Beth Carley
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About me
Hello, and thanks for checking out my profile. I am an integrative therapist, working online. I offer a safe, confidential space for you to explore yourself and your experiences. Perhaps you have struggled for years, or more recent experiences have brought up challenges for you. We can all find ourselves stuck in repeating patterns of feeling, thinking, behaving and relating that developed to protect us or to allow us to cope with difficulty in the past, but which end up becoming a burden or barrier to fully living our lives in the present.
Whatever brings you to therapy, together we will address your own unique strengths and struggles, personality and history, whilst keeping in mind that our experiences are also shaped by our social, cultural and economic circumstances. My role is to support you in your own process, not by giving you answers, but by asking questions, noticing, exploring and experimenting with what hinders and helps you. Though I make use of neuroscientifically-informed understandings of our psychological development in childhood and adolescence, and of the functioning of the human nervous system throughout life, I work in an open way - I don’t offer one-size-fits-all "tools", and I don't undertake diagnosis, though I respect the fact that some people come with diagnoses and find having them very helpful.
I draw on the humanistic principle that moving towards acceptance of ourselves as we are, however painful that may be, is one of the most important and powerful changes a person can make in their life, creating space inside us for new possibilities to emerge. I support people with the struggle of living with uncertainty, grief and loneliness, acknowledging the fact that these are universal features of the human experience.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an integrative therapist, drawing on theory and practice from multiple fields of counselling and therapy – particularly relational psychoanalytic therapy, and attachment/trauma-orientated approaches. My personal experience of counselling first began many years ago, and has encompassed a number of different approaches, which informed my decision to train as an integrative practitioner. I believe my own experiences of life's challenges serve as an an important element of my professional toolkit, drawing on the ancient myth of the ‘wounded healer’. Previously I worked as a counsellor at Watford Women’s Centre, with female survivors of domestic abuse.
I hold a BACP-accredited foundation certificate and postgraduate diploma in integrative counselling from the Minster Centre, one of Europe’s leading integrative counselling and psychotherapy training institutes. I am a registered member of the BACP and have full professional indemnity insurance.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Further information
For enquiries and to arrange an initial consultation please email, call or text. If calling, please leave me a voicemail with your contact details, and I will call you back.
