Chloe Yu
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About me
Hi! A warm welcome for landing on my page. I have been fascinated by people since a young age and it has been a great privilege to be able to study psychology and counselling to retrain as a psychologist, after an initial career in the city.
As a psychologist and an experienced counsellor, I recognise people come to counselling for a wide range of reasons, be it to nurse a broken heart, relieving workplace stress, navigating an acute life crisis or maintaining a sense of emotional wellbeing and many others. I see counselling as a highly collaborative journey and my role in the process is to offer an open, contained and compassionate space where all your worries and concerns can be safely explored and reflected on with gentle probing, which hopefully will lead to deeper self-insights and positive resolutions. Through my own life experience and study, I have come to realise that the many problems we face in life, although seemingly unrelated, often lead to the same root cause and we often carry on reacting to events unconsciously in a familiar pattern that may no longer serve us. Counselling offers an unique opportunity for us to come together to explore and reflect on your unique life events past and present, so we can uncover all these underlying emotions and buried histories and in the process lessening their impact on us so we can carry on living life more freely.
Although I am highly trained academically, my practice is fundamentally underscored by key humanistic values such as compassion, fairness and deep respect for dignity and suffering. What I aim to offer is a genuine emotional exchange that is filled with compassion and understanding, while also informed by the latest psychological theories and clinical best practice.
My training equips me to deal with a wide range of life issues such as relationship breakdowns, workplace stress, life and career transitions and fertility and parenting struggles. I am particularly interested in working with clients from highly pressurised work environments and those who are dealing with relationship breakdowns, facing fertility struggles or navigating major life transitions. Given my own ethic background, I am also keen to work clients from migrant and ethnic minority background who are keen to explore their identity and cultural heritage. Last but not least, I am also very interested to work with clients who self-identify as highly sensitive and/or highly intelligent.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am currently a third year doctoral trainee in counselling psychology and also a fully qualified BACP registered counsellor. I am primarily trained in existential-humanistic approach, though my practice is also informed by CBT/DBT theories and psychodynamic thinking. I have completed a number of successful counselling placements in the NHS services and low cost counselling center, and have been running a small private practice for just over a year. I intend to keep my private practice relatively small alongside my doctoral study so I can offer clients a dedicated service whilst also benefiting them from high quality, regular supervision provided by my school.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I have particular interest to work with clients who self-identify as highly sensitive and/or highly intelligent.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My in-person sessions are priced at £65 per session which are taking place in London Bridge/Greenwich. My online sessions are currently priced at £60 per session for a limited period only. I also offer a reduced fee £40 per session to students, counselling trainees and people who are unemployed. A limited number of low cost places are also available to clients from marginalised background, such as refugees or asylum seekers.
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I currently offer most of my sessions during the weekend to benefit clients who maintain a busy working life during the week. I offer sessions either online or in-person in Greenwich.
