you feel we could work in counselling together. £25 for 50 mins.
Individual Online & In-Person Counselling £55 for 50 mins.
Reduced fee : Online Therapy sessions £30 / In-Person Therapy sessions £40. Eligible for students, trainee counsellors and those on low-income.
When I work
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Further information
If you have questions or queries about my online or In-person counselling services, don't hesitate to get in touch either by email here or by phone call to 07789888139.
