Alia Butt
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About me
The experience of struggle and occasional breakdown is universal; how we each unravel and come back together is unique.
Imagine acting with clearer insight into our lives, with more conscious awareness of how we are affected by others and the impact we have on the world.
I offer a nurturing space to explore and mediate our time in the world. I will challenge you at times, and you may even feel discomfort from confronting patterns that fail to serve purpose to you and those around you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified member of the UKCP and the BACP.
I am an experienced clinician working in both private practice and in the NHS, with adults and young people.
I have NHS experience in the following services: adult psychodynamic psychotherapy service, acute adult inpatient services, specialist child and adolescent mental health services, specialist eating disorder services, neurodevelopmental paediatrics, and medium secure forensic services.
I also teach and write about psychotherapy, philosophy and politics.
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Fees
£75.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Couples/Families £85.
Concessions available.
