Angela Briggs
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About me
Counselling offers time and space in your week to explore what feels difficult or uncertain in your life. Together, we can make sense of your experiences, allowing what needs to emerge come into awareness, and letting insight and understanding unfold. I aim to meet you as a human being rather than a collection of issues to fix.
I work as an integrative counsellor, drawing mainly on person-centred and psychodynamic approaches. In simple terms, this means I offer a supportive space where your experiences and feelings are central, while also being attentive to how past experiences and relationships can shape the present to help build and grow your awareness. Counselling will help you see things more clearly, lightens what feels heavy, and supports you as you work through what you wish to address in therapy, moving towards steadier, more fulfilling life.
I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), this ensures that I follow a clear ethical framework that in turn supports a professional practice.
If you would like to find out more or arrange an appointment, please get in touch. I will offer you my availability and discuss whether you would like to begin with a full 50-minute appointment or a free 20-minute consultation.
Training, qualifications & experience
After an early career in hospitality, I started studying for a degree in counselling in 2005 and later completed my diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling fully qualifying in 2014.
Whilst completing my counselling training, I worked as a therapeutic support worker in a therapeutic community supporting adolescent girls from disadvantaged and abusive backgrounds. This role gave me insight into the impact of trauma and the importance of safe, consistent relationships. It also led me to my first counselling role at The Southmead Project in Bristol, working with adults with a history of abuse and trauma.
I was a volunteer counsellor there (2011–2015) before being employed as a fully qualified counsellor (2016–2019). I have also worked as a counsellor for The Carers Support Centre (2019–2022) working with older adults.
I started my private practice in 2016 and now work exclusively in this sector, seeing clients from my Clifton office and online nationwide. I work with a variety of mental health challenges, I have also been providing supervision to other counsellors.
Qualifications
- Post-Qualifying Diploma in Supervision – Iron Mill College (Feb 2025)
- Post-Qualifying Diploma in Online Counselling Skills – Online Counselling Service and Training (July 2019)
- Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling – Bath Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP-accredited (Sept 2011–July 2014)
- Counselling Foundation Certificate – Bath Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sept 2010–July 2011)
- BA (Hons) Counselling Studies and Society – University of Wales, Newport (Sept 2005–June 2008)
I also attend regular training and workshops to continue developing my professional practice.
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
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
Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
Sessions are held for fifty minutes at £65 per session.
I offer a free twenty minute telephone or online (Zoom) consultation.
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