Billie Clark
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About me
Hi, I'm Billie and thank you for taking the time to view my profile.
I am an Experienced Psychotherapist offering services across Essex and surrounding areas and even further a field. Regardless of location working with the medium of online tools, location doesn't need to be a hurdle for you to start your journey of therapy.
Life can be unpredictable and often things are put in our paths that have an impact on our psychological and emotional wellbeing. Sometimes, these issues can take their toll, causing us pain and suffering, partly due to pushing them to the back of our minds, bottling up or just trying to ignore them in the hope they may just go away. Quite often we try to maintain a brave face and show the world that we can cope, but the reality is when we ignore difficult experiences, feelings and thoughts they are trapped inside. They never really disappear, they stay just in the background within ourselves, continuing to have an impact on our view of self, our relationships, our perception of the world and others.
You may have experienced an issue that is on your mind, or a difficulty has been triggered by a life event or a traumatic experience, such difficulties can affect your life and your relationships, particularly when they haven't been processed. Left unexplored and unexpressed difficult life experience's, feelings and emotions can impact our mental and physical health and further lead us to build and depend on unhealthy coping mechanisms.
A healthy alternative is to look after your emotional and psychological wellbeing by seeking therapy. Talking with a therapist can provide the opportunity to process and work through those difficulties and explore why they might be happening. Therapy also provides an opportunity to gain insight and awareness of yourself that you may not be aware of. With added insight things become clearer, you feel less stuck and your choices for coping and responding become broader and healthier.
I really do believe that you have the strength to not just survive, but to truly thrive.
Training, qualifications & experience
Here are some things about me I thought you may like to know.
My approach to therapy...
Firstly, the relationship with your therapist is critical
Therapy is about creating a safe and trusting environment in which you are able to express yourself as freely and openly as possible, where your pain and happiness are both welcome. By being offered a space to be authentic and vulnerable you can truly begin to heal, when we feel truly seen and validated.
Therapy can be Transformational, and that’s what I am here for, the opportunity for you to bring the messy, unfiltered and stuck parts of you. The parts you have hidden from those around you, in therapy you can take that mask off. We often carry with us our past fears and wounds as well as our painful experiences, this can leave us feeling stuck and left living with many emotions and feelings that are overwhelming and often destructive. By exploring you and all of you, you gain an insight and awareness of yourself, your patterns of living, your ways of coping and managing that may not be working or alternatively are destructive to you. Therapy can provide information, alternative tools, choices and clarity. Therapy can be empowering and life changing and the reason for that is that you get to be, You.
As an Integrative Psychotherapist I am able to utilise and combine different theories and interventions, this has many benefits to this approach, but the most important to know now is that working Integratively enables me to provide the very best therapy for You, a completely individual approach, for you.
My experience
Throughout the accumulation of my experience since my initial graduation, I have had the opportunity to work with young people and adults both in the public and private sectors. Working within these sectors I have worked with many individuals with different presenting issues and challenges they were faced with.
I have worked with people individually and in group settings, facilitating both structured and unstructured group therapy.
I have been faced with great opportunities to write and implement a number of programmes for local charitable organisations within Essex. These include; Building Self-Esteem, Stress & Anxiety, Relationships & Intimacy and lastly a 12 Week Relapse Prevention Programme for substance misuse.
I have a natural want to learn and understand people, the mind and life and this has led me to seek and complete many courses for both personal and professional knowledge and development. One of the courses I have achieved is a Diploma in Supervision, which has led me to broaden my practice to working with Trainees and qualified Counsellors and Psychotherapists. This further sparked an interest in the development and training of the Counselling field and I embarked on the journey of lecturing on a variety of levels of courses. These included a number of levels starting with Basic Counselling Skills to the BA Honours at a local College of Further and Higher Education in Partnership with the Open University.
My qualifications
I am always embarking on continued professional development for many reasons, but here are the main core qualifications I hold, if you want to know more or my most recent, please get in touch.
- DipHE Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- BSc Hons Integrative Psychotherapy
- DipHE Supervision for Individuals & Groups
- Dip Addiction Counselling
- Dip Transpersonal Couples Counselling & Therapy
- Level 1 Gottman Method Couples Therapy
I am a Member of The British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy and adhere to their Code of Ethics.
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 - £115.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Online Therapy Services & Support
You can now access counselling services through your computer via Skype, Zoom or email. There is much research evidence supporting the effectiveness of online Therapy, this method of therapy has eradicated some of the limitations many encounter when seeking therapy. Online Therapy enables individuals to connect with specialists regardless of location and enables individuals to remain in the comfort of their own surroundings.
So whether you live miles away, find it difficult to leave the house or are restricted by time online therapy may well be for you.
Further online support via email & Instant Messaging will need to be discussed in relation to your individual needs.
Individual Counselling & Psychotherapy
Individual therapy sessions are arranged weekly/bi-weekly for the duration of 50 Minutes. Individual sessions aim to provide you with a safe environment to focus on building a healthy, open and honest therapeutic relationship, the foundations required for you to be able to speak freely about your presenting issues or concerns.
Fees
- £65 - Standard individual therapy for 50 minute session.
Reduced rates are available for students.
Young person & Adolescent Therapy
Many young people are struggling with how they feel, just as adults often find asking for help in relation to their mental health difficulties, imagine how daunting this may be for a young person.
Whether they are having problems with friends, family or school, are presenting symptoms of anxiety or depression or displaying signs of anger or fear. They may need to talk about how they feel with someone, but find it difficult to talk to someone they know.
Therapy can provide a space to help talk things through, offering support without judgement in confidence. Different methods may be used to those that are used in Therapy with adults. As there are other issues to consider, namely safeguarding issues. Furthermore, the aim of Therapy still remains the same, to help the individual to cope better with their feelings and aid the development of tools to manage on their own.
Fees
- £65 for 50 minute session.
Couples/Relationship Therapy
All relationships have ups and downs, sometimes things can get difficult and it can become hard to find a solution. Whether you are feeling things just aren’t quite right or your experiencing serious difficulties Therapy can provide you with time and a safe space for you both to explore authentically and support you towards a positive outcome. Sessions are arranged weekly/Bi-weekly for the couple, offered with difference in duration either 60 or 90 minute sessions.
Fees
- 60 Minute Session £95
- 90 Minute Session £115
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Evening Appointments are very limited, and currently i can not guarantee availability, although if you wish to enquire and discuss please do not hesitate to contact me.
