Alexandra Reumert
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About me
I am trained to work with adults 18 and above. I am fully inclusive in my practice and welcome clients from all communities. I am a member of UKCP and a registered member of BACP/MBACP and adhere to their ethical code in my practice. Alongside my private practice, I work pro bono with a charity providing therapy for a self-selected fee.
I provide a safe, compassionate, confidential, and non-judgemental space. I can help with single, specific problems or broader, more existential issues like depression. Do you have anxieties, or feel you are not living your best, most meaningful life; that something is holding you back? Are there unresolved issues in your past with family, school life, friends and partners? Maybe there are aspects of your present, the 'here and now', that throws you off balance?
Are you transitioning from one stage of life to another? Divorce or relationship with children? Or physically moving from one culture to another -job, area or country? Or perhaps find you keep repeating the same, unhelpful, patterns in life? Do you have health issues or aspects of your sexual life that need exploring? I will meet you with an open mind and, metaphorically speaking, 'hold you' as we work through your problems.
Sometimes that means compassionate holding of your problems, other times it means challenging you, to grow. I like to use a psychodynamic approach to explore your attachment style and relationship with your caregivers, parents, siblings and other important people and create a timeline. I will then interweave other theories and models depending on your situation, including transpersonal, transactional analysis, gestalt, existential, jungian and some CBT tools.
I am trained in using psychosexual approaches with systemic family therapy, to effectively contextualise issues and understand them better. I have also undertaken further training in couples counselling, integrating coaching and psychotherapy, Polyvagal theory (the nervous system), trauma, as well as issues for both former boarding school pupils, focusing on experiences specific to boys and girls.
Specialism
- Addictions
- Cancer, long-term illness and pain
- Depression
- Former boarding school pupils.
- Grief and bereavement
- Relationships
- Self-confidence issues, panic attacks, stress
- Sexual issues, divorce
- Suicidal ideation
- Transitions
- Trauma
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified integrative psychotherapist and counsellor. I use a variety of theoretical models and tools depending on your needs. I have an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent's University, London.
Prior to training as a psychotherapist, I studied art history and architecture at University College London (BA Hons). I subsequently lived in Paris for several years, where I gained an MBA from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees.
I established an art Gallery and consultancy in London after a further MA in Art Business from Sotheby's.
My academic background in art, history and business means I always try to establish a context for my clients and their unique set of circumstances; I believe you cannot truly understand anything in isolation, be it physical or psychological.
To paraphrase the brilliant psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott; “there is no such thing as an infant”, by which he meant that we are all dependent on others and cannot exist in isolation.
So it is important to understand the context of any problems. pathologies and challenges.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£90.00 per session
Additional information
My fee is £90 for weekly, short and long term 50-minute sessions (more frequent in some circumstances).
I offer an initial, free 20-minute call for us to 'meet' each other. I work in-person at Eaton Gate Practice on Wednesdays or online on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Contact me email me here or send a WhatsApp message.
Further information
I am Danish (German and Italian) but fully bilingual in English. I have lived in five different countries which means I have experience of adapting to new cultures and languages, and hence the concept of being ‘other’/different. I am a mother.
