Alison Wilkinson
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About me
Hello and welcome to my Profile. I am a fully qualified, experienced Counsellor & Counselling Supervisor, who can offer you time and a confidential, safe space to start to explore any problem feelings and thoughts you may have. I work both face to face and online/phone to cater for everyone through these strange times we’re all living through.
Counselling can help you to discover your own resources and ways of coping. I am there to listen carefully with kindness and non judgmental understanding, enabling you to find your own way forward if, and when, you are ready. We will work together according to your pace and needs.
Could counselling help you?
Throughout our lives most of us experience natural 'ups and downs', and most of the time we manage these well enough. However, sometimes we reach a point where events seem to overwhelm us and we feel we are struggling to manage, and carry on with our day-to-day activities.
Counselling can help to improve self-esteem, untangle emotional dilemmas, or provide much needed support to deal with grief, separation, divorce, illness or loss.
When we become low or very stressed, this can tip over into anxiety that can feel debilitating, getting in the way of our normal lives, having someone calm, neutral and non-judgmental to hear our story and provide potential coping mechanisms can really help. Although the tools to feel better are often within us, sometimes it can help to discover these resources through talking to someone trained to listen and help.
I practice at very pleasant, discreet premises in Henley in Arden, on the Stratford Road, equi-distant to both Solihull and Stratford upon Avon and the surrounding area. The premises have access to parking nearby and all attempts are made to accommodate clients with disabilities.
In addition to my private practices I currently work as a private Counselling Supervisor and as a Specialist Bereavement Supervisor at Solihull Bereavement Counselling Service, attached to Solihull Hospital.
Training, qualifications & experience
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Degree in Psychology
Masters Degree
Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Diploma in Counselling
British Psychological Society Certificate In Relationship Therapy
British Psychological Society Certificate in Clinical Supervision
Specialist Training Completed in:
Relationships
Trauma
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Bereavement
Attachment Theory
Anxiety & Depression
Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Child Protection
Gestalt Therapy
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
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Fees
£45.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Fees: £45 per hour for one to one counselling & £55 per hour for Couples Therapy
Special arrangements can be made for students and those on a low income
When I work
Weekdays & after work appointments
