CYC
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About us
CYC (Child and Youth Counselling), is a service run by Basi a qualified Registered and Accredited Member of the BACP.
CYC works with children, young people, parents, adults, and supervisees online. CYC undertakes hybrid work with organisations.
CYC works with anxiety, low mood and low self esteem, caused by family breakdown, work or academic stressors. CYC has almost two decades of experience supporting clients with these concerns.
- CYC Young person service offers a safe space where young people can express and explore their needs. If they are struggling with school, college, university or work, feeling under pressure, low self-esteem or generally feeling unhappy.
- CYC Parent Service: experiencing difficulties with your children or young person, please contact CYC for a consultation (charged). Consultations explore a range of issues such as low self-esteem, difficulties with friendships, issues with perfectionism and concerns about culture and identity. Parent /Child struggles may relate to difficulties navigating relationships following separation, divorce or integrating into a blended/step family. Communication may have broken down and family needs have become misunderstood. As a parent you may be experiencing a sense of loss because your child is leaving for university. CYC offers a specialised parent service that can also help if you are generally struggling and in need of support as parent.
- CYC Adult service offers you safe and confidential therapeutic counselling. Issues may stem from your childhood, current relationships or be work related amongst other issues. Do not hesitate to reach out and we can discuss how CYC can help you.
- CYC Clinical Supervision for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Therapists, Trainees, Groups and those in the helping professions. Collaborative and supportive online clinical supervision.
- CYC schools, Child/Youth Focused or Adult Mental Health organisations - Offers a tailored service for your mental health and counselling service needs. Please do not hesitate to contact CYC for further information of what we can bring to your organisation.
CYC is an integrative service we tailor to each individual client, supervisee or organisation and their unique set of needs. Please do not hesitate to contact CYC to discuss your specific requirements.
Training, qualifications & experience
Accredited and Registered member of the BACP and adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Associate Member of the Barbados Society of Psychology.
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling children and a Masters. Experienced Counsellor/Therapist in schools for almost two decades.
Specialise in working with children and young people, parents and adults.
19 years experience of working with children, young people and adults, in other emotional supporting capacities, across a range of community and organisational settings.
Completed a Diploma in Integrative Supervision of Individuals and Groups with a distinction in an ACTO (Association for Counselling and Therapy Online) approved General Certificate in Online Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Children - we specialise in relationship issues with peer and siblings, support children to express their emotions safely, work with transition anxiety (school, college, university and work), family breakdown, adult/child relations, hyper vigilant/sensitive children, bereavement and loss, young carers support, perfectionism and those children with identity/heritage concerns.
For older children and young adults we specialise and have experience in working with family breakdown, anxiety and the affects of separation and divorce, fragmentation/step families, substance and alcohol misuse, sexual health and making responsible choices, risky behaviours, teenage/young pregnancy, controlling/coercive behaviours within young intimate relationships and familial relationships.
Adults support with relational issues whether they stem from intimate relationships, family, work related concerns. If you have or still struggling with a break up of a significant relationship, loss or bereavement.
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.
The Association for Counselling and Therapy Online
Areas of counselling we deal with
Other areas of counselling we deal with
CYC works with emotional, behavioural and social concerns.
In addition CYC works with transition (secondary school, college, university or going into work), exam pressure (e.g. SATs, GCSE's, IGCSE, AS/A-Levels, IB Diploma, BA, MA etc.), alongside a range of issues: low mood, bereavement, poor relationship with food, identity, friendships, anxiety, and family issues.
In addition to these issues we also offer support around sexual health and forming healthy relationships at any age - young person/Adult.
CYC works with Care Experienced or those in Special Guardianship - children or young people who may reside in various home settings, as well as children who have issues around identity and their own sense of displacement and belonging, and we offer support for Young Carers.
We also work with Care Experienced adults, who at any stage of their lives, entered and had an experience of local authority care.
Do not hesitate to email CYC and we will endeavour to respond within 48 hours Monday to Thursday. Or if contacting on Friday within 72 hours.
Therapies offered
Fees
£95.00 - £120.00
Additional information
Please note there is a charge for consultations and parent reviews.
CYC charges a reasonable fee for the specialist work offered.
Once the frequency and nature of the work needed has been discussed and agreed upon we will agree upon a fee.
CYC offers limited low income/benefits based (with current evidence from the appropriate agencies) fee for weekly appointments only to be discussed.
When we work
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Availability Mondays and Wednesdays. Other times by arrangement.
Supervisees Only - availability Monday, Wednesday day time and Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
Further information
CYC Integrative Counselling Service uses creative and talking therapies. We draw upon a range of counselling and therapeutic methods to support individual children, young people and adults to reach self-reliance, resilience and understanding of their own lives.
CYC Clinical Supervision service offers a safe, boundaried and containing space to reflect upon the content and process of your work and self-care including explorations around risk within the therapeutic process. CYC supports supervisees to improve their personal and professional resources, to be proactive, ensure ethical decision making support and a high quality of work integrity.
