Collette MacCalman

As an Integrative Counsellor, I am trained in the Person Centred Approach, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Transactional Analysis theories.  I believe that each person is a unique individual with their own unique combination of concerns. I will, therefore, explore in partnership with you the best approach to assist you in overcoming your concerns and work with you to find a way forward.

I appreciate that making the decision to telephone or email might be off-putting for you; but please be assured of my genuine interest in helping you. If I'm not available when you telephone, please leave your name and number on the answerphone and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.  Similarly, feel free to email at any time, and I will reply as soon as I can.

I work from a designated, purpose built, comfortable and private wooden garden room where a distance of 2 metres can be maintained and cleaning is carried out prior to and after each session. Working under current Covid-19 guidelines requires us both to wear face masks unless there is a medical exemption.

I offer a safe, friendly, supportive and non-judgmental service usually meeting face to face with clients on a weekly basis on average over 6 sessions (although the frequency and duration of sessions is negotiable and aimed at meeting your individual needs). We can identify days and times that fit around your family, work and other commitments. Refer to my availability table to see when I work.

I can assure you that your privacy will be guarded and that whatever is discussed in sessions will remain confidential (apart from those issues which I am legally bound to disclose to the appropriate authorities and which I will inform you of before we start the first session).

When you look at the  list of areas of counselling I deal with, you will see that I regularly work with a wide variety of issues In private practice. I am also constantly updating my Continuing Professional Development knowledge in order to offer my clients the most up to date and comprehensive service that I can.

I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP Registered Member no: 376958). BACP membership requires that I receive monthly supervision with a qualified, experienced counsellor to ensure that my practice is safe, ethical and to the appropriate standard.

Before qualifying as a counsellor I worked in a variety of non-counselling roles that have given me experience of working with people of different ages from a wide variety of settings. As a trainee Counsellor I worked in a busy GP surgery in Hyde, Greater Manchester with patients and staff who were receiving medical treatment but who the GPs felt would also benefit from counselling (e.g. carer stress, anxiety, bereavement, depression, self harm, eating disorders, substance misuse, relationship breakdowns, low self esteem and lack of confidence).

Over the past 30 years I have also successfully used "counselling skills" with clients in a full time paid role as a Project Worker with the Single Homeless in Coventry; as a full time Course co-ordinator/Lecturer/personal tutor at High Peak College (University of Derby College,) Buxton; as a Foster Carer of sibling groups (0-10 years) for Derbyshire County Council; and as a full time Nursing Assistant on an Acute Adult mental health and a Dementia Assessment ward for Pennine Care Foundation Trust whilst studying part time to become a professional Counsellor.

If you think that I may be able to offer you the kind of counselling you are looking for, then please book in for an Introductory Session.

My very best regards, Collette