About us
Hi, and welcome to our profile.
We are a small group of Guernsey counsellors with a range of skills and expertise who have joined together as a team under the umbrella of Island Counselling. Our aim is to provide a dependable, reliable service that offers flexible and affordable counselling to the Guernsey community.
Please visit our website, or why not contact us with any questions or concerns.
Training, qualifications & experience
Sue Holbrook ~ offers counselling for many issues including, Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Domestic Abuse, Historic Childhood Neglect/Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Trauma, Relationship issues, Self Esteem, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Bereavement, Life Transitions.
Beatrice Pentland ~ offers counselling for a range of issues, these include bereavement and loss, relationships, anxiety, depression, stress, eating disorders, PTSD, work life balance and others. Sometimes it's hard to put a label on what you may be facing and you may just be stuck with life and need someone who can listen well and help you find a solution and a way forward. Counselling can be emotionally challenging yet life-changing given the right support.
Anne Bodman ~ helping you with issues including anxiety, depression, low self esteem, stress, bereavement, life transitions, trauma, addictions, historic childhood neglect/abuse, eating disorders, anger management, relationship issues, etc.
* Please see website for therapists full qualifications and experience. *
Member organisations *
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.

Association for Christian Counsellors
The Association of Christian Counsellors is a professional body representing and setting standards for Christian counselling and care in the UK. The organisation is made up of various different membership categories, including Counsellor and Accredited, and requires all members working as counsellors to undertake Continuous Professional Development on a regular basis.

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.

National Counselling Society
The National Counselling Society
This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations.
In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
- Individual sessions: £50
- Couple sessions: £50
- Concession rates available.
Counselling sessions will last for up to one hour, and the number and frequency of sessions will be discussed and agreed with you. The number of sessions a client needs varies from person to person.
Your counsellor might suggest that you mutually agree to work together for 6 sessions. Generally, 6-10 sessions is considered short-term therapy, whereas longer term therapy is considered to be more than 10 sessions. The number of sessions will depend on each client's individual needs, and can of course be discussed further.