Catherine Davies
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About me
Hello and Welcome,
I'm Catherine and I work from my discreet and relaxed garden room in Titchfield Common.
Talking to a professional that is completely separate from your family and friends, will give you a unique opportunity to talk freely about your thoughts, feelings, values and decisions, enabling you to get to the bottom of what is troubling you and how to improve your day to day living.
How will Counselling help?
Things generally start becoming a problem when issues are swept under the carpet, ignored or surpressed, often resulting in symptoms of depression, anxiety, overwhelm and panic.
Throughout the process of therapy I will offer warmth, insight and new perspective, and with greater self-awareness, you will recognise where you have choices, and how to implement change.
What I can help with
I have experience in working with a wide range of issues such as low self esteem, lack of confidence, isolation, anxiety, depression and bereavement. I do have a keen interest in helping people cope with life-change, stress, self-doubt, problem childhoods and relationship problems.
I will listen to you openly, without judgement offering my full support. New awareness and the offering of new perspectives gives us choice back, we are able to recognise unhelpful patterns of behaviour that we might have been repeating. A renewed sense of hope, fulfilment and contentment is likely to follow.
As an experienced integrative therapist, I draw upon a variety of counselling skills (including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)) to support you through life's challenges and help you regain agency over your life, be in more control and live happily.
Experience
Solent Mind
Life Changes Counselling Service
Private Practice
If you feel ready to explore how these, and any other issues, are affecting your day-to-day life, and wish to think about how you can move forward, I am a safe and sensitive counsellor to work with.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BA (Hons) Integrative-Relational Counselling
- Level 2 Counselling Skills
- Dip Psychology
- Domestic Abuse Training
- Creativity within the therapy room
- Mindfulness in the Counselling Room
- Creative Approaches to Autism
- Problem Gambling
- Depression: The Cause and Solution Training
I am trained integratively, which means I am able to draw on a number of different theories/approaches including Psychodynamic, Person Centred and CBT in order to tailor to your particular needs.
I am LGBTQI+ and autism aware.
I am committed to my continuous professional development, and attend regular further training courses.
I am a member of and work within the ethical framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy from the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapists (BACP). A copy can be found on their web-site: http://www.bacp.co.uk/ethical_framework/. My BACP Membership Number is 781282.
Member organisations
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
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
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
All sessions are £55 and are 50 minutes long.
What to do next?
You can contact me by text, phone or email to arrange a convenient time for our first consultation. Payment for each session is payable by cash on the day or by bank transfer 24 hours in advance.
Cancellations: I understand there may be times when you have to cancel and or rearrange a session. I will try to be as flexible as possible but require a minimum of 24 hours notice otherwise the full session fee will be payable.
When I work
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Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4pm.
Further information
I offer short- term therapy (often 6-12 weeks) and long-term therapy from my peaceful, semi-rural office in Titchfield-which is very near Whiteley, Stubbington, Hill Head, Lee-On-The-Solent, Locks Heath, Warsash, Hamble, Botley, Hedge-End and The Meon Valley. Short-term therapy often works well for specific problem areas of life, whereas long-term therapy is better suited to a person who wants to address recurrent patterns of distress, or is wishing to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Parking is available in the village and there are WC facilities within the therapy room.
