Amy Snowden
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About me
I offer weekly counselling for adult individuals, face-to-face or online. The basis of my work is Psychodynamic, a model that focuses on talking about how past experiences and relationships may affect your present. I can help you to think about both, and together we can unpick things that feel too difficult to work through on your own. I may also offer insight into a situation so that we can look at it with a different perspective. I work with honesty, impartiality and respect.
I offer regular weekly 50-minute sessions (both face-to-face and online), with the space held for you at the same day and time each week. My room is in a peaceful ground-floor location with off-street parking.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
- BACP - Registered member, British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapist
- BPC - Registered member, British Psychoanalytical Council
- 4-year Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (WCP 4yrs)
- BA English Literature (Hons)
- I regularly attend Continuing Professional Development workshops and events, and have regular supervision in order to uphold the quality of my work
- I am currently training as an Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Bowlby Centre
Current work
- Counselling – Private Practice
- Pastural Tutor, Wessex Counselling & Psychotherapy
Past Counselling work:
- Counsellor for Cotswold Counselling
- Counsellor for Wessex Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Listener at Westonbirt School
- Intake worker, Wessex Counselling & Psychotherapy
I follow the BACP and BPC Codes of Ethics and work with impartiality, honesty, and respect
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 British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). 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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
I offer a free 20-30 minute initial phone call for us to think more about what brings you to counselling. Thereafter weekly sessions are charged at £50.00
When I work
Flexible
