Caroline De Francesca

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location_on Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

About me

My practice focuses on self exploration and building awareness of mind and body processes to nurture understanding and restore balance. By expanding our awareness we can expand our choices and our ability to overcome patterns of behaviour that are not serving us anymore.

Between us, we will experiment with new and creative ways to navigate the issues you bring to therapy. I invite you to explore your experience and to meet you where you are. To support you to find your own agency so change can come from within.

Training, qualifications & experience

I trained for 4 years as a gestalt psychotherapist. This approach speaks to me as it focuses on what is being experienced now through our bodies as well as through our thoughts and feelings and the meaning we make of this.

I bring to my practice my experience as a social worker of over 30 years working predominately in the field of fostering. I have been continuously amazed by the unique potential of every human being and the power of a healing relationship.

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

I work with people who are experiencing a range of challenges including anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, relationship issues and gender, sex and relationship diversity. 

Therapies offered

Fees

£50.00 per session

Middlezoy, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7

Type of session

In person
Online

Types of client

Young adults (18-24)
Adults (25-64)
Older Adults (65+)

Key details

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Caroline De Francesca
Caroline De Francesca