David Soward
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About me
As with all of us, your life may get difficult as events and emotions come and go: these are often left unprocessed until we give ourselves time to think and talk about them. You may be very unhappy, even despairing, or you may just be feeling some discontent, at a crossroads, lacking motivation or direction. My aim is to help you explore all or any area of your life and work out what the future might hold. I am LGBTQI-affirming.
W H Auden, in his poem in memory of Sigmund Freud, referred to 'a world he changed / simply by looking back with no false regrets'; like him, having explored both the past and the present, I hope you will feel 'able to approach the Future as a friend'.
I will spend time getting to know you and tailor the work we do around what we both feel is needed, with regular reviews to check that we are making progress.
Having previously worked with Cruse Bereavement Care and Clean Slate, I am now a psychotherapist in private practice at the Wellbeing Clinic in Headington, while also working for a low-cost counselling service in East Oxford.
My training has ranged from a person-centred approach, through mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, to psychodynamic practice, and other modalities such as Transactional Analysis, but my fundamental way of working is integrative - which means I draw on a number of approaches to suit my client and changing circumstances.
Training, qualifications & experience
My experience includes working with victims of abuse at Clean Slate and as a bereavement counsellor with Cruse Bereavement Care. Before that I worked for a number of years as project manager in consumer empowerment and financial capability for a national charity. As someone who came to counselling quite late in life after working in a range of organisations and capacities, I can draw on a number of life experiences as well as my professional training.
My training has ranged from a person-centred approach, through mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to psychodynamic practice and other modalities such as Transactional Analysis, but my fundamental way of working is integrative - which means I draw on a number of approaches to suit my client and changing circumstances.
Member organisations
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£46.00 - £64.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Further information
I work as a psychotherapist at the Wellbeing Clinic, 1 Windmill Road, in central Headington, Oxford. I am also a piano teacher. I have also worked with victims of abuse at Clean Slate and as a bereavement counsellor with Cruse Bereavement Care. Before that I worked for a number of years as project manager for a national charity.
My approach as a counsellor is what is called 'integrative' - which means I will draw on a number of ways of working to suit each client. I will spend time getting to know you and tailor the work we do around what we both feel is needed at different points, with regular reviews to check that we feel we are making progress.
