About me
My name is Beth and I'm an integrative therapist, working online in the UK and online and in person in France. Thanks for checking out my profile. I offer a warm, welcoming space for you to explore how you are, who you are, and where you are.
Perhaps you have struggled for years, or more recent experiences have brought up challenges for you. Together we will look at your strengths and struggles, and your personality and history, whilst keeping in mind the pressures of the wider world. I practice in an open way that is sensitive to the individual, but informed by my understanding of human development, relationships and trauma.
My style of being is natural, friendly and authentic, and I work collaboratively with each client, bringing warmth, receptiveness, curiosity and challenge. My role is to support you in your own process, by listening, noticing, asking questions and investigating with you, to help you sense into where you are, make sense of what you find, and try out new ways of seeing or being. I strive to work in an anti-oppressive, inclusive way, and my pronouns are she/her.
I work with adults (age 18 upwards), and I see clients once a week at a regular time. Sessions last 50 minutes.
I recognise that every therapy relationship is as individual as you, that selecting a therapist based on some words on a screen isn't easy, and that finding the right fit really matters. For this reason, I offer a free initial session of 50 minutes, so prospective clients can get a sense of what it will be like to work with me, without making a financial commitment. For more information about me, you can visit my website. You can contact me at: beth@wakingground.com or by phone on 07786 386978 (from the UK) or 07 56 80 46 14 (from France). If calling, please leave a voicemail, and I will call you back.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an integrative therapist, which means my work draws on theory and practice from multiple fields of counselling and therapy, including attachment/psychodynamic-oriented approaches, Embodied Relational Therapy (ERT), Trauma-informed Stabilisation Therapy (TIST) and Gestalt. My personal experience of counselling began many years ago, and encompassed a number of different therapeutic modalities, which informed my decision to train as an integrative practitioner. 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
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
The humanistic aspect of my integrative therapy orientation means that I focus more on the individual person, than on their conditions, though I respect the fact lots of people find labelling and diagnosis useful and important. In my experience, we can only find the right therapist 'match' for us by meeting the person and seeing how it feels, but I encourage clients to trust their own judgment and intuition in how they approach selecting a therapist, and in deciding to go forward, or not, with a therapy relationship.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 - £75.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My standard fee is £65 per session, or £75 for those with access to financial resources of £80k or more per annum. This fee structure enables me to offer a below-standard rate to people on a low income, who would otherwise would be unable to access therapy.
Further information
For enquiries and to arrange an initial consultation please email or call. If calling, please leave me a voicemail with your contact details, and I will call you back.
