Deborah Morley
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hi, I’m Debbie. I can help you if you’re looking for counselling. I provide a confidential space, full of warmth, kindness, empathy and non-judgement for you to talk about your challenges and explore your feelings.
It can be daunting to reach out for support, especially if you are used to doing things on your own most of the time. You may feel nervous about what the sessions will be like and how it will feel to prioritise yourself, for the focus to be on you. This is normal and perfectly reasonable and I will help you with this too. I believe counselling to be very supportive and useful. It helps to talk, to hear your thoughts and to have someone to share with, who can gently help you to explore things in a new way.
My counselling sessions are at your pace, bringing what you want to the sessions, in a way that keeps you feeling safe. The weekly sessions can either be in-person in Wimbledon or remotely on Zoom. If you come for in-person sessions, the rooms are on Broadway, near the carparks, trains and buses. You will be welcomed into a place full of counsellors and therapists working with their clients, with a comfortable waiting room for you to use before we go for the session in the private and confidential therapy rooms.
I can support you in a wide range of emotional difficulties such as depression, bereavement, anxiety, stress, relationship problems, mental health challenges and any other area where you are experiencing challenges or are unsure of how to proceed. Or maybe you don’t have a specific challenge but would like to explore your thoughts and feelings to uncover a niggle or release a blockage and be able to live more freely.
Counselling can bring you back to you, all the versions of you over the years and the physical you right now that can help the emotional you. Looking back into childhood can bring a new perspective on adult challenges. Equally, working in the here and now, with my support and observations, can bring clarity. Counselling can reconnect your mind and body which can often seem to be running separate departments as we go through adulthood! Any approach is good; once the sessions get started, you will find out what's best for you.
Counselling is time in the week for you to rediscover and champion the person who you really are.
If my words resonate with you and you feel I could help you, please contact me to organise next steps. I’ll phone you so we can arrange our first meeting and get started on your journey.
Training, qualifications & experience
- CPCAB Level 2 Counselling Skills
- CPCAB Level 3 Counselling Studies
- CPCAB Level 4 Diploma Therapeutic Counselling (Person-centred, Existentialist)
- Member of BACP
- Continuing Professional Development including:
- Internal Family Systems
- Suicide Awareness Training - prevention and postvention
- Bereavement Training
- Working Remotely as a Counsellor
- BSc (Hons)(1) Biological Sciences
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
I am a befriender and counsellor to bereaved people who live in southwest London, working with a local charity. I previously worked for a national mental health charity as a counsellor, risk assessor and team member.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Fees
£65.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£65 per session (50 minutes)
When I work
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I work weekdays and early evenings too.
Further information
My counselling approach is exploratory, at your pace, so that you feel safe. The work is confidential, it’s your choice what you bring to the sessions. I will listen without judgement, providing you with a warm, empathic space that is just for you. I will share with you what I see and hear and that may be revelatory for you and open up new avenues for self-exploration. Your relationship with me will develop and your relationship with yourself may begin to change, changes which you can then take into your life as time goes on.
How do we develop as we journey through life, how do our relationships with others affect what we become, how much do we take from our culture and society? What happened to the person we were when we were little, and how much of that person is allowed to be in the person we are as an adult? As we grow up and older, how connected do we stay to our physical body, what is our body saying to us, if we can turn towards it and listen?
Counselling can bring you back to you, all of the versions of you over the years and the physical you right now that can help the emotional you. Counselling is time in the week for you to rediscover and champion the person who you really are.
