David Gladwell
About me
After a career in the law I wanted to do something that might help other people more directly, and counselling followed naturally from my role as mentor to members of my team.
My approach is ‘integrative’: I follow no one theoretical model but draw on different approaches as appropriate. Counselling is not an academic or a technical exercise, it is fundamentally an interaction between two individuals working together.
‘I’ve never told anyone this before’ or, ‘I’ve never opened up like this before’. Simply being able to share a worry is a step towards feeling better, towards seeing the situation more clearly. Whatever the challenge, dramatic or seemingly mundane, what is important is the impact it has on you and on your life. Sometimes, apparently small events can knock us off course, make us depressed or anxious. At that point we all need a sounding board.
I practice both general and rehabilitation (disability) counselling.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have an MSc in Therapeutic Counselling. My area of research was the psychosocial impact of sudden disability, and the part which counselling might play in the process of rehabilitation.
Since 2007, I have been an honorary counsellor with Oxleas NHS Trust, helping clients with anxiety, depression, crises in a relationship and other challenges. And from 2010 until 2015 I was an honorary amputee rehabilitation counsellor with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust.
I am a registered and accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Member organisations
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.
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
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
Further information
For further information, please see my website http://www.davidgladwell-counsellor.co.uk
The best way to contact me is by e-mail
Publications
Counselling Clients with an Acquired Disability (2018) Contemporary Psychotherapy Vol 10 no 1 http://www.contemporarypsychotherapy.org/vol-10-no-1-summer-2018/counselling-clients-with-an-acquired-disability/
Ethics and research into vulnerable groups (2015) Contemporary Psychotherapy http://www.contemporarypsychotherapy.org/volume-7-no-2-winter-2015/do-ethics-committess-facilitate-research/
The experience of sudden disability (2015) Academia.edu http://www.academia.edu/15486181/The_experience_of_sudden_disability_and_the_r%C3%B4le_of_counselling
Ethics committees stifling research (2015) Therapy Today Vol 26 No5 p38 http://www.therapytoday.net/article/show/4859/ethics-committees-stifling-research/
School is only one influence on children (2014) Therapy Today Vol 25 No7 p40 http://www.therapytoday.net/article/show/4465/school-is-only-one-influence-on-children/