Claire Meredith
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About me
I offer a safe confidential space for you to feel heard and accepted. If you need support working through current or past issues, or if you are feeling sad, but the reasons are less clear, you are welcome to get in touch.
There are times when we all need some help or support. I can offer you safe and caring support through counselling. Pressures of life, responsibilities, changes, loss, or unresolved past experiences can all have an impact. When our personal resources have been used up, even a small amount of extra stress may feel overwhelming.
Help with issues including:
- anxiety
- depression
- sadness
- stress
- self-esteem
- confidence
- relationships
- change
- grief
- loss
- identity
- trauma
What I offer:
- a confidential space where you can be heard
- a safe place to focus on your concerns and needs
- support and compassion in understanding your own issues and finding a way forward
My approach:
I believe that trust in the counselling relationship lies at the heart of effective therapy. So it is important for you to feel comfortable with your choice of counsellor.
As an Integrative Counsellor, I combine Humanistic and Psychodynamic approaches. In this way I offer a safe and compassionate therapeutic relationship, together with support in understanding and focussing on your individual needs and concerns, so that we can work together to help you move forward.
I offer short term counselling and longer term counselling as needed.
Sessions are 50 minutes long and cost £60.
I am based in Tring and Berkhamsted:
The quiet, comfortable therapy rooms are within easy access from Hemel Hempstead, Bovingdon, Leighton Buzzard, Aylesbury, Aston Clinton, Dunstable, Wendover and surrounding villages.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (CPCAB)
- Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB)
- BA Hons Humanities (including creative writing and art)
- Protective Behaviours Foundation Level
- BACP Certificate of Proficiency
Other Training
- Trauma in Childhood
- Imposter Syndrome/Self Esteem
- Understanding Domestic Abuse
- Working with Suicidal Clients
- Introduction to Mindfulness
- Autism Awareness
- Play Therapy
- Safeguarding
- LGBTQ+ in Therapy
- Working with the Inner Child
- Attachment
- Writing for Wellbeing
Experience
Counselling:
As well as working with adults in my private practice, I have also worked with parents at a family support centre and with young adults and teenagers in a young people’s charity. I am also a school counsellor.
Other Experience:
I have worked in education for many years, both with children in schools and in a professional body working with adults. I have knowledge and experience of the pressures of working in education, professional and self-employed settings.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I have a particular interest in the impact of identity and self worth on mental and emotional health and wellbeing and the need for compassion in all our lives.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60 per 50 minute one to one session.
Trainee counsellors welcome at reduced rate.
When I work
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Daytime and evening appointments available.
Further information
I see adults, older adults and young adults, from 18 plus.
Contact
07716 163073
email - see link above
