Christine Jarvis
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Welcome to Counselling with Christine
I offer a warm, safe, therapeutic space for you to talk about what is on your mind.
As a mature counsellor I have lived experience of relationship, emotional, loss and bereavement issues. Personal counselling helped me through some really challenging times. This experience fuelled further my passion for supporting others to help them find balance, peace, and self-understanding, as they travel through life.
What to expect from Counselling with Christine
As a Person-Centred Counsellor I specialise in client led therapy, placing you at the heart of the process, to help you explore and understand matters that are troubling you. I am led by you to talk about what you want to talk about.
Together we will build a safe, confidential, space where you can share your deepest thoughts and feelings. We can work towards finding answers, solutions and strategies, enabling you to regain balance and ultimately thrive in all aspects of your life.
Getting in touch
It is really important that you get on with your Counsellor, that you trust them to support you at perhaps one of the most challenging times of your life. Following your initial enquiry I will contact you to agree a time and date for a 15-20 minute telephone call giving you the opportunity to ask any questions as well as getting to know each other a little. There is no obligation, my aim is to help you decide whether I am the right Counsellor for you. From there, if you are comfortable, we will arrange your first session. Sessions usually last a 50 - 55 minutes.
My Location
- In person counselling sessions are from a quiet, private, confidential room in my home.
- I also offer online and telephone counselling to anywhere in the UK.
- I cover Uttoxeter and surrounding areas, including Ashbourne, Burton, Draycott in the Clay, Rugeley, Stafford. I am only a couple of miles off the A50 from the Sudbury roundabout.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
After four years of studying I obtained my Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling at South Staffordshire College.
Training
Continuous professional development is a requirement for all counsellors, keeping our skills fresh and up to date. Some of the training I have undertaken include:
- Bereavement and loss
- Sexual Violence, Domestic Abuse
- Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Trauma informed therapy
- LGBTQ+
- Working with neuro-divergent clients
- Foundation for Infant Loss / Bump2Baby
Experience
- I am an experienced Grief Counsellor working and volunteering at Cruse Bereavement Support.
- Volunteer Counsellor for survivors of Sexual Violence and Abuse at SARAC (Sexual Violence Rape Advice Centre.
- Childline Helpline Volunteer.
I have experience working with adults of all ages with a range of life issues including anxiety and depression, bereavement and loss, low self-esteem, workplace issues, relationship difficulties, sexual abuse, domestic violence and eating disorders/body image.
Ethical Body
As a qualified Counsellor I am a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (membership number: 407857) working within their ethical framework. I am insured, have DBS clearance and regular supervision.
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
£45.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
In-Person Sessions £45 per hour.
Online and Telephone Sessions - £45 per hour.
Student Rates - If you are a student of counselling, please contact me for student rates.
I will require payment 24 hours prior to the session and 48 hours notice of cancellations.
When I work
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I can be flexible with days and times for counselling so please feel free to ask if the days above don't work for you.
