Chris Webster
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About me
Everyone has the right to access their truest and highest potential.
I am a professional Artist and also a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (MBACP) with over 6 years of training and over 2000 hours working with clients in 1:1 and group therapeutic settings. I also have over 10 years experience with psychedelics and deep meditation practices.
Creativity
Many of my clients are people who wish to be more creative. We will work through a combination of mentoring and psychotherapeutic techniques to to tap into brighter ideas, more zing and a greater sense of flowstate. You may be here as an existing creative who wishes to elevate their practice while overcoming internal barriers to creative success, or someone who doesn't feel very creative at all but is feeling a pull towards this path.
I have worked internationally on art projects and exhibitions, and combine my roles to offer counselling, coaching, and mentoring.
ADHD / ASD
Having grown up with ADHD, being diagnosed as a child and again while at university, I have developed a specialism in working with neurodiversity and harnessing the strengths associated with these conditions while reducing limitations. If you are seeking a diagnosis or have been diagnosed with ADHD/ASD, we will be able to work together to make sense of this and how to best move forward.
About the space
Our work will involve feeling into past experiences where necessary, with a view to tapping into your brightest possibilities and clearing away blocks to change. We will work with talking therapy and the option to use embodiment, drawing, movement, vocal exercises, waking dreams, play, and other creative practices.
I provide a safe space to talk about potentially harder topics like shame, shadow, sex, kink and taboo. We will also explore race and decolonising therapy should this support our work together. We may explore projections in realtime as they happen in session.
Fees & Energy Exchange
My standard fee for 1:1 sessions is £93 (face to face) or £69 (online).
We are in tough times, so I am also open to mutual exchange and other non-capitalist ways of working. If you do not have the funds right now but can offer one of the following skills, we may be able to agree a mutual support arrangement:
- Website design & development
- Video editing
- Graphic Design
- Social media marketing
- Motion Graphics
- Web3 Development
- Copyright support
- Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop editing
Do let me know if you would like to suggest an alternative energy exchange.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training
- PGDip: Psychosynthesis Counselling - Psychosynthesis Trust
- PGCert: Psychosynthesis Counselling & Psychotherapy FDN - Psychosynthesis Trust
- BSc: Psychology with Clinical Psychology - University of Lincoln
Selected Additional Training:
- Sacred Sons Immersion
- Mental Health First Aid
- Unconscious Bias
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Supervision
- Reflective Practice Facilitation
- Mental Capacity Act & DoLS
- Mental Health Act
- Care Act
- Personality Disorder
- Group Facilitation
Experience
- 7+ years working 1:1 and in group therapeutic settings
- Substantial work with clients transitioning onto their creative path.
- Longterm practices in yoga, tantra, dreamwork, and meditation.
- Multiple 10-day vipassana meditation courses.
- Internationally exhibiting artist
Registrations
- British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Professional Indemnity Insurance.
- Information Commissioners Office (ICO).
- Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS; Enhanced)
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
- Psychospiritual crisis
- Increasing creativity and performance at work
- Integrating psychedelic experiences
Therapies offered
Fees
£69.00 - £111.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
- Discounts for block-bookings.
- I accept major cryptocurrencies.
- I accept some forms of mutual exchange.
When I work
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Further information
In light of the changing economy I am willing to take major cryptocurrencies and consider some non-monetary forms of exchange, provided this does not cause boundary issues in the therapeutic relationship.
I deliver collective care workshops throughout the year on a solidarity economy and donation basis.
