CAROL GORDON (MBACP) Registered

Carol Gordon - Counsellor Psychotherapist, Counselling Supervisor, MBACP (Registered)

Counsellor Psychotherapist/Clinical Supervisor/Life Coach
Mob: 07572 113 517

Hi, my name is Carol and I am a qualified registered accredited trained experienced independent accredited BACP registered qualified Counsellor Psychotherapist with  over 11 years experience and I am registered member of BACP (Membership ID Number: 641017)

I am also a BACP, MBACP accredited qualified Clinical Supervisor. As well as a Life Coach.

I am a qualified Counsellor Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Life Coach

My client base are adolescents from 14 years and adults.  I have experience in individual counselling, couples counselling and family counselling.

As a person of dual culture, Black Afro Caribbean and born British, I have the the dual blessing of being able to explore the impact of culture on identity, diversity, and of cultural differences and experiences on interaction. I feel it is important to consider how one might take a client′s cultural context into consideration.  I practice CBT, Person Centred, Gestalt, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Existentialism.

I truly believe that having a relationship with yourself, is like any relationship; difficult and full of many ups and downs.  Without carefully tending to it however,  living a fulfilling life with self and others becomes difficult.

Why did I become a Counsellor?

I chose a career in counselling because of my personal therapeutic experience with my Counsellor, which left me with a strong desire to support and help others in dealing with their anxieties and challenges of daily living.

I am based in South East London and my practice is within easy reach of Catford Bridge Train Station as well as Catford Train Station. 8 minute walk.

Primarily I work from a humanistic/Person-Centred perspective and I truly understand that sharing one's thoughts can be a challenging process, as it sometimes speaks the unbearable and can become over-bearing, triggering underlying emotions such as panic attacks, depression, anxiety and behaviours.

Therapy often begins with curiosity into the unknown and my role within the alliance is to have NO judgments or condemnation, just respect and to provide you with a safe confidential place to explore according to your agenda.

As a Counsellor/Psychotherapist, I work from a psychotherapy theological approach, which aims to provide an environment in which the client does not feel under threat or judgement. This enables you the client to experience and accept more of who you are as a person and reconnect with your own values and sense of self-worth facilitating a re-connection with your inner-self, finding your own way to move forward positively. As your Counsellor, the alliance is to understand your experience from your point of view empathically and to positively value you as a person in all aspects of your humanity while aiming to be open and genuine. The extension of my attitude is without judgments or prejudices and with the acceptance of diversity which facilitates your inner awareness to become self-actualized. As you the client experiences myself the Counsellor within the relationship, what I bring to you the client is total acceptance of humanity from an integrative approach fusing them together which is crucial for the success of therapy and positive growth. My clients find me insightful, intuitive, humorous, pragmatic and down-to-earth, which in turn brings integrity within the alliance -'A Vision of Transparency'

Clinical Supervision

My role of a Clinical Supervisor is to provide support and advice upon issues that arise during the therapist's clinical work i.e. therapeutic techniques, therapeutic relationships, difficult problems, ethical decisions or issues that impact personally upon the therapist caused by the therapeutic process.  I offer a 1:1 or small groups, a space to reflect and clarify what is evoked by the work and explore reactions to those experiences, ensuring that the work is done in such a way that can be accountable for the monitoring and quality of the work being done.

With my experience as a Clinical Supervisor, my approach can now only be described as eclectic and thus very much 'tailored' to the individuals or groups I work with.