Annette Ansell
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About me
I'm a successful, accomplished and professionally recognised Client-Centred psychotherapist and online business mentor. I have helped thousands of people over to achieve good mental health, wellness and a highly positive sense of self.
However, that wasn't always the case for me.
About 30 years ago I was suffering a lot with stress, anxiety, depression and the oncoming menopause. I was in a new relationship and had moved from Leicester to London for a new job (with a toxic boss), house, and culture. No wonder I thought I was going mad.
It was then that I decided to go for counselling myself, to try and sort out what was wrong with me, to see if it was all physical, all mental or maybe both.
As it turns out, I learned a lot about myself, learned to love myself, and most importantly I learned I could train as a counsellor myself. That was 35 years ago; I have been in private practice since.
Because of my experience, I feel passionate about people's right to emotional and psychological recovery and wellness. I believe we all want and need unconditional love, positive regard and respect, we all want empathy, a genuinely congruent relationship, and unconditional acceptance, whether or not we have serious problems or crises.
I work with anxiety, depression, relationship issues including narcissistic abuse (which includes emotional abuse and bullying), affairs and betrayals, panic and anxiety attacks, eating disorders, separation and divorce, bereavement, low self-esteem, sexual abuse (current and historical), people with (or who suspect they might have) autism and LGBTQ+ sexuality issues, including the impact of prejudice and discrimination (my pronouns are she/her).
I also offer personal development, and therapeutic personal and professional coaching.
We often want someone to listen without judging or taking over and telling us what to do, what to think, how to be. Some of us worry that talking to friends or family will burden them unreasonably with our worries, concerns and anxieties.
Therefore we need time, freedom and a good active listener to explore our problems and we want to be trusted to discover our own solutions and strategies, to notice what feels right to do, or where to go next. Talking things through with a trained qualified and experienced therapist can be useful to get clarification or resolution. I also offer other (inexpensive or free) resources which can speed up your therapeutic process and save you time and money in therapy
For more information about my way of working as a therapist, visit my website www.londoncounsellor.org.uk
Supervision: In my supervision of other counsellors and psychotherapists I feel passionate about working to the same ethos and values with which I work with clients. I feel strongly that it's vital to hold a non-judgemental, empathic and genuine attitude towards supervisees, such that they feel free and safe to bring all their developmental issues to supervision, without any fear of criticism. My aim is to help supervises unpick what is working well and what is not, and get clear about why, and to help them keep on track with their approach, philosophically, theoretically and hence practically.
I am an External Examiner for Brighton University and University of East London counselling and Humanitarian Intervention (respectively) degrees and MSc.s.
I believe in and adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice, and I am a Registered and Accredited Member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP) and the World Association for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling (WAPCEPC).
I work in Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, face to face and online.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a BA (Hons), an MA and a Diploma in Counselling, as well as a Diploma in Supervision. I’ve two Masters, on from the University of Kent at Canterbury, the other from University of East London.
I trained in counselling a psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute and I'm an External Examiner for counselling courses at Brighton University and University of East London.
I gained my Diploma in Supervision from the Institute for Person-Centred Learning.
For the last 18 years I have been training and practicing Natural Horsemanship and Humanality; a theory of personality, psychology and body language which helps us understand ourselves (and horses) and others and gives us confidence and insight into what is natural and positive about ourselves, including how to communicate more effectively and successfully with people who are different from us, along with a better understanding of those whose behaviour might be at least mystifying, at worst, downright exasperating! I have had considerable success using the Humanality Report as a personal development tool for clients, supervisees and coachees.
For testimonials visit my website's Testimonials page at www.londoncounsellor.org.uk
Member organisations
school 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.
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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This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Identity and personality, or Humanality characteristics using a model of personality which takes account of introvert/extrovert, left-brain/right-brain innate characteristics to help us understand ourselves and others. I focus on positive attributes to enhance self-development and avoid overuse of those attributes that leave us burnt out and distressed, and ways of communicating more effectively so as to get the best out of others and make the best of ourselves.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£90.00 per session
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Standard Fees:
For counselling and supervision (per 50-minute session)
£90 Individuals
£125 couples.
For personal or professional therapeutic coaching, initial session £100 for up to 2-hours, as necessary. Ongoing sessions £90 an hour. Equine therapy £140 an hour
A session length is 50 minutes. If you feel your situation is critical you can ask for double sessions or twice-weekly sessions.
Please note that 48 hours notice is required in order to avoid payment in full for a late cancellation or missed session, unless it can be rescheduled within the same week. many thanks for your understanding.
When I work
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I have some availability most days but cannot guarantee regular slots at the same time; please ask when making your enquiry.
Further information
If you would like an initial session please contact me, either by phone or e-mail:- Mobile: 07931 333 679 E-Mail: annetteansell.1@gmail.com
If you would like to know more about me then you check out my website on www.londoncounsellor.org.uk.
FAQs Will you be talking to anyone about me? Everything you tell me in therapy will be strictly confidential with very few legal and ethical exceptions.
I talk about my work with a qualified, professional supervisor but I would not talk about any identifying facts about you; the focus of supervision is on continually improving my way of working, not on my clients' business.
How long will I have to come for? There is no set number of sessions for which you would be expected to come; that will be entirely up to you.
Will I have to come every week? In the beginning stages of counselling most people find that coming every week for 6-8 weeks is helpful to get going. Then you are more likely to know what frequency might work best for you; after then you can always adjust frequency if you think you need more or less.
What about cancellations, will I have to pay for those? So long as you give 48 hours notice of a cancellation you won't have to pay for the missed session.
