About me
I am a qualified therapist and counsellor working with adults and young people aged 13 and over. I am fully insured with Holistic Insurers and an accredited member of the NCPS (National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society), a professional body that upholds high ethical standards.
I have extensive experience supporting individuals who have experienced trauma, domestic abuse, and sexual abuse, as well as a long history of working with families who have faced significant adversity. I am trained in and regularly work with anxiety, depression, panic, grief, relationship difficulties, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and many other emotional and psychological challenges.
I work integratively, drawing on a range of therapeutic approaches to suit each individual’s needs. These include person-centred therapy, psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), trauma-focused CBT, narrative exposure therapy, and attachment-based approaches. This flexible way of working allows therapy to be tailored to you, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
I am passionate about building strong, trusting therapeutic relationships where clients feel comfortable, heard, and understood. I offer a safe, non-judgemental space where you can explore whatever may be causing you difficulties, while also developing greater self-awareness to support personal growth and change. I welcome anyone who is considering therapy.
Within our work together, I will share practical strategies and ideas to help you cope with difficult emotions and experiences, supporting you to feel more in control of your life and the direction you want it to take.
Training, qualifications & experience
I qualified as a therapist in 2019 and have worked as a full time therapist since.
I had my work placement hours working within a charity (WAVES counselling project) that supports adults who have experienced domestic abuse and with another service (Jigsaw post abuse service) supporting children, young people and their families that had experienced sexual abuse.
Since qualifying I have been employed by Jigsaw to continue providing therapy for children in care, care leavers and children and young people who have experienced abuse. I have also been working with a charity (FirstLight) providing therapy for adults and young people, mainly online, who have experienced abuse.
I have also had consistent private clients and have returning clients regularly.
Previous to this I worked for 13 years, within social care working with children in care and families on child protection, providing support and guidance to parents and working alongside social workers and other professionals in safeguarding.
Qualifications
- currently working towards - Level 6 equivalent; Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision, including online and telephone working.
- Level 4 diploma in Counselling Practice
- Level 4 certificate in Approaches to Working with Trauma
- Level 4 certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Certificate in Working with Loss and Grief
- Level 2 Certificate in Initial Counselling Skills
- Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce: Social Care Pathway
- GCSE's including Maths, English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics. etc
Training and CPD
- Analytical report writing - December 2011
- Protecting information; Learning Pool - 2012
- Suzy Lamplugh Lone worker Training - December 2010
- Report Writing - December 2011
- Effective writing skills - November 2011
- An introduction to safeguarding - June 2011
- Safeguarding Adolescence - November 2010
- Child development and indicators of Abuse - July 2010
- Level 2 initial counselling skills - 2003
- Disability equality training - 2006
- Drug awareness - 2006
- Level 3 Certificate in Counselling - 2006
- Domestic abuse awareness - 2006
- CAMAT tier 3 part 1 - 2008
- CAMAT tier 3 part 2 - 2008
- Integrated working training - 2009
- Manual Handling - 2008
- Domestic abuse and its impact on children - 2009
- Parental mental health and its impact on children - 2009
- The challenges of working with families - 2009
- Play in outdoor spaces; e-learning - 2012
- Neglect; e-learning - 2012
- Children experiencing Domestic violence - 2012
- Interagency child protection update - 2012
- Level 2 health and safety 2013
- Paediatric first aid - 2013
- Health and safety awareness; e-learning - 2014
- Information management; e-learning - 2014
- Signs of safety - 2013
- Identification and brief advice for alcohol users - 2014
- Theraplay - 2014
- Growing up with Trauma -2014
- Attachment modules 1, 2,3 and 4 - 2014
- DASH Training 2015
- Information Governance e-learning - 2015
- Safeguarding e-learning - 2015
- Multi agency awareness - 2015
- Family Partnership model - 2016
- Substance misuse Awareness - 2016
- Working with adolescents day 1 - February 2017
- Paediatric first aid - march 2017
- Working with Adolescents day 2 - April 2017
- Contact workshop for social workers - June 2017
- Contact workshop - September 2017
- 'stopping me see the people I love’, CSE - November 2017
- Understanding Neglect, an experiential approach - dec2017-jan 2018
- Suzzan Blac training - march 2018
- WAVES Domestic Abuse intense training - April-June 2018
- Alcohol AUDIT-C May 2018
- Motivational Interviewing - July 2018
- ASIST Training (suicide prevention and support) - August 2018
- Mental Health First Aid - November 2018
- Basic Drug Awareness - November 2018
- Level 3 Safeguarding - February 2019
- Working with Bereavement and Traumatic Loss; February 2019
- Introduction to personality disorders - adaptations - March 2019
- Level 3 Masked faces of the sexual perpetrator - May 2019
- Dual Diagnosis Training - June 2019
- Self-Harm Training - Nov 2019
- Child Abuse; Hope in healing - January 2020
- Sexual Violence Conference (safer futures) - Feb 2020
- Dealing with Distress; self-harm and suicide - March 2020
- Trauma and the body - March 2020
- Moving to online therapy in crisis - April 2020
- Working with Shame, Carolyn Springs - May 2020
- NET (narrative exposure therapy) Training - January 2021
- ‘I’ve got secrets’ dilemmas in CSA and disclosures - February 2022
- An introduction to concerning and harmful sexual behaviours - March 2022
- Bubbles to protect - April 2022
- Safeguarding adults online training - Sept 2022
- Safeguarding children online training - sept 2022
- Exploitation - April 2024
- Level 3 safeguarding - May 2024
- Trauma CBT IAPT - May 2024
- Identifying and responding to interfamilial sexual abuse - July 2024
- Gas and solvent abuse training - October 2024
- Responding to adolescent neglect level 3 - Jan 2025
- Sexting safeguarding - December 2025
I continue to go on training and relevant CPD to keep my knowledge up to date.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I will expect payment before or on the day of the session via a bank transfer, I am also happy for payment for multiple sessions to be made.
I offer a concessionary rate of 25% off for students and Trainee counsellors.
When I work
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I can be flexible in my working hours, so please do enquire if these times don't work for you.
Further information
I provide therapy online or on the telephone and have had training to do this, I find it works really well and makes therapy more accessible to people.
I am happy to use Teams, FaceTime, WhatsApp or voice calls.
I will provide a contract explaining terms for the therapy.
I will offer a free 30 minute phone conversation before starting the sessions so any questions can be asked and answered, we can then talk about booking sessions.
I am also happy for you to email any questions.
Please also check out my Facebook page - Kalmyn Therapy https://m.facebook.com/
