Andreia Jennings
About me
As a psychotherapist I draw upon my existential training and on the phenomenological method, which allows my clients and I to gain an understanding of their way of ‘being-in-the-world’. I also draw upon ideas from other disciplines within psychotherapy, and complement my practice with insights from these approaches.
When growing up and later in life we develop various coping mechanisms, which allow us to function and get on with our lives. However, our life circumstances change and in many respects we ourselves also keep changing, but sometimes we continue to use the same coping mechanisms, which instead of helping us, become barriers to our development and self-fulfilment.
Our inner discourse may become stuck in rigid views of ourselves, we can repeat unhelpful patterns of behaviour and become unable to escape our daily mental confinements.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling from 2005 to 2009.
MA Psychotherapy and Counselling - 2009
PGDip Existential psychotherapy and counselling - 2008
UPCA - accredited psychotherapist - 2010
UKCP - registered - 2010
BACP - registered member - 2010
Since 2007 I have worked as an existential-integrative psychotherapist in private practice and for various mental health charities.
In particular I have considerable experience in the fields of:
Eating disorders
Bereavement
Domestic abuse
Anxiety
Depression
Member organisations
Registered / Accredited
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.
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
UK Council for Psychotherapy
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association
Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
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
Availability
Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays
Further information
Beneficial effects of therapy
We live in a very fast-paced society, which through its competitiveness pushes us to be better and more ‘efficient’ every day. This can make us feel inadequate and we often tend to compare ourselves to others and judge ourselves too severely.
Therapy opens our inner conversation to a dialogue with an-other, which takes place in a safe and non-judgmental environment, so we can gain new perspectives on our private and social lives and see that are other ways of addressing ourselves and the world.
We can learn to not be afraid of our emotions, but use them as the best guides to our inner world and employ them to ask questions, see choices and construct new meanings.
Therapy helps us to become self-aware and more honest with ourselves and consequently can give us the balance and assurance to step more courageously into the unknown.
