Amanda Head
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About me
Life can be difficult. Talking with a counsellor can help you draw perspectives, skills and strategies from within yourself and to find in yourself sources of empowerment you were not aware you had to meet life's challenges and grow.
'Counselling Changes Lives' (BACP). When you invite a counselling relationship into your life, you and your counsellor create together a very safe space, completely of your own where you can explore in total confidence the distress and vulnerability that are leading you to seek out counselling now, at a level which you perhaps could not share or bring to even those who are closest to you. Even at your most fragile, you can begin to restore a good relationship with yourself, find out what you truly want from your life at the life stage where you are and reconnect with your sense of purpose.
Sometimes your counselling journey may be relatively short, sometimes for longer. We might meet regularly to explore your issues together to help you move forward better equipped with support and self understanding.
Training, qualifications & experience
Amanda Head: BA (Hons) London MBACP Registered with BACP
Diploma in Counselling - Cambridge University Counselling Service in conjunction with the Institute of Lifelong Learning at Madingley
Placement at the Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living, Herts
9 years counselling at Choices, Cambridge, working with Adults who were sexually abused as children
3.5 years as a counsellor with The Cogwheel Trust in Cambridge
Private Practice
2 years as a counsellor with Evolve_Community Counselling Charity
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
Fees
£45.00 per session
