Dempsey Lengden
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About me
Hi, I’m Dempsey!
I work with Adults and Young People 11+ offering face to face or online sessions.
My clients would describe me as a friendly, down to earth and relatable therapist. I specialise in anxiety, stress & burnout, low self esteem and confidence helping my clients to explore how they’re feeling, and offering CBT techniques to work on overcoming the challenges they’re facing and work towards feeling better and coping better with life’s struggles.
I also work with a variety of clients with a wider range of reasons including Depression, Grief, Bereavement & Loss, Bullying, Relationships, Career changes, Trauma and Neurodivergence.
I will help you to feel seen and heard, and help you to see that your feelings are valid. I will empower you to make realistic changes in your life that are important to you.
I understand that sometimes there are things that you can’t say to friends or family and you just need a safe space to share what is going on for you.
Counselling can feel challenging at times, looking at ourselves with honesty, thinking and talking about our past and some of the parts of it that we may feel we want to lock away and “forget” – but in order to move past the difficult things we have experienced, we must first do the important work which is different for everyone who seeks therapy.
Starting therapy is often quite a daunting prospect. Maybe you already feel overwhelmed by the amount of different therapies and therapists so, Working with me would be right for you if;
- You are struggling with feelings of anxiety, low self esteem & confidence, stress, burnout, depression or trauma which is having an impact on your day to day life.
- You feel anxious and it’s stopping you from doing things that you want to do, stopping you from being yourself or forming/ maintaining relationships or friendships.
- You feel like you’re at a crossroads, trying your best but still feel stuck and you don’t know how to move forward, or even where forward is.
- You’re struggling with low self esteem and confidence which is impacting all areas of your life and feel like you have lost a sense of who you are.
- You know the problems that you have been facing, very well, but can’t seem to resolve them and as a result you’re finding it difficult to imagine your future.
- You get easily overwhelmed and can’t seem to control your feelings, often reacting to things and feeling embarrassment, shame or guilt afterwards.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training and Qualifications
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- Level 3 Certificate in Counselling
- Level 2 Certificate in Counselling
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children
- Equality and Diversity
- Domestic Abuse Training
- Bereavement and Loss Training
- Suicide Awareness and Prevention
- Understanding Autism
- Understanding PTSD
- Coaching and Goal based outcomes
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
My Experience
- Working creatively with young people aged 11+ in local schools in Stockport and Manchester
- 3 years experience working with a local charity Talk Listen Change, supporting young people and parents with understanding childrens mental health.
- Experience working with Anxiety, low Self Esteem & confidence, Stress & burnout, all of which can feel debilitating and I know how each of these can affect your daily life.
Further Information
- Registered member of the BACP.
- Enhanced DBS to work with Adults, Children and Young People.
- Professional Liability Insurance
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Free telephone consultation to discuss your needs and reasons for therapy.
Discount on block bookings available.
When I work
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Further information
After receiving Therapy myself, I gained insight into the true value of being supported by a Counsellor through difficult times, and actually feeling heard while I explored things that I felt incapable of saying out loud, and the best part, in a confidential, judgement free zone! I felt able to open up and gain confidence in being my authentic self, and that's exactly what therapy is for!
Covering; Stockport, Heaton Moor, Edgeley, Poynton, Heaton Chapel, Stockport centre, Woodley, Offerton, Bramhall, Cale Green, Shaw Heath, Hazel Grove, Heavily, Cheadle, Cheadle Heath, Cheadle Hulme, Handforth, Wilmslow, Hale, Altrincham, Bollington, Macclesfield, Alderley Edge, Knutsford, Romiley, Manchester, Didsbury.