This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I'm a psychotherapist (UKCP and MBACP), researcher and wellbeing coach with over 15 years of experience dedicated to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities.
https://www.claudiacoussinstherapy.com/
Life can sometimes feel heavy, confusing and lonely. But therapy and coaching can offer a supportive space to explore, heal, and cultivate joy. While I don’t believe it’s possible to fully understand another’s experience, together, we’ll work to uncover the habits holding you back, make courageous changes, process trauma & oppression, and embrace a more peaceful, fulfilling life.
I welcome clients from all backgrounds and my approach is:
- attachment-informed
- embodied
- relational
This means I believe we can gain as much insight from how we interact, as from the content of what we say. My practice draws on childhood, inter-generational and wider cultural experiences to make sense of thoughts, feelings and sensations in the present. I believe that working with our physicality and paying attention to our bodily sensations can enhance our understanding of ourselves.
I also have specific expertise working with practitioners in the health, mental health, social care and other caring and wellness professions, where there can be particular themes of stress, burnout and vicarious trauma which can be challenging to manage.
If now isn't the right time for ongoing therapy, you might be interested in the Wellbeing Reset package: a transformative and structured 1:1 coaching package, designed to bring balance and joy into different aspects of your life. After our time together, you will leave with a fresh perspective, a personalised resource pack, and some tangible next steps!
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an integrative psychotherapist (UKCP and MBACP) and completed my MA in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Minster Centre. I am a practitioner member of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network, whose goal is to address the inequality of access to appropriate psychological services for Black, African, South Asian and Caribbean people.
As well as my private practice, I am a psychotherapist at Spiral Holistic Therapy Centre, a low-cost and long-term therapy service.
I have spent 15 years working with children and families experiencing socio-emotional challenges as well as with the practitioners who support them (including brief, solution-focused work).
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Fees
£80.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Additional information
Prices are £80 per 50 minute sessions (please ask about concessions if money is a barrier). You can also request a free 20 minute introductory call.
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If you would like to have a session on days that are not Monday, Thursday or Friday, please do get in contact as I may have some flexibility.
Further information
I am committed to incorporating anti-oppressive practice into my therapy. My professional background - as well as exploring my own history of difference, marginalisation and privilege - has enhanced my compassion and understanding of how societal structures can impact a person's mental health.
