Andrew Bretton
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This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
About me and my therapy practice
My name is Andy and I will meet you with warmth and acceptance wherever you are in your life, without any expectation or judgement of you. Providing a safe and confidential space for you is paramount to me. I have found that anyone given an accepting space in which they are truly heard can, and does, benefit and develop.
I am an integrative counsellor and see the therapeutic relationship as central to counselling. Being Integrative in approach means I can draw on several different methods (*) of counselling whilst exploring the issues, feelings, beliefs, behaviour, and worldview you bring. Through this you can become more self-aware and achieve greater independence.
The connection built through therapy is one that has the potential to be dynamic in promoting and assisting personal growth for you. As you get to know yourself more completely you will build a new awareness of self and a new way of being. We would develop together a greater understanding of your experiences in order to bring clarity, find possibility and build the resources that will help you meet the challenges you face.
I offer face to face sessions at Sycamore House Kingswood BS15 8DB Bristol and also work online via the Zoom platform.
(*My approaches include Humanistic Person Centred, Gestalt and Internal Family Systems understanding and client-led compassionate enquiry.)
Client feedback after working with me
“I felt safe and was able to say what I needed to”
“I felt understood”
“I felt accepted and not judged”
“You helped me through a healing journey”
“I won’t forget your non-judgemental listening and providing a safe space for me"
Availability
I currently have space for new clients.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
- Diploma in Counselling (Integrative)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Social work
Recent Training:
June 2024
- Fundamentalist religious childhoods and adult health: Implications for practice in one-to-one therapeutic encounters
- Introduction - Treat Trauma with Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-step procedures for healing trauma, anxiety, depression and more.
Experience
I have 20 years+ as a social worker in fostering and kinship care services. Through this work I have had the privilege of seeing life from multiple angles and been able to develop deep empathy for people. As a social worker I have been therapeutic in my work with young people and adults as they navigate their lives.
I have worked for the last two years in a counselling agency in Bristol.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Anyone affected and impacted by adoption, fostering and kinship care, whether as a child, parent or carer.
Spiritual and religious abuse, adverse religious experiences and faith changing or shifting.
Therapies offered
Fees
£35.00 - £55.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free 15-minute telephone call to answer any initial questions you may have. I then currently offer an initial session of 50 minutes at £25 to see if we will meet together for further sessions.
Whether online or face to face all subsequent sessions are £55 for 50 minutes.
I offer some slots at a discounted rate of £35.
When I work
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If my availability does not work for you, please get in touch, as other times may be available. I am available for phone calls on most evenings and at different times on Monday and Tuesday.
Further information
My areas of specialism
- Anyone affected and impacted by adoption, fostering and kinship care, whether as a child, parent or carer.
- Spiritual and religious abuse, adverse religious experiences and faith changing or shifting.
