Charlotte Medlicott
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About me
I am an experienced and BACP-accredited psychodynamic counsellor. Making the decision to come to counselling can be an enormous step forward in itself. I work with all sorts of people on a wide range of issues, with the aim of gaining insight and clarity into not just the difficulty that brings you to counselling, but what lies beneath it.
I work psychodynamically. This means that I am particularly interested in your early experiences and how these have shaped your thinking and relationships in ways that both help and hinder you. This may be in relation to individual difficulties, or you may need help within your couple relationship. You may have come to counselling because you are aware of patterns in your life that feel impossible to break, or because you are overwhelmed by difficult feelings that impede you from feeling as though you are really living your life. We will work together to identify and explore how the conscious difficulties you are experiencing in the present may have their origins in old, unconscious attempts at solving these difficulties. It is these attempts that can lead to distress, keeping us stuck in unhelpful patterns.
I regularly work with clients across a wide range of issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, identity issues, abuse and bereavement. I specialise in open-ended, long-term psychodynamic counselling, but also offer shorter-term work if appropriate.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BA (Hons.) Modern Languages (Oxford University)
- Certificate in Counselling Skills & Theory (Enfield Counselling Service)
- BACP-accredited Diploma in Counselling (Basingstoke Counselling Service)
- Trauma Training CPD
- Couples Counselling Training CPD
- Seminar Leader on Basingstoke Counselling Service's Certificate in Counselling Course (levels 2 & 3)
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.
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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Fees
£60.00 per session
Further information
You are welcome to contact me by telephone or email. I will arrange a telephone call with you within a few days and, if appropriate, an initial session so that we can think about what has prompted you to seek help. It may be that you wish to address a particular issue through a smaller number of sessions, or feel that longer-term therapy that can address underlying difficulties will provide you with a greater understanding of yourself.
