Alison Firth
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About me
Each person’s journey through life is unique. The relationships we experience from birth to present day shape how we perceive our reality and it's different for each of us. Sometimes life can be very confusing and distressing and that can prevent us from living fulfilling lives. Sometimes it can be hard to understand how we feel or why we feel that way. It can be even harder to communicate our worries and vulnerabilities to others.
I am here to listen to you. I offer my clients my genuine warm, empathetic and good humoured personality. I combine this with my professional skills and insight gained from my MSc in Integrative Counselling and my experiences as a working Counsellor.
My aim is to take time and care to build a trusting relationship with my client and work within this relationship to help my client to make sense of what is going on in their life.
Being a qualified Integrative Counsellor means I can incorporate and combine different elements from different counselling theories to individually tailor our work together but my work with clients is predominantly Person Centred.
Please call me to book a a face to face appointment at the Cottage Therapy Centre in Kenilworth or alternatively arrange for telephone counselling appointments or outdoor sessions or we can have combination of these counselling methods.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Professional Qualifications;
- MSc Integrative Counselling
- Counselling Skills Level 1-3
Continuous Professional Development Courses;
- Energy Psychotherapy
- Working Safely with Erotic Transference and Counter Transference
- Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Transactional Analysis
- Surviving and Existential Crisis
- Telephone Counselling
Professional Experience;
As well as my personal practice I have experience of working with young people and mature students in an educative setting having spent two academic years working in Birmingham at University College Birmingham.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
When you make contact with me we can have a brief and free, no obligation chat on the phone so that you can hear my voice, ask me any questions you may have and from there decide whether you think we could work well together. I look forward to hearing from you.
When I work
I am available weekends, evenings and daytimes
