About me
How can Therapy with Carol Help you?
I help people suffering from mental health problems, anxiety and depression. These conditions have many affects; lack of sleep, inertia, lack of focus, bodily stress related conditions, being burnt-out, lack of energy and motivation, resulting in low self esteem. Counselling can help! Its your special and confidential space to off-load, share and express thoughts and feelings, lighten the load you're carrying and find ways to move forward. I would be delighted to offer my support and experience to help you move forward and lift out of what may seem like a hopeless state right now.
I love supporting people on their journey to becoming healthy and well. And have worked in England, Wales and New Zealand as a community Mental Health Nurse, Counsellor, Yoga and Somatic over the past 35 years.
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
- Dialectic Behaviour therapy
- Somatics, mindfulness, Integrative Yoga therapy
- Interactive Drawing Therapy
- Sand Tray
- Emotional Freedom Technique (commonly known as EFT).
- Clinical Somatics, 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. The key element of this first session is for you to get a sense and feel that it is a confidential space. The body is such a good indicator of feelings, it is important to allow yourself the opportunity of meeting a counsellor and feel how you experience being in the presence either online or in person with this person you wish to help you.
My Background
For the past thirty odd 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 the somatic movement therapy I can offer.
AWARD: I was awarded the annual Celebrating Excellence trophy 2017 for supporting health and well-being with my colleagues in a Psychiatric community team based in Leicestershire NHS trust. Many staff in these high stress environments experience burn-out! we developed a weekly morning Yoga and Somatics class, plus regular team activities such as lunchtime walks together and more, all proved very effective. Such was the positive impact over the NHS trust my role expanded to helping teams in the trust explore and initiate activities to help them feel less isolated and enjoy creative time together.
NEXT STEPS Thank you for checking out my profile you can contact me for a free 30min phone call. I look forward to helping and supporting you.
I work in Torbay and surrounding areas in Sth west Devon area. Face to face, home visits, online international, zoom, google meet and whats app telephone sessions.
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 at IAET college, Islington, London
- 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 & 3
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
Fees
£50.00 - £60.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60.00 per individual session
10% discount for six sessions = £54.00/session
I offer a limited number of concessions slots in my practice for students, trainees or those experiencing financial hardship
Free initial consultation of 30mins via telephone or face to face
Group class of Somatics and Yoga for health. £12.00 in-person Online £10.00 per session.
When I work
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Further information
My therapy room in Brixham is an upstairs room, the property overlooks Torbay and is very quiet.
The day centre venue in Brixham is wheelchair friendly and has a car park very close to the entrance.
Devon clinic as mentioned has rooms which have wheelchair accessibility downstairs
For those clients needing somatic therapy, I use an infra red mat.
