Anne-Marie Cooper-Kilroy
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About me
Welcome to Connect Counselling, thank you for considering my practice. I wonder if you are thinking about the benefits of talking to a trained counsellor, someone removed from your family and friends to work through the worries and challenges you may be facing or carry with you. If that feels familiar please keep reading.
Why are you considering counselling? Does your everyday life feel like hard work? Are you fed up, feeling sad, anxious, lonely, overwhelmed? I can help you. Getting in contact is the first step, we will start by talking about what is going on for you.
I have a specialism supporting and working with clients who are bereaved, helping them understand, accept and manage their grief.
It’s ok not to be ok, but you don’t have to be alone with your struggle. Counselling will help you make meaning of how and why you are feeling the way you do and enable you to move forward with resilience and confidence.
How might I help you? Everybody has problems, but for some working through them is more challenging than for others; perhaps because of an early childhood experience or trauma, or a relationship problem, or a feeling of sadness that might feel too hard or frightening to unpack alone. I can help.
If you have agreed with any of the above then you are in the right place and I would really like to hear from you to see if we could work together. Please email me , thank you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I see clients with a variety of problems and I have a specialism working with bereavement, anxiety, depression, loss and life changes. I have a strong calling to support those who have experienced life changes and loss; bereavement counselling is a large part of my professional life; working 1:1 with clients and running bereavement support groups.
I understand that making the first contact with a therapist can feel frightening and/or overwhelming, but if you decide to get in touch we will work together at your own pace without any pressure or judgement and try to connect the dots of the challenges you are facing.
I look forward to meeting you ...
Qualifications:
- Foundation Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling, The Counselling Foundation.
- Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, The Counselling Foundation.
- Bereavement training, Sue Ryder, St John's Moggerhanger.
- Transformation Life Coach Certification, Udemy.
- Intergrating Care: depression, anxiety and physical illness, Kings College London.
- Understanding anxiety, depression and CBT, The University of Reading.
- WPF, Certificate in Clinical assessments.
- The Grove Practice, Couples & Other Relationships.
- Level 5 Certificate in Counselling Children & Young People.
- Foundation Certificate in Group Analysis.
- Level 5 Diploma in Somatic-Informed Trauma Therapy.
- Working with Miscarriage & Baby Loss, Sands.
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I work with clients with a variety of problems and challenges but mainly with those who suffer with anxiety, depression, emotional trauma and a sense of loss. I have a strong calling to support those who have experienced life changes and loss; bereavement counselling is a large part of my professional life; working 1:1 with clients and running bereavement support groups.
I work with adults aged 18 and above.
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Additional information
Individual Counselling costs £55 per session, Couples Counselling costs £100 per session. Bereavement Support Groups are sponsored therefore FREE of CHARGE to participants.
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I am working over a variety of platforms: face to face in person, telephone and zoom. I work during the day AND evenings.
