Charlotte Harry
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About me
I offer a welcoming, non-judgemental, down-to-earth space to work through whatever it is you’re dealing with right now - long-term or shorter-term.
You may want to address a specific problem or concern, or explore deeper issues and patterns, gaining a greater understanding of yourself and your relationships in the process.
I work with adults age 18 and over.
How I can help
My aim is to help you work through whatever’s worrying, upsetting, infuriating, confusing, or blocking you in some way.
This may be linked to all sorts of things, from your relationships, family, or work to your sense of self and self-esteem or feelings of sadness, depression, anxiety, shame, resentment or anger.
It might be about your stage of life, sense of meaning and purpose, and decisions about what's next.
You may not even be sure exactly what’s wrong – you just know something's not working and you want some support.
What to expect
Weekly therapy allows you to freely explore your thoughts and feelings, helping you see the wood for the trees. It can give you new understanding and insight about yourself and your approach to life and relationships, helping create the conditions for growth and change.
Exploring your past experiences, upbringing and unconscious patterns and behaviour can also help make sense of what's happening right here, right now.
Importantly, you can start to develop new, kinder ways of understanding and relating to yourself.
While providing a safe, understanding space to explore whatever's present, I'll also offer you supportive challenge and a fresh perspective on what's going on for you.
Looking to the future, not just the past
Therapy can also involve working out what you really want from life, and from yourself. If you're struggling to find meaning in life, it can help you move towards this, fulfilling your deeper purpose and potential.
I work from the perspective that everyone has this capacity for growth, whatever your current circumstances and however difficult or stuck things might feel right now.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm a BACP-registered therapist, with a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling from the Psychosynthesis Trust.
About integrative and psychosynthesis counselling
My main approach is integrative and psychosynthesis based. Psychosynthesis takes an all-encompassing view of who we are: this means working with your mind, body, feelings and soul, as well as your intuition and will.
It draws on different therapy approaches and techniques, so we can find out what works for you.
Ways of working
Much of the time, we'll simply be talking. We'll also bring mindful awareness to what's happening in your body, thoughts and feelings.
I may sometimes suggest things like drawing, inner dialogue or working with images and visualisation, if this feels helpful to you. However, the way we work together will always be tailored to your individual needs and preferences, and at a pace that suits you.
Qualifications
I hold the following qualifications:
- Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling – Psychosynthesis Trust (awarded by Middlesex University, accredited by the BACP and UKCP)
- Certificate in Psychosynthesis Foundations – Psychosynthesis Trust
- Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy – CCPE (Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy Education)
- MBCT (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy) foundational certificate – Oxford Mindfulness Centre
- Mindfulness-in-schools teaching certificate (secondary pupils) - Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)
I'm also a training assistant at the Psychosynthesis Trust, London - a centre for self-development and counselling/psychotherapy training.
Confidentiality
I’m committed to ensuring that your information is secure. I have procedures in place to safeguard and secure any information I collect.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I also enjoy working with:
- high sensitivity
- self-expression, self-development, personal growth and self-realisation
- embodiment (coming more into your body and out of your head)
- embracing 'the shadow' (the parts of ourselves we dislike and/or disown)
- working with 'parts', like the inner critic, the pleaser, the saboteur (similar to Internal Family systems or IFS)
- inner child work
- relationship and attachment issues
- creativity and creative block
- 'mid-life crisis' (or, as Carl Jung put it, 'the middle passage' between the two main halves of life)
- menopause and peri-menopause
- grief and loss (including and beyond bereavement)
- the search for meaning and purpose
- exploring your sense of spirituality
Fees
£65.00 - £70.00
Additional information
Initial session
Our initial session is a chance for you to find out what it would be like to work together. It'll also help me understand more about you and what you’re looking for from counselling to make sure we're a good match. There’s no obligation to continue after this session.
The initial session is at a reduced fee of £55.
I'm happy to arrange a free 15-minute chat by phone first. (Please indicate this when you complete the contact form.) This can help you decide if you'd like to book an initial session.
Weekly sessions
If we decide to work together, I’ll ask you to commit to a further eight sessions. After that, we can review whether and how you’d like to continue.
Sessions are once a week, for 50 minutes.
The fee is £65 for online or £70 for face-to-face.
Further information
The in-person premises I work from currently do not have a lift and involve several sets of stairs. I do offer online sessions too, so if mobility is an issue I'd invite you to consider this option.
