Carol Yates
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About me
How can Therapy with Carol Help you?
Counselling is a wonderful tool for helping anxiety, depression, trauma, psychological and emotional problems. Stress and anxiety creates pain and discomfort in the body and problems can seem insurmountable. I know you can be helped and urge you take that first step in contacting me for a chat. I have over thirty years experience in helping people as a Senior mental health practitioner with the NHS until l I stepped back in 2020 and became self employed as a counsellor using body mind approaches to manage anxiety generally, health anxieties, pain, trauma in the body, depression, psychological and mental health problems.
My basic nature is empathic and sensitive, a person who gains from supporting people on their journey to becoming healthy and well. I have worked in England, Wales and New Zealand as a community Mental health nurse, Counsellor and Yoga and Somatic Therapist. And I love working alongside people on their self healing journey.
Some of the Conditions I can help you with: ANXIETY, TRAUMA IN BODY AND MIND, DEPRESSION, MENTAL HEALTH, BIPOLAR, PAIN, STRESS RELATED CONDITIONS eg IRRITABLE BOWEL, LOW BACK PAIN
I work creatively using the following:
- Client centred Counselling
- Somatics, mindfulness, yoga therapy
- Sand tray
- Interactive Drawing Therapy
- Imagework
- Emotional Freedom Technique (commonly known as EFT).
- Somatic psychotherapy, especially good for Health Anxiety
Your first session
Attending your first session is a great achievement. You have made a decision and followed it through. Well done! The unknown is always nerve racking but I want to reassure you that I use a non-judgemental, empathic approach inline with the client centred humanistic counselling of my training. The key element of this first session is for you to feel safe and know that it is a confidential space in which to explore feelings and thoughts that cause you pain. There will be no pressure on you to talk about things that cause you discomfort, this is something you will decide yourself. I will be helping to sort out with you what areas you need help with, together we can begin to feel some hope of finding ways to resolve the pain you may be feeling.
My Background
For the past thirty years I have gained rich experience as a community psychiatric nurse and counsellor, helping people with psychological trauma associated issues, chronic anxiety and depression. Stress has a huge impact on body, mind and emotion and can be helped with counselling in addition to breathing techniques and gentle movement. I creative approaches in addition to listening empathically.
The Clinical Somatics I offer in addition to counselling is proving very effective in regulating the nervous system, reducing stress and anxiety and realigning the body. Suffering pain or discomfort can be very depressing. I know this from having suffered back pain that disabled me from activiies I previously enjoyed. I'm delighted to say this has now been healed through a self practise of Somatics, a process that educates the muscles how to release tension, allowing the energy to flow freely and creating a sense of well-being and strength within the core of oneself. The outcome is also directly reducing pain as the muscles learn how to release tension. This also has a positive influence how you feel emotionally.
AWARD: I was awarded the annual Celebrating Excellence trophy 2017 for supporting staff of Leicestershire NHS trust in their health and well-being. This gave me an opportunity to reach out and support NHS mental health staff in community teams where I introduced self care strategies and helped teams focus on the need for a self care approach for workers. This proved very sucessfull lowering the rate of sickness of staff in some of the teams that embraced the self-care approaches.
NEXT STEPS Please do get in contact with me for a free 30min phone call, you're welcome. I look forward to helping and supporting you.
I work in Torbay, Totnes and Brixham in Sth west Devon area. Face to face, online and telephone sessions.
Please feel free to visit my videos and learn more about how to use breathing techniques and Somatics to calm oneself and regulate emotions.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma Of Humanistic counselling. Warwick university
- Registered General Nurse
- Registered Mental Nurse
- Diploma in Imagework
- Certificate in Integrative Arts in Education and Therapy
- IDT Interactive Drawing Therapy stages 1, 2 and 3 qualified in New Zealand
- 500hrs Teacher training in Integrative Yoga Therapy with IYT Brazil
- Yoga for Health Teacher Training. UK
- Somatics for Yoga teachers. Clinical Somatics Certificate 1 & 2
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Photos & videos
Fees
£45.00 - £60.00
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60.00 per individual session
10% discount for six sessions = £54.00/session
I offer a sliding scale option min. £45.00 ................ £60.00
I can help you apply for funding for: Domestic abuse;
Free initial consultation of 30mins via telephone or face to face
When I work
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There is some flexibility with my working hours if booked in advance
Further information
My therapy room in Brixham is an upstairs room, the property overlooks Torbay. I have a specialised Somatic couch and use an infra red mat to work on. This helps the muscles relax more readily and is very comfortable.
In Totnes Natural health centre there are steps up to the centre.
Devon clinic as mentioned has a wheelchair accessible downstairs room.
