This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Are you struggling with anxiety or feeling sad all the time?
Maybe you're worried about how this is affecting your relationships causing you more anxiety. Perhaps you're finding it difficult to communicate your feelings to loved ones.
Are you grieving for the loss of a loved one? Perhaps you are feeling depressed and overwhelmed like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Are you carrying this huge feeling of grief and depression around with you every day and it's dragging you down?
Who am I and how do I work
I'm Claire, a person-centred counsellor, offering face-to-face counselling at the lovely Wellness rooms in Tur Langton Village Leicestershire, and also online from my home in Rutland. I support adults, addressing a range of issues such as grief, relationship challenges, anxiety, and depression.
How Counselling can help you
Counselling can help you explore your feelings of anxiety or depression, helping you to become stronger and calmer. It will help you to become more positive about yourself so that you can build healthy boundaries in your relationships. Counselling can help you learn how to communicate your needs so that you feel heard and valued for who you are.
Bereavement Counselling
I understand how hard it can be to openly share your feelings of anxiety, or talk about a bereavement with family or friends. My personal experience of loss has helped me enormously when working with the bereavement charity Cruse. Being able to share with someone who is outside of your family or group of friends can bring huge relief, knowing that you can talk freely and are not a burden.
Benefits of Counselling
Counselling can help you understand your relationship patterns and learn new ways to communicate your needs so that you can build stronger relationships. It can help you feel more in control of your anxiety so that you feel lighter and can cope better with life. Talking to a counsellor can help you explore your feelings more deeply without the fear of upsetting others.
If you prefer to have online sessions I offer daytime or evening appointments where you can have a session without leaving the comfort of your own home. Through our relationship, you will have the opportunity to talk openly and I will listen with empathy, helping you to make more sense of your loss, depression and anxiety.
What is Person-centred Therapy?
I listen with warmth and compassion offering you a space to begin exploring your feelings without judgment. When emotions are not fully processed or understood, they can remain in the body; causing stress and tension. This can impact your mental health and well-being.
I will gently encourage you to explore your deeper feelings at your own pace with a focus on the connection between the mind and the body. Bringing more awareness to the feelings and sensations within the body can help you gain more understanding about the root of anxiety or depression.
What I offer
Counselling is a collaborative process so we will work together, to help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself. This will help you make sense of difficult emotions, and learn to trust yourself again.
I offer a space either face-to-face or online where you will feel seen and heard. Through our connection, you will learn how you relate to others now and in the past. This awareness can help you make sense of what is happening within your relationships and your attachments.
I believe you are the expert on your own life and have the strength and resilience to overcome challenges, and I will walk alongside you, supporting you on that journey.
As a Reiki Practitioner also, I can support you with learning about your own energy, so that you can become a stronger, calmer and happier you.
I understand that counselling can feel daunting so I am here to support you with the process by offering a free 20-minute video or telephone call.
Please feel free to contact me to ask questions to help you determine if I am the right counsellor for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
- CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- Certificate of Proficiency (BACP)
- CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies.
- ASCENTI Level 2 Foundation course in Awareness in Bereavement Care
- Level 3 Diploma Reflexologist/Aromatherapist
- Level 3 Diploma in Anatomy and Physiology
- Level 2 Reiki Practitioner
CPD
- Working with Complex Grief -Cruse
- Supporting Bereaved children
- Grief in Focus: Sibling loss
- Cruse Telephone and Helpline training
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children & young People
- Prevent training
Other Qualifications
1996 PGCE Primary, specialising in Music at St. Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill
1992 BA Hons Music/Drama - 2.1 (Instrument – Voice Soprano)
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 - £55.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Fees for Face-to-Face / Online Counselling Sessions
Face to Face Daytime Appointments 10- 5 pm £50
Face to Face Evening Appointments 5- 8 pm £55
Daytime online appointments 10-5 pm £45
Evening Online sessions 5-8 pm £50
- I offer daytime and some evening appointments.
- I offer weekly and fortnightly sessions.
- Each session will be 50 minutes
- I offer long and short-term and long-term counselling.
- I offer concessions for Students and Trainee counsellors
- Please contact me to check my current availability.
When I work
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Working hours :
Tuesday 10 am - 1pm
2pm-6pm
7.15-9pm
Wednesday 1pm -6.30pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10 am - 1 pm
Further information
My experience includes working at working for up to 2 years with a wide range of long-term clients face-to-face at Leicestershire Counselling Charity, Cruse Bereavement Care and Diane Stevens Counselling.
I trained and worked with Cruse as a Bereavement Volunteer for 5 years, supporting clients with complex grief and loss. I have explored and used the various models of grief when working with clients coping with different types of loss. I have experience working with many clients on long and short-term work supporting clients face to face, via Zoom and on the telephone.
I have training in safeguarding adults and children and have experience working with suicide and trauma. Working closely with people struggling with grief, I feel a natural empathy and a strong desire to help clients navigate this difficult transition.
I am also a Primary/ Music Teacher and many years of experience working with children aged 5-18.
I am a fully insured member of the BACP and am committed to continuing my studies to enhance my professional development. I am currently working on short-term CPD: Online training with Caroline Springs- Mental Health and the Body: Treating Trauma.
I am aware of data protection legislation and am independently registered with the ICO. I have indemnity insurance and an enhanced DBS.
I'm also a Reiki Practitioner, offering Reiki and Angel card readings online /by telephone.