Amanda Perl MSc Psychotherapist Counsellor MBPsS BACP (Accred) CBT Practitioner
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“Life begins on the other side of despair” Jean-Paul Sartre. I provide a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space where you can share and explore present and past experiences, express thoughts and feelings gaining personal awareness, enjoy a better quality of life, robust mental health, improved well-being and positive relationships.
My experience and interests include anxiety, paranoid anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, depression, trauma, PTSD, OCD, phobias, anger management, personality disorders, eating disorders including binge eating disorder, physical and sexual abuse, gender and sexuality, addiction(s) including substance misuse, alcohol, food, compulsive lying, codependency, affairs and betrayals, sex and porn, internet, gambling and gaming in addition to relationship issues specialising in men and women positioned as "abuser" or "abused" aka "perpetrator" or "survivor (victim)", caught up together in a cycle of emotional abuse. Additionally, work-related stress, redundancy, bullying, prejudice.
Training, qualifications & experience
My belief is that each of us is unique with the potential for growth and development and can move forward in our own way. My practice is humanistic existential, integrating Person-Centred, Mindfulness, Transactional Analysis, Schema Therapy, CBT (recommended under the NICE Guidelines), Psychodynamic and Gestalt approaches.
Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists ("BACP"). Member of the British Psychological Society ("BPS"). Course Lead LIFE-FORCE Stage 4 BACP Accredited Counselling Diploma. Workshops and presentations delivered including at BPS Conferences and school INSET staff training days: Assertiveness and Relationships, Personality Disorders, Mindfulness, Health & Well-being, Addictions, Anxiety and Disordered Eating. Fellow practitioners, if you wish to train with me, CPD workshops are available in a range of interventions.
Previous positions: Clinical Lead, Team leader, Group Facilitator, Domestic Violence Lead, Trainer, Developer and Lead on Transtheoretical and Structured Day care programmes. Specific Recovery Service Programmes set up within large London Boroughs.
Initial training: long-term psychotherapy with outpatients NHS Department of Psychotherapy & Art Psychotherapy (up to 104 weeks per patient) with those amongst us facing serious challenges to mental health and diagnosed with personality disorders [including borderline, narcissistic, antisocial], bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Experience also includes working with jointly commissioned third sector Charity/NHS and Dual Diagnosis Services. Additionally delivering training and interventions within the Criminal Justice System.
Qualifications and training include:
MSc in Psychology
BSc (Hons) in Psychology
Advanced (Integrative) Diploma in Counselling
Supervision
Group Psychotherapy
Couples Therapy
Eating Disorders & Nutrition
CBT for Depression
OCD, Phobias
Anxiety (Integrated approach)
Anger Management
Assertiveness
Emotional Abuse (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-36257791)
Bereavement
Trauma (Resilience, Secondary Trauma and Post-Trauma Growth)
Mindfulness
Mindset (sports psychology)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Personality Disorders
Schema Therapy
Gender and Sexuality
Addictive Thinking, Drugs & Alcohol, Gambling, Internet, Gaming, Porn, Codependency
Intuitive Recovery
Equality and Diversity
Change Management
Discourse analysis
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Anorexia nervosa
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge-eating disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug abuse
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Gambling
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Hearing voices
- Histrionic personality disorder
- Hoarding
- Internet addiction
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Psychosis
- Redundancy
- Relationship issues
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sex addiction
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Further individual and group process work offered on prejudice; including internalised prejudice, racism, antisemitism, homophobia or any other form of discrimination towards the self and/or others.
Therapies offered
- Cognitive and behavioural therapies
- Couples counselling
- Existential therapy
- Gestalt therapy
- Group therapy
- Humanistic therapies
Fees
Counselling & Psychotherapy: £40 to £75 per 50 minute session individuals and couples
Leigh-on-Sea: please enquire for initial assessment appointment, parking outside
Basildon: although not available, can be seen at Leigh-on-Sea practice, SS9 2QT
Skype: available
Groups: check for availability, fees upon request
Workshops, INSET days, Presentations, Seminars, Conferences: fees and availability upon request
Equality and Diversity training, change management: fees and availability on request
Discourse analysis, proof reading, editing: fees upon request
Supervision £60 per hour: currently no spaces
Published articles
- Mental Health Awareness Week: ten steps to freedom from depression and anxiety
- Workplace bullying: How to survive, move forward and heal
- Relationship addiction and narcissism: Are you trapped in the cycle of codependency?
- Emotionally abusive relationships: Survivors of narcissistic parents
- Emotionally abusive relationships: Technological violence, stalking on Facebook and social media
- Emotionally abusive relationships: anger, men and feminism on International Women’s Day
- Emotionally abusive relationships: how to tell if you’ve been manipulated by a narcissist
- Male adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse: Men coming out of the shadows
- Anxiety and escapism: a post-traumatic stress disorder
Maps & Directions
Leigh-on-Sea, SS9
Basildon, SS13
Type of session
| Online counselling: | Yes |
| Telephone counselling: | No |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
Practical details
| Sign language: | No |
| Other languages: | None |
Availability
Daytime and evening appointments available Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays between 9 am and 9 pm.
Types of client
| Young people |
| Adults |
| Older adults |
| Couples |
| Groups |
| Organisations |
| Employee Assistance Programme |
Skype details
Skype name
amanda_perl
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