Cassie Barfield
About me
I feel very strongly about supporting people through the challenges life can bring. Whether these challenges are related to work place stress, burn-out, relationships, health, life transitions, bereavement, mid-life re-evaluation, menopause, or struggling with lone or co-parenting, our sessions will help you discover ways to change negative patterns and behaviours and enable you to move forwards.
I am able to offer ad-hoc sessions to people who work shifts and unable to commit to regular weekly session.
Counselling is a collaborative process with its foundation set in having a strong therapeutic relationship with the client at its heart. Everyone should have the chance to tell their story and be heard. Counselling affords that opportunity; I believe that we all know how to heal, given the right support and environment.
I believe our past experiences are intrinsically linked to our values, beliefs, expectations, behaviours, and views of ourselves today. The messages we received about ourselves and our place in the world from caregivers and those in authority have a significant impact on how we develop emotionally. I will guide and support you while you learn to give yourself new messages, make positive changes in your belief systems, and change negative patterns.
I am also very interested in the mind-body connection, and the link between repressed emotions and the manifestation of physical symptoms and have worked with clients experiencing chronic illness.
I create a supportive, confidential environment fostering an inquiry into a deeper understanding of oneself and ones experiences.
My approach is integrative and adapted to suit your needs at that moment. While training, I specialised in Transactional Analysis, but also work with Gestalt, CBT, psychodynamic, and many other theories. I lean towards engaging with our spirituality and understanding how the energy that surrounds us affects us.
If you are interested in exploring how we could work together, please email or phone me for an informal chat or to book a free 30-minute introductory appointment.
I am currently working through Zoom, walk-and-talk sessions (daytime only in winter) and am open to working from home for those who prefer face-to-face contact. I normally also practice in rooms the BS7 area.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
- Diploma Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling
- PGCE in Further Education
Additional Training
- Mindbody Connection and chronic illness
- Working with Shame
- Working with Addiction
- Working with Trauma
- Working with Disorganised Attachment
Member organisations
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Work place stress
Burn out
Therapies offered
Fees
£45 per 50 minute session
