Claire Hershman
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About me
As an experienced psychotherapist, counsellor and supervisor for over 30 years, I offer relationship, family and addictions counselling to individuals, couples, and families who feel held back from leading healthy, fulfilling lives or are unable to enjoy rewarding relationships.
My background is in the NHS and as a private practitioner and I work collaboratively to bring into useful focus the important changes needed to move forward, possibly rebuild, and enhance your life. The work includes reducing toxic shame, developing a connection, healing the inner child and rebuilding attachment wounds.
You may be going through life transitions, such as divorce, bereavement, relocation, the arrival of a new baby, work challenges or bullying, creative blocks, or struggling with the balance of family and demanding and challenging jobs.
You could also be experiencing issues with anxiety, depression, low self esteem, trauma or work related stress. I offer therapy that helps you to uncover and change negative, self-limiting patterns and beliefs that lead you to becoming immobilised by everyday life traps.
I also work with codependency, addiction and blocked creativity. I draw from my years of experience, and training with some of the most innovative and cutting edge approaches to therapy.
Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to book a session. You can call me on 07957 147301 or send an email.
Training, qualifications & experience
Drawing on the many inspiring teachers I have had the good fortune to work with, train under and feel inspired by; most notably the groundbreaking American psychologist John Bradshaw and the pioneering psychiatrist of Dr. Carl Jung. I have developed a unique form of inner child therapy that can help people with deeply wounded and shame based sense of self reconnect with their inner strength and wholeness. The work helps explore options by overcoming blocks that may have been buried under layers of depressive self limiting beliefs and incapacitating anxiety.
My training has been in Jungian psychoanalysis at Birkbeck College London University and Cognitive Analytic Therapy CAT at St Thomas’ Hospital
I am a senior accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP.
I am a regular contributor to PSYART where I write about films from a psychological point of view. Many of my clients work in the creative industries and find this useful.
I am a recognised BUPA insurance provider.
Member organisations
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
From £80.00
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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Further information
Clients include people who work in the creative industries many of whom appreciate flexibility in scheduling and my own experiences in working as a successful freelance photographer and freelance writer on film. I am a regular contributor to the American Journal PSYART and their yearly conferences, which combine my interest in film and psychoanalysis. I have led film and creativity workshops at Birkbeck College and City University.
