Andrew Norman


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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Anxiety and confusion, anger, relationships and families, problems with work and retirement, issues with self confidence, esteem and identity, spirituality in the broadest sense, loneliness, loss, upheaval and bereavement are all areas I find therapy helps with.
As a qualified therapist I aim to meet clients at their point of need, and through offering good listening and empathic questioning to support finding the best personal ways forward. I trust in the potential we each have to understand ourselves better, to change and to grow.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Forty years experience of pastoral care supporting my counselling practice.
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB).
- Certificate in Online & Telephone Counselling (Counselling Tutor).
- Registered Member of the BACP.
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

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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£30.00 - £50.00
Free initial in-person or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I want therapy to be as accessible as possible for everyone. So I try to be flexible with new clients. I keep my standard rate at a low £50 per session. But please discuss with me paying what you can realistically afford if a still lower fee would be necessary to make counselling possible for you.
When I work
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I can offer early evening sessions finishing at 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Further information
My therapeutic method is Humanistic. I avoid using therapy jargon. So in practical terms I will be supporting you to:
- stay in touch with yourself: body, thoughts and feelings
- be more aware and trustful of the deep goodness in you and your potential to live more fully
- know and believe in your core values
- listen to your internal messages to yourself
- listen to the messages you have heard from others to yourself
- recognise and be gentle with your vulnerabilities
- understand and manage better your fight/ flight/ freeze response to stress and trauma
- accept what you cannot change
- but imagine what you might grow out of and into
- learn to practice good ways to soothe and to nurture yourself
- and be able to regularly check in with yourself
Client testimonial
From E VR, February 2021: “Andrew was a skilled, intelligent and very kind counsellor to me at a low point in my life. I consider myself very fortunate as I often found him leading me skilfully and professionally to find my own solutions and answers to my concerns and questions usually much to my surprise. This ability to guide me and yet show me that I was not always correct and as clear in my thinking and perceptions as I thought I was, always with a gentle smile, means that I trust Andrew absolutely. I always felt safe with him, from the first appointment."
"Andrew has excellent time management skills and I never felt rushed. The last session with him was positive and affirming with many good memories. He guided me to feel empowered again and to value myself.”
My first session
I remember feeling quite nervous when I went to my own first session of counselling as a new client. So I was grateful that my therapist welcomed me warmly, explained things clearly, and put me at my ease. I now try to do the same myself.
Our first session will be to identify what has prompted you to consider counselling, to see what you want the therapy to help with - and the right place for you to start.
We can discuss together and agree key matters such as confidentiality. These will include all the practicalities which will ensure that our sessions remain a safe space for you in line with the BACP Ethical Framework and the law relating to the protection of your data.
If you then decide that you would like to continue working with me we would agree on a helpful schedule.
Talking to someone who really listens well is so simple but can be so helpful. It's how we are as human beings. We need to see ourselves holistically and through some of the veils that come to be there for each of us.
I hope that today might be the time for you to take a further step in that process.