About us
We are a small, well-established charity that has offered professional psychotherapy and counselling for over 30 years in Bristol, Bath and the South West. We are based in central Bristol.
We offer individual psychotherapy and counselling with experienced therapists. We also offer group therapy, which might be suitable for some individuals. We believe in making therapy widely accessible, offering a reduced fee service (where available) to those who need it alongside our general therapy service.
Training, qualifications & experience
We are a group of experienced and fully accredited/registered therapists (BACP, UKCP, BPC and/or HCPC) who have undergone either psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, integrative or art therapy training.
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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.
The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
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 we deal with
Fees
Additional information
Our general psychotherapy and counselling service initial assessment fee is £95, with a fee of £70 per session - this is for weekly, in-person sessions with no limit on the number of sessions.
Our reduced-fee psychotherapy and counselling service initial assessment is £45, with a fee of £25-£35 per session - this is for weekly in-person sessions for 16 weeks. Eligibility for those that are unemployed, receiving state benefits, earning a low income, and/or students. Individual situations can be discussed further.
