Clare Walter
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About me
Welcome. I am a warm, empathetic counsellor with a very broad range of life and professional experience. I offer therapy sessions, in person, in Finchley N3, Archway N19 and Bloomsbury WC1B. I am trauma-aware, and work with adults from different cultural, religious and migrant including refugee backgrounds, across LGBT+ communities, and with people engaged in creative practice.
Counselling is a special kind of relationship, focussed on your emotional wellbeing. In sessions with me, you will have time and space where you can feel safe and supported to talk about whatever may be troubling you. If you're feeling low, anxious or stuck, if life sometimes feels a struggle, or you have had or are still going through distressing, challenging or confusing experiences, counselling may help to improve your mental well-being. It can also be a way simply to explore and understand better who you are in the world, why your relationships are the way they are, and to get to know yourself better, with the possibility of being able to arrive at new or different ways of being that feel a better fit for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Humanistic Counselling and am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). I adhere to the BACP's ethical guidelines. My Enhanced Certificate from the DBS gives me the highest level of clearance for work with vulnerable people.
Working as an integrative counsellor means that my training is very broad and I am able to tailor the way I work to your needs.
Alongside my private practice, I provide counselling to adults dealing with bereavement and loss in a specialist service.
Away from counselling, I have worked with refugees and asylum seekers, and am qualified in this area. I have a particular interest in trans-generational trauma. I also have experience supporting people dealing with chronic health diagnoses, especially immune related disorders including MS, HIV/AIDs and cancer. I have my own experience of creative practice.
I feel it is important to continue my own personal and professional development and I am in regular therapy, as well as professional supervision, essential for practising therapists.
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
£70.00 - £85.00
Additional information
I see most of my clients in person, in dedicated therapy rooms located in Archway, Bloomsbury and Finchley. In general therapy works best with regular weekly sessions. So, we will see each other for 50-minute therapy sessions at the same time, on the same day each week, in order to best support the process. A specific time is set aside for you for the duration of your therapy.
The initial consultation will take place online in a video call. From my side, the purpose of this appointment is to allow me to start to build a picture of you and your reasons for wanting counselling. You will have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have. The session will allow us both to see if we feel a good fit for your counselling. The fee for this session is £60. After the appointment there will be time to reflect. If you decide that I am the right therapist for you, then subsequent sessions can be booked.
I've organised my private practice fees to offer the widest access to my services. Those with broader shoulders support the free or low-cost counselling I provide elsewhere. Sessions are payable in cash at the end of the session or by bank transfer on the day. The online initial consultation is payable in advance. Invoices can be provided on request.
When I work
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Further information
We start with an initial video call that takes place online. This initial consultation lasts up to an hour and costs £60. Please note that fees for your therapy sessions may be different to this. I'll ask you some questions about what brings you to look for counselling and about you, more broadly. You'll be able to tell me what you hope to achieve from counselling, as well as ask me any questions you may have about the process. We'll be able to think about whether we would be a good fit to work together therapeutically. After the appointment, you'll have time to reflect, especially on whether you think you would feel comfortable talking to me as your counsellor.
In general counselling works best with weekly sessions. If you decide to go ahead, we will arrange regular sessions, at the same time and in the same place each week, in order to best support the process. A specific time is set aside for you for the duration of the therapy.
