Dan Cohen
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Whether you are new to therapy or have experienced it before, finding a new therapist can be a bit daunting. There are lots of different methods and approaches and it might be hard to know what is right for you. With this in mind, perhaps I can share what working with me would be like.
My Approach
I create a safe, warm, non-judgemental space where you can bring your worries, share your thoughts and feelings, and be heard with empathy and compassion. Whatever you are going through, whether it’s anxiety, depression, questions about your relationships or your identity, difficult experiences in your past, or maybe just a general feeling that something isn’t right, you don’t have to deal with it alone.
If you are coming to therapy it is likely you are experiencing something pressing or difficult. My approach aims to support you with whatever you are currently facing, while also making space to explore and understand what’s underlying these experiences. This might include exploring your early life and upbringing, and how early patterns of relating might be subtly repeating with friends and partners. Gaining insight into how you are feeling right now, as well as what has contributed to this from your past experience, can offer you different choices going forward and give you the possibility for genuine and lasting change.
I work in a relational way, meaning I am present as another human being in our sessions, offering warmth and compassion as you navigate whatever waters you currently find yourself in. I won’t prescribe homework, set an agenda, or use worksheets. Instead, I want our work to feel like a collaboration. I’ll invite you to bring whatever feels most present for you and together we will explore how you think and feel about it, and the meaning you make out of it. Working in this way makes space for a deeper kind of work than is possible with more structured approaches.
Training, qualifications & experience
My Experience
I have worked as a therapist for a number of years, both in private practice and for community therapy services. I also worked as part of the clinical safeguarding team for a national counselling service. I have had experience working with a range of concerns listed below.
Training
I trained at The Minster Centre, the UK’s oldest Integrative Psychotherapy training institution, receiving a Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling. I am currently completing advanced clinical training and a Masters degree at the same institute.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP)
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
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Fees
£90.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
I offer a free initial 20-minute phone consultation.
I offer an initial session at the reduced rate of £60.
Following this, my rate is £90 for both in-person and online sessions.
When I work
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Further information
It’s important that you find a therapist that you feel comfortable with. In order to get a sense of how it might be to work together I offer a few options before starting:
A free phone call. This is a chance to share what brings you to therapy, and to ask any questions you might have. The call can be useful but it isn’t essential so if you want to jump straight into a trial session you can.
A trial session. This is close to what a regular session with me would be like. It is 50 minutes long and charged at a reduced rate. In this session, I’ll likely invite you to share in greater depth what has brought you to seek therapy, what your hopes and goals are, and invite you to ask any questions about the process or the way that I work. I might offer questions or prompts if it feels important to explore specific areas. The goal here is not to cover everything but instead to give you a sense of what it would be like to work together and hopefully to provide a useful starting point.
Starting. If at this point you would like to continue into sessions together we would find a regular session time, either in person or online, that would work each week for you, I would reserve that time for you and we would begin working together.
On my website, I have more information about how I work alongside a short guide explaining the type of therapy I practice (integrative), how it differs from other types of therapy, and why I practice in the way that I do. Please head to there if you're interested in any more information or feel free to get in touch directly.
