Billie Dunlevy
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This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
* I have daytime online availability open for new and returning clients - please contact me via email to set up a telephone consultation.
I don’t take enquires on behalf of someone else. If you are looking at my website for someone else seeking therapy please ask them to get in touch with me personally to talk about availability and what they are hoping for from therapy. *
My aim is to help you better understand yourself and find more manageable and meaningful ways to live. I love the work I do, and I'm dedicated to being part of the benefits of talking therapies that can help individuals to transform their lives.
You don't have to struggle with whatever is hard for you right now alone. Working with a professional provides you with a compassionate witness for your story and someone who can work with you to bring more ease into your life. Anxiety, depression, life stress and low self-esteem are experienced by many people. Making space to be supported in this is a brave step that shows yourself, you matter.
My areas of expertise and experience include:
- Understanding and harnessing perfectionism
- Life with ADHD
- Life transitions
- Low self-esteem and identity issues
- Living a childfree life by choice
- Enmeshment and Abandonment issues
- Loss and Grieving
- Childhood emotional neglect
- Complex dysfunctional family dynamics
- Dating/Relationship issues
I help clients to reach a deeper understanding of their issues allowing them to make changes and move forward. My approach is direct, supportive and challenging. I’m not the kind of therapist who sits, stares and says nothing! I will listen with curiosity and care, but I am also here to gently challenge you and offer you insights to help guide you to realisations. Sharing parts of ourselves can feel vulnerable so it’s really important that you choose someone you feel comfortable talking to as the quality of the relationship between client and counsellor is key to good therapy outcomes.
For this reason, I offer a short phone call before our first session, for you to get a sense of what it might be like to talk to me each week and to suss out if that is something you could imagine for yourself. This is an opportunity to see if we are a good fit for one another. Please take a look at my website to get a better feel of how I work.
The working therapy relationship is more than being able to get along; the way we show up in a therapeutic relationship offers a window on the world of how we are in all our relationships. A significant part of the work of therapy is to explore, better understand and help you shift if needs be your relational patterns. This is achieved not through tools and techniques for your to take away, but through being in the therapeutic relationship week on week, and in time, us exploring what that’s like and what comes up for me that I observe as your practitioner.
Some of my work with clients is focused and structured around agreed goals or outcomes while other clients suit a longer term approach that is explorative; particularly if their needs are more complex.
If you would like to find out more about having counselling with me, please contact me via email with a brief outline of why you are seeking counselling at this time. It is also helpful if you share your availability times/days of the week for a potential weekly session. Please also state if you are looking for Zoom sessions or in person sessions.
From there we can arrange a phone call at a time that suits you. Please note I only work on a weekly basis with new clients.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have completed 4 years of postgraduate BACP accredited training including:
- Advanced Diploma Humanistic Integrative Counselling
- Diploma Humanistic Integrative Counselling
- Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling Birkbeck University
I engage in regular ongoing training & personal development in line with the guidance of my governing body BACP. More details of my recent CPD can be found on my website.
I also hold a professional qualification in Mindfulness and Compassion awarded by the counselling and psychotherapy body.
Member organisations
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.
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
Fees
£95.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I only work with new clients on a weekly basis.
When I work
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Current Online Availability: Daytime sessions Mondays/Fridays
Current In Person Availability: Monday evening.
In person sessions: Monday evenings only in West Hampstead Location.
Further information
I see clients online across the UK and my in person sessions are run out of a private and comfortable space close to West Hampstead train station.
Alongside weekly therapy, I offer brief, solution focused support via Mental Health MOT sessions. A mental health MOT employs the transformative approach of single session therapy, helping you to achieve meaningful outcomes, clarity and tools to take forward. Email me to talk about availability.