Chris Allwright
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About me
Are you struggling to cope with stress, anxiety or the effects of traumatic events in your life? Are you stuck with difficult feelings and/or circumstances and need help to find a way through them? Or are you looking for answers to “where do I go from here?” Please contact me for a free consultation. I’m always committed to finding ways to help.
My Background
With over 30 years’ experience in mental health and wellbeing I have worked with all ages, from secondary school through to end-of-life care. During this time I have worked with people in many different challenging, traumatic and complex circumstances. I am confident to deal with any issue.
I trained as a Person Centred counsellor between ‘95 and ‘98 (Nottingham University) and added further qualifications in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Business Coaching over the following years. In the past year I have also undertaken further training in supporting clients with PTSD and complex trauma.
Since the first lockdown I have also been a volunteer counsellor for Frontline19, supporting frontline NHS staff. Prior to this, my work with clients had been solely face to face and local to the Derby area. However, the impact of the lockdowns have taken the majority of my work online for the time being and also expanded my practice to nationwide.
How I work with you
During our first counselling session I will:
- Listen to you carefully, respectfully and non-judgementally
- Work with you to identify and clarify your underlying concerns
- Offer you strategies that can make an immediate impact on your current situation, e.g. techniques to manage anxiety
- Work with you to identify our goals for counselling and a plan to achieve them
I often provide tasks to undertake between sessions to help to embed progress and accelerate change. I also use my time in between sessions to reflect on our conversations and explore themes and ideas for use in our next session.
I always offer a free initial consultation to enable you to assess whether counselling is the right step and whether I am the right counsellor before you make a commitment. Appointments can be face to face, telephone or video call, during the day, weekday evenings or Saturday mornings. I also offer ‘walk and talk’ sessions.
Contact me now. You can call or text me directly on this phone number or, if you prefer, send me a message and I’ll make contact with you, just let me know how you would like to be contacted - email, phone or text. Finding the courage to take that first step may be daunting but it will make a big difference to your situation.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a BACP registered counsellor with the following qualifications and training:
Certificate and Advanced Certificate in Counselling (University of Nottingham) 1995 - '98
Certificate in Stress Management (Centre for Stress Management) 2000
PG Certificate in Business Coaching (University of Derby) 2006 to '08
Certificate in Trauma and Body Based Approach 2020
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial in-person or online session
Additional information
£50 per 1 hour session
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Appointments can be face to face, telephone or video call, during the day, weekday evenings or Saturday mornings. I also offer ‘walk and talk’ sessions.
