About me
Anxiety Counsellor Redland, Bishopston and Online.
I help anxious adults and young people feel more at ease in their mind and body, so they can move through life with more clarity, confidence, and choice.
Anxiety can show up anywhere anytime, at school, at work, in relationships, during pregnancy, or alongside ill health. It can show up after a loss or bereavement, or following a traumatic event. Sometimes it appears for no clear reason at all. Anxiety can range from mildly unsettling to completely overwhelming, and it can take the joy out of everyday life.
You might recognise yourself in terms like general anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety, imposter syndrome, people pleasing, procrastination, low self‑esteem, avoidance, self‑doubt, overthinking, rumination, or burnout.
With the support of counselling. It is possible to find freedom from the way anxiety has been holding you back.
The approach used to help you move through anxiety will depend on you and your situation. I have lots of experience and lots of expertise and so we can find a way of working together that works.
We could a use Person Centred, Compassion Focused, Body Focus or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach. We can talk and we can be creative.
Email me today to book a consultation and find out if we can work together. See my website for more details.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications and trainings include but are not limited to:
- I have a Degree in Integrative Counselling and I have studied for a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People (CYP).
- I have a qualification enabling me to provide ethical online and telephone counselling.
- I am DBS checked.
- I am a parent
- I have been a foster parent
- I am trauma informed
- I am dyslexic and neurodiverse affirming.
Experience:
- 1000’s of therapeutic hours worked, gained during 24 years as a shiatsu practitioner and 12 years as a counsellor.
- Counsellor in Private Practice - 12 years.
- Employed, subcontracted and Funding Led Posts:
- Bristol After Stroke - counsellor, course facilitator and mindfulness facilitator –supporting stroke affect people, their families and loved ones. (This employed post is ongoing).
- NAOS - Counsellor and Shiatsu Practitioner for a Trauma informed, Intersectional Therapy Service.
- NAOS - Counsellor providing reflective supervision for teachers working in alternative school provisions.
- Noah’s Star- counsellor supporting parents of premature and sick babies and NHS staff involved in their care. Bereavement counselling include.
- West of England works – counsellor supporting economically inactive people.
- Off the Record – voluntary counsellor, school counsellor and employed workshop facilitator for young people aged 11-25.
- Bristol School of Shiatsu – Assistant teacher.
- Self Employed - Delivering Introductory Shiatsu Workshops.
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
Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
Online, telephone and in the room counselling is charged at £65.00 for 50 minutes.
When I work
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Please contact me to find out about my latest availability.
Further information
I offer a 15/20 minute video call consultation at no charge. The consultation is so we can meet, ask a few questions and find out if we want to work together.
If you are a parent or caregiver looking for counselling for your young person, email me for more details about the consultation process.
Reach out and contact me today, I will always reply.
Best wishes, Dawn
