Claire Glover
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About me
Different things bring us to counselling but choosing who to work with can be hard and so I offer an initial 30 minute phone conversation to answer any of your questions and to start to explore how it may feel for us to work together.
About you...
Life may have thrown you some curveballs recently, or maybe past events are surfacing and you are looking for some help to work through these. I am here for you and offer a space to explore what is going on for you and, at your own pace, help you to gain insight, understanding, peace or fulfilment.
About me...
I am experienced in supporting people with a wide range of issues including depression, anxiety, relationship breakdown and understanding and working with trauma. I have worked with people encountering difficulties within thier professional or academic setting and well as helping clients navigate and understand childhood emotional neglect. I work in a trauma informed way, bringing curiosity and compassion to our work and helping acknowledge that strategies and ways of being that may have helped us in the past may no longer be doing so. Together though we can understand and make changes to this
I have twenty years life experience working in mental health, education and performing arts and have lived and worked overseas for a period of time. I work both short and long term with clients from comfortable and private rooms in the centre of York .
How we could work together
I believe that you are at the heart of the work we do but am aware that this in itself can sometimes feel quite overwhelming. I offer a compassionate, non-judgemental space for you to express yourself and can offer more focused activities to help you reach a greater understanding of yourself and the issues that have brought you to counselling. I may work creatively, helping you to access others areas of the brain to gain insights and to explore what may be hard to put into words.
I work from a relational point of view, finding that often the way we connect with ourselves and with others influences are emotions and ways of being. I also draw on Gestalt theory exploring the mind/body connection, as well as understanding the latest neuroscience and nervous system theory. I am influenced by the work of Janina Fisher, Stephen Porges Bessel van der Kalk, Gabor Mate, Kathrin Stauffer (to name a few) who help provide understanding as to why we act as we do. Exploring this further and spending time understanding who we are can leave us feeling happier and more at peace.
Our first session
Our first session will be an opportunity for you to explore what has brought you to counselling and explore any aims you may have. I will also explain a little more about the way we will work together and there will be opportunity for you to ask any questions about me or our work.
I offer flexible ways of working with the option to meet weekly, fortnightly or based around work schedules.
Practice description
I am a founding partner of York Counselling Practice (www.yorkcp.org). I charge £65 our hour and offer face-to-face counselling in central York in a comfortable and spacious room off Bishopthorpe Road. I am always happy to chat to perspective clients about what they need and how I work and so please don’t hesitate to give me a call on 07764 528138.
Training, qualifications & experience
Registered member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
PostgradDip in Counselling - University of York St John - Distinction
Certificate in Counselling Practise – York College and University of York St John – Distinction
BSocSci – University of Birmingham – 2.1
Just as we are continually evolving,I believe passionately in continuing to learn and develop as a therapist. Some additional training I have done includes
- Exploring the dynamics of attachment in adult life (Una Mcclusky)
- Introduction to Gestalt (Manchester Gestalt Centre)
- Working with depression (Manchester Gestalt Centre)
- Emotional resilience: helping children and families (BACP)
- Working at relational depth (Northern Therapeutic Alliance)
- How to help clients with their anger (BACP)
- Adult grief (Just ‘B’ Bereavement Support)
- Domestic abuse in Therapy (Wellspring Therapy)
- Understanding and working with survivors of sexualised trauma (Zoe Lodrick)
- The couple outside the room (NScience)
- The Wisdom of Trauma (Gabor Mate)
- The emotionally neglected client: consequences of a lack of early attunement (Dr Kathrin Stauffer
- Polyvagal theory skills toolkit (Deb Daner)
- New hope for therapy resistant depression (Dr Janina Fisher)
As required by the BACP, I attend monthly supervision and abide by its Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions. I am also DBS checked.
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
Parenting a child with additional needs.
Struggles with being a parent
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
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Please contact me directly to check availability.
