About me
Hi; My name is Dawn, and my aim is to provide a warm, empathic, confidential and safe environment for you to talk. Working through and exploring your difficulties, and supporting you to find a way forward.
How counselling can help
We all have times in our lives when difficulties and emotions overwhelm us. Talking and working with a counsellor can lead you to make positive and sustainable improvements in your life and relationships, and I am passionate about offering you a totally non-judgmental supportive relationship in which you will feel safe and respected. I am totally committed to each and every single client I see, ensuring that they are listened to, and feel heard.
Flexible Appointments
If necessary, I provide sessions out of normal working hours,
Home visits
For those clients unable to travel, I do offer home visits within a 20-mile radius;
Extra fees would be applicable in these cases; Please ask for details- email
Training, qualifications & experience
I describe myself as an Integrative counsellor, drawing on a range of therapies, person-centred, gestalt and transactional analysis. Having had a wealth of experience in mental health.
I work with self-harm, sexual abuse, stress, anxiety and anxiety-related conditions, including loneliness and isolation, also with pain relief from fibromyalgia and m.e., anger, guilt, shame and substance misuse. I work with bereavement and unresolved childhood issues.
In addition, I feel privileged to work with a registered charity.
I feel very strongly about the work that I do, and, therefore, continual professional development is an extremely important tool. At present, I am training around what is still a very sensitive issue, which is pre-birth bereavement.
I work under the guidelines of the BACP's Ethical Framework, with regular supervision. I not only find supervision valuable but find my own personal counselling an asset too.
Member organisations
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
Fees
Additional information
I can offer you a free 30 minute initial consultation.
£35 per 50-minute session.
I can offer both face to face and telephone support counselling, and I hope you will find that I am most flexible with appointment times.
Just ring 01597 850284, 07890 739920 or email
Home visits
For those clients unable to travel, I do offer home visits within a 20-mile radius;
Extra fees would be applicable in these cases; Please ask for details.