Carolina Parker Frohlich
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About me
A very warm welcome to private Integrative psychotherapy and counselling with Carolina.
Specialising in: * Anxiety * Depression * Low self-esteem * Relationship issues * Family issues * ADHD * Bereavement * Adult Trauma * Childhood Trauma * Attachment * Work-related Stress * PTSD * Anger * Addiction * Identity * Mental Health Disorders * Burnout *.
I work with women’s health, men’s health, couples, students, and private healthcare insurance referrals, in person from my private practice in the Surrey Hills GU5 and London, and online worldwide.
I provide bespoke integrative psychotherapy, counselling, and coaching to suit the unique needs of each person. I have extensive experience as an integrative psychotherapist, counsellor, and coach, offering long-term psychotherapy, short-term counselling (12+ sessions), or single-session therapy (one-off), providing a confidential and safe sanctuary for you to explore your emotions, behaviours, relationships, and life's complexities. I also provide EMDR therapy to address trauma (Eye-Movement, Desensitisation and Reprocessing), DBT, and third-wave CBT.
Whether you're navigating emotional pain, destructive relationship patterns, trauma, physical pain, or monumental life events, therapy with me serves as a unique relationship alliance characterised by empathy, trust, knowledge, understanding, and confidentiality. I provide empathic, nonjudgmental, and insightful support for you to explore your emotions and thoughts at your pace. With a compassionate demeanour, I bring a unique blend of clinical expertise and a nuanced understanding of human behaviour and its complexities. My approach is enriched by extensive experience and a diverse professional background in mental health, corporate world, academia, high-performing industries, health and wellbeing, and psychology.
A normal part of being human is experiencing challenges in life, but sometimes those challenges may feel overwhelming. When life events bring about pain or distress, they may prompt us to question our fundamental beliefs; we may begin to reassess our habitual responses and explore alternative ways of being. As we don’t choose our genetic and developmental background, the journey of self-exploration can be challenging, perplexing, and intricate. Research indicates that seeking professional therapy significantly increases our likelihood of success in the recovery process. Psychotherapy can be a powerful, life-changing experience, enabling you to overcome emotional, relational, or social challenges, to bring the unconscious into the conscious, to improve your mental health, and to fulfil your incredible potential and journey in life.
My integrative approach allows me to work with your presenting issues and symptoms in the way that is most helpful to you and your understanding of your relational world. I facilitate the way forward for you to make different choices that will empower you to improve your mental health and physical well-being. Together, we will work on strategies that allow you to address and overcome any symptoms of suffering and adversity you may be experiencing, understand the root causes of your difficulties, allow you to build stronger foundations for your mental well-being and develop the skills you need to thrive in both personal and professional spheres, helping you feel more empowered to live a more fulfilled and happier life.
My strengths lie in my capacity to build strong relationships with my clients, whereby you feel understood and supported, while simultaneously adapting my intellectual rigour, clinical expertise, and psychotherapeutic knowledge to best meet your specific needs. Together, we can explore current and past experiences, and discover new ways of approaching challenging situations, providing practical coping strategies that will support your psychological well-being. It's like exploring the ocean's depths while also riding the waves. It addresses the whole you—mind, body, and soul. It's not just about symptoms, but your overall well-being and happiness, empowering you to be an active participant in your own healing journey.
Integrative psychotherapy is like the eclectic playlist of therapeutic approaches—I combine different clinical evidence-based methods and a comprehensive range of psychological and clinical therapies tailored to suit the unique needs of each person, considering your specific issues, symptoms, personality, and preferences. Integrative therapy is versatile and flexible, drawing on many different psychological theories and therapeutic models to help you explore and manage your symptoms.
My integrative therapeutic style is relational and empowering with a strong leaning towards humanistic, person-centred, attachment theory, trauma-informed neurobiological approaches, psychodynamic, transactional analysis (TA), Third Wave CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), existential theory, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), EMDR, somatic, and interpersonal neurobiology.
WHAT RESULTS CAN YOU EXPECT?
The therapeutic process is a deeply personal and transformative journey unique for every one of us. It requires dedication, effort, and a willingness to delve into the inner self, and explore one's thoughts, feelings, emotions, behaviours, and experiences. Integrative counselling and psychotherapy open the door to a wide range of positive transformations, including:
- Calmer ways of being and interacting with yourself and your relationships.
- Gain profound insights into the root causes of your challenges.
- Address current life challenges, process past trauma, and develop strategies for future resilience.
- Understand the triggers behind unhelpful thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and actions.
- Greater understanding of how neurobiological processes affect your body and mind.
- Cultivate new, effective behaviours that yield positive outcomes in both life and relationships.
- Surpass self-imposed limitations, discovering a realm beyond negativity.
- Attain a sense of equilibrium, bringing balance to various facets of your life.
- Craft and pursue goals that resonate with your inner well-being.
- Bring greater levels of self-awareness and happiness.
- Unleash the untapped potential of your mind, body and soul.
- Embrace a more open and receptive approach to life's journey.
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I invite you to embark on a journey of self-discovery and growth, where the challenges you face become opportunities for transformation.
Please visit my website above for more information about me or my practice.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have more than 25 years' experience empowering people to overcome symptoms of adversity. I trained in London at the Metanoia Institute, the highly regarded leading London psychotherapy training school, where my training was thorough and rigorous. I am accredited as a psychotherapeutic counsellor with Metanoia, and MBACP registered with the (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy), Counselling Directory, and the UKCP.
I hold a Post Graduate Clinical Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy; First Class BA Honours in Business; PGCE in Secondary Education; a Diploma in Clinical Assessment and Psychometric Testing and Neurodiversity.
I am also a highly experienced and qualified ICF executive coach (International Coach Federation), leadership coach, careers coach, existential coach, mindfulness coach and expert in neurodiversity. I regularly attend continual professional development seminars and workshops on current issues including interpersonal neurobiology, trauma-informed neurobiological approaches, DBT, mentalisation, EMDR, and contemporary clinical therapy techniques.
As part of my values of giving back, I volunteer at a women’s abuse centre and for students at the University of Surrey.
I am professionally insured and clinically supervised fortnightly and adhere to the principles and ethical guidelines of the BACP ethical framework (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), NCPS (National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society, and UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapists). I’m a member of the:
- Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP)
- National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society Accredited (NCPS)
- Counselling Directory
- UK Council for Psychotherapists (UKCP)
- The UK Psychological Trauma Society (UKPTS)
- The European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)
- European Mentor and Coaching Council (EMCC)
- Life Coach Directory
I hold an Enhanced DBS - Disclosure and Barring Service checks. I evaluate my work through feedback from clients and using Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluations (CORE). Independent analysis of my work shows that over 95% of my clients showed reliable and clinically significant improvement during their counselling with me.
TRAINING, QUALIFICATIONS AND CPD
Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling (BACP accredited)
MSc Integrative Psychotherapy
Accredited Diploma in Transformational Coaching (ICF)
BA (Hons) in Business, 1st Class
Clinical Application of the Polyvagal Theory
Certificate in Supervision, CTSD London, Centre of Supervision and Team Development
Certificate in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBST)
Certificate in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Gottman Method Couples Therapy Levels 1&2
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Levels 1&2
Clinical Assessor of General Intelligence, IQ, Giftedness and SpLD, British Psychological Society
Post Graduate Certificate in Secondary Education (PGCE)
Post Graduate Diploma & MSc SpLD and Neurodiversity
Supporting women through the menopausal transition
Certificate in Existential Coaching
Certificate in Somatic Coaching
Certificate in Mindfulness Coaching
Certificate in Women and Gambling Related Harms
Trauma Release Exercises
The Essentials of Psychiatry
Keeping university students safe: self-harm and suicidal ideation
Ask Me training, domestic abuse
Psychiatric diagnoses
Safeguarding adults and children
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
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This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I work with.
I am experienced in treating a wide range of mental health conditions and difficulties, including but not limited to:
- Anxiety disorders: panic, phobias, social anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), health anxiety, Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Mood disorders: Depression, Post-Natal Depression, low mood, Bipolar Disorder
- Personality disorders: EUPD, BPD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Emotional regulation difficulties including difficulties with self-harm
- Low self-esteem and confidence difficulties
- Anxiety and depression
- Stress and worry
- Relationship difficulties
- Childhood trauma
- Separation & Divorce
- Family issues
- Neurodiversity: dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADHD, ADD, Asperger, ASD, Sensory Processing Disorders
- Children's issues
- Life transitions
- Mid-life crisis
- Panic attacks
- Confidence crisis
- Bereavement, loss and grief
- Existential crisis
- Neurobiology and nervous system regulation
Therapies offered
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Fees
£95.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Free 15-minute introductory consultation via Zoom
Individual psychotherapy or counselling - 50 minutes - £95
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Single Session Therapy (one-off session)
Organisations funded psychotherapy
Couples therapy
Clinical Supervision
Trainee therapists - reduced fee
Assessment without written report
Assessment with written report
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To arrange an initial appointment, please email me here - or at carolina@talking-therapy.uk (email is preferred as I'll be in sessions and can't pick up calls). I aim to reply within 24 hours. Thank you.
I look forward to speaking with you.
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Further information
I have been giving psychotherapy, counselling, and coaching all over the world, including London, Ibiza, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Japan, San Francisco, New York, Canada, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain.
