Christopher Headon
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About me
I offer a safe, confidential, and welcoming approach to all, either individuals or couples. Your concerns will be listened to thoughtfully with attention and respect. You will receive honest feedback. I believe that you are best helped by an interactive, creative, collaborative approach to resolving your problems, building upon your strengths, your positive values, and helping you move out of those areas where you are blocked, frustrated, anxious, depressed, unable to see yourself and others clearly, and feeling that the problems that you have, sexual or otherwise, will never go away. At the moment, given the problems around the delta variant, I am only working online (via Zoom). I have completed UKCP Covid-19 Online Working Guidance.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have extensive experience of working with psychosexual concerns, having been a member of Albany Trust Counselling for over twenty years up to 2011. My perspective on issues has been enhanced by living and working in Canada for sixteen years, primarily as an academic.
Among my qualifications and professional memberships are:
- St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. Diploma in Human Sexuality, 1989
- Albany Trust Counselling, London, Psychosexual Counselling Course. Certificate, 1983
- McGill University, Montreal, PhD, Department of Religious Studies, 1974
- Member of the Squiggle Foundation (D.W.Winnicott studies), 2000 to present
- Royal Society of Medicine, Associate member, 2021 to present
- Centre for Personal and Professional Development, Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, Certificate in clinical supervision, 1996
- Accredited supervisor, College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists, 1999 to present
- Accredited member, College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists, 1994 to present
- Registered psychotherapist, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, 1994 to present
- Senior Accredited member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, 1992 to present
Member organisations
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The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
COSRT is the UK’s leading membership organisation for therapists specialising in sexual and relationship issues.
All members must abide by their Code of Ethics and the performance of accredited members is regularly monitored.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
Additional information
Psychotherapy:
Individuals £75 each session.
Couples £90 each session.
Supervision
£75 each session
Further information
My special interests are:
Depression, Anxiety, Addiction, AIDS/HIV, Sexual problems, Supervision (especially in the psychosexual sphere).
Unfortunately the centres I work out of are not wheelchair accessible.
