Bistra Slavkova
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About me
As a qualified and registered Psychotherapeutic counsellor I focus on empowering children and teenagers to cope with the challenges of growing up. Anxiety, stress, academic pressure, feelings of hopeless, sadness or isolation, family and peer conflict can affect children and young people in many ways. I provide a compassionate therapeutic space where they can explore, and process heavy feelings, bringing healing and developing coping strategies for the future.
My Integrative approach includes:
- A Strengths-Based perspective to therapy based on Carl Rogers’ three basic attitudes of empathy, acceptance and genuineness, as well as respectful curiosity, towards the client’s lives and stories they tell. The strengths-based mode focuses on the client’s strengths, skills and resources, and works through establishing an alliance, elaborating strengths and concentrating on the client’s goals and wishes.
- Art and Play interventions used to improve self-esteem and self-awareness, to nurture emotional intelligence and resilience, to improve social skills. Also used to encourage permissions to play and existence, spontaneity and curiosity, as well as creativity, which is vital for authenticity and reaching autonomy.
- A Transactional Analysis outlook on developing self-awareness and mindfulness, the client changes their state of mind and behaviour from a dysfunctional script to redecision and healthier coping, reaching autonomy.
- A Humanistic Psychology view, emphasising the individuals’ inherit drive towards self-actualisation, encouraging creativity, free will, personal responsibility, self-exploration and positive human potential.
Training, qualifications & experience
Driven by a passion for supporting young individuals, I uphold principles of empathy, trust, and confidentiality in my counselling approach.
I have worked with a diverse range of clients, helping numerous children and families navigate through their challenges.
My therapy approach is integrative, incorporating techniques from various therapeutic modalities to best suit the needs of each individual young person.
Qualifications and Work Experience
- Diploma - Children and Young People Psychotherapeutic Counselling - The Northern Guild
- BSc (Hons) Child Development Psychology - London South Bank University
- Early Intervention Children and Family Wellbeing Practitioner at the Anna Freud Centre
- Clinical Practice on Placement with Place2Be
- Clinical Practice on Placement with Tsunami Counselling (Ark Schools and Dukes Education)
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
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
Initial Assessment
£75 fixed fee for approximately 1.5 hours long assessment
- both parents and children must attend
- online or in person (£90 for home visits)
- includes a summary of the assessment and proposed treatment plan sent via email up to 5 working days after the assessment.
Psychotherapeutic Counselling Packages
- 12 sessions (3 months long intervention) – £60 per session/ or £75 if on Saturday
- 16 sessions (4 months long intervention) – £60 per session/ or £75 if on Saturday
£50 for parent review mid intervention – 30 mins long
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