Caroline Lacey
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About me
Welcome. Today is where things start to change. Every problem can find its solution. Let’s begin, together. I am a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist in Telford and have over 15 years of experience in helping people achieve real and lasting emotional wellbeing. I hold accredited status with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (https://babcp.com) and am fully qualified. I offer face-to-face appointments in my welcoming and friendly, light and airy office, although Zoom video sessions can also be arranged.
I can provide treatment for a wide range of difficulties, including, but not limited to:-
- depression
- general anxiety (worries and nerves)
- health anxiety
- panic
- phobias
- body focused repetitive habits (for example skin picking, nail biting, hair pulling and lip chewing)
- social fears/anxieties
- agoraphobia
- obsessive compulsive disorders
- perfectionism
- low motivation (procrastination)
- low self esteem
- body image difficulties
- trauma (PTSD)
- anger management
- stress
- attachment difficulties
My therapy style is very personable, down-to-earth, real, honest and compassionate. Together, we will help you understand yourself better, your problems better, and to learn and effectively implement evidence based strategies to support your therapy goals and achieve good emotional and psychological wellbeing.
At an initial assessment appointment, I will listen carefully to your difficulty and your experience of it, and we will seek to understand it from a thoughts-feelings-behaviours point of view. We will agree goals for treatment and consider how you would like things to be different going forward. You can check I'm someone you would like to work with, and we will ensure that CBT would be the best fit. I will then draw up a tailored treatment plan for you and your individual circumstances, and which I will support you with over the coming weeks.
CBT has a strong evidence base and is the most extensively tested therapeutic intervention. It is the treatment of choice for a range of emotional difficulties, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). It is just as effective as medication for mild to moderate depression, and better than medication for some anxieties. When combined with medication, it can provide excellent outcomes, and has been shown to reduce future relapse. CBT is very focused, structured and highly collaborative with joint work and input from us both.
I work integratively so that I may offer you the most tailored treatment plan possible for your difficulties and goals. In combination with CBT, therefore, I use motivational interviewing, counselling and behaviour change tools and techniques, and also provide treatment based on Mindfulness, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Compassionate Mind, Internal Family Systems, inner child work, attachment theory and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Please feel free to call, text or email me with any questions, or to find out more. If you send me an e-mail and you haven't received a reply within 24 hours, please check your spam box. I look forward to speaking with you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BABCP accredited Post Graduate Diploma in Adult CBT (University of Derby)
- BABCP accredited Post Graduate Certificate in Adult CBT (University of Derby)
- OCN Certificate in CBT (Manchester Centre for CBT)
- BSc (Hons) Health Studies
- NOCN Certificate in Counselling Skills
Before becoming self employed, I worked for the NHS for 11 years in an award winning public health weight management team. Within this role I have supported many hundreds of morbidly obese clients who wished to lose weight through lifestyle change. I have also trained at the Manchester Centre for CBT and worked within an NHS Psychological Services team where I treated GP referral patients.
All therapists are required to undertake a minimum of 1 hour clinical supervision per month, together with 30 hours continuing professional development every year to ensure their practice, knowledge and skills remain safe, ethical, relevant, evidence based and up to date.
Member organisations
The BABCP is the lead organisation for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the UK. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the practice, theory or development of CBT. BABCP also provides accreditation for CBT therapists. BABCP accredited members adhere to the Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics in the Practice of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, and are willing to be scrutinised in this adherence as required.
Accredited register membership
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
- Overweight
- Obesity
- Morbid obesity
- Comfort / emotional eating
- Binge eating (without purging)
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I offer individual therapy sessions at a standard rate of £55/hour.
An initial session gives us a chance to explore what’s bringing you to therapy and see whether we feel like a good fit to work together. There’s no obligation to continue after this — it’s simply a starting point.
Ongoing sessions
Most clients begin with an initial 6-session phase, meeting weekly or fortnightly. This gives us enough time to properly explore what’s going on and start making meaningful progress.
We review together at the end of this period and decide how you’d like to continue.
When I work
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Further information
What you can expect from me:-
Confidential - a safe space to be heard and understood.
Professional - accredited therapy you can trust.
Practical - tools and support for real life.
Effective - helping you move forward with confidence.
I look forward to hearing from you.
