David Cuff
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am a qualified humanistic psychotherapeutic counsellor with a faith in the human potential to develop in a positive direction. Its not easy being a person and I believe we have our own unique path to cut through the woods in the life journey we are in. In counselling with me, I will be a confidential, supportive companion for you in a process that can help make meaning of where you are now and potentially help you navigate some of the tougher life challenges, transitions and painful experiences. As a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), I practice within their ethical framework. I hold the BACP professional qualification at Post-Graduate level in Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counselling from the University of Brighton.
My Approach: I take a non-discriminatory, LGBTQI+ affirmative, experiential Person Centred counselling approach. This is a non-judgemental, relational, holistic approach, which is alive to all aspects of self and factors outside self; supporting a person’s forward momentum in simply being a person. This approach is a gentle process that follows the client’s lead as to what is discussed, that is curious about felt senses and learning from what we are experiencing in the here and now.
We live in the world we believe in. Other people can and do help us feel loved and valued yet also the reverse. My approach recognises feelings of aloneness and how in our interior life we can agonise over our behaviours, choices and the quality of our relationships. Much as I recognise how what has happened to us affects our way of being in the present, I support clients in drawing on their own internal resources to live in the present and find closure to unfinished business.
I am experienced in working with neurodiversity, which I perceive as a difference and not a disorder. In my view, the pathologising of individual difference by the medical sector is not okay.
First Session: I offer a free 30 minute consultation (via Zoom or Telephone) for prospective clients to confidentially discuss the expectations for counselling; and whether we feel it is good to enter the process together. I also offer a £50, 50 minute In Person consultation in central Brighton or Lewes.
Training, qualifications & experience
Post-Graduate Diploma in Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counselling (University of Brighton) Level 2 Person Centred Counselling Skills (Sussex Downs)
Counselling and Bereavement Support CPD (Martlets Hospice)
Menopause and the Mind CPD (New Road Psychotherapy)
Working At Relational Depth CPD (www.caracounsellingtraining.co.uk )
Interpersonal Needs Specialist: FIRO-B practitioner (OPP/Myers Briggs)
Online Counselling CPD - A Corona Virus Primer (Open University/BACP) Moving Your Practice Online CPD (Online Therapy Institute) Child Protection in Education CPD (Educare part of TES) BPD Cert CPD (New Road Psychotherapy)
Dreams - Body Interpretation CPD (New Road Psychotherapy)
Focusing - experiential humanistic interpretation
PGCE Social Science (University of Keele)
BA Hons Economic and Social Studies (University of East Anglia)
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
authenticity; career transition; creative blocks; dreams and nightmares; dysregulation; motivation; procrastination; sadness; uncertainty; aloneness; focusing
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£50 per session (50 mins): concessions available
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Some slots available, please enquire
