Catherine McCormick
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About me
Hi, I'm Catherine,
I am a qualified integrative counsellor, specialising in working with grief, loss and low self-esteem. I work with individual adults, adolescents and children.
I believe to be truly heard and emotionally met where you are at can be an incredibly powerful and healing experience and can help towards cultivating a healthy inner life.
Seeking therapy takes courage and through my warm, collaborative and non-judgmental approach, I will attune and listen to you attentively. Therapy is designed to help untangle some of your thoughts and feelings, to help you understand yourself better and to give you a confidential space to work through what you might be facing in your life.
I have extensive experience of working with people of all ages with a wide range of issues. My role is to offer you a space for understanding, processing and learning how to manage your experiences. I have helped clients with issues such as grief, anxiety and self-esteem, depression, trauma, self harm, relationships, parenting, burnout, loss and identity. While my approach to counselling is integrative in nature, I also draw on the strengths of various other counselling approaches including attachment theory, person centred, psychodynamic and systemic theory.
I am passionate about my work and have also continued my professional development in areas such as child development, attachment and bereavement. I am currently studying for a Masters in Gestalt Psychotherapy.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have completed a BACP accredited Post Graduate Integrative Diploma with Place2Be (a leading provider of support for children’s mental health) and in collaboration with University of East London.
I have been seeing clients since 2017, working in schools, low-cost therapy settings and privately.
Prior to working as a counsellor, I worked in the music industry for many years. I am a classical pianist and I have taught music in schools. My approach to counselling is both creative and integrative in nature and this marries my sensitivities of a musician and a counsellor. I have lived and worked abroad twice ( in Amsterdam and Zurich) and this has been enriching for me from a cultural and diversity perspective.
I am fully insured and also registered with the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) and hold an enhanced DBS check
I am a registered member of the BACP, a member of the Swiss Association for Counselling and a trainee member of UKCP.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
£70 for 50 minutes.
When I work
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I work in person and online on Monday - Thursday in both West Norwood and Clapham Junction. Please contact me to check my availability as other slots may become available.
Further information
I offer an initial 15 minute chat on the telephone. You will have the chance to learn more about how I work and ask any questions that you may have.
