About me
Hello, I am Diana.
Hello, I am Diana. I strongly feel no-one should have to find out everything alone if they don't want to. As a BACP Accredited member and EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner, I offer a dedicated space to help adults and young people safely explore whatever they are carrying. Our nervous systems hold onto a lot, and by learning to listen to our bodies and examining all the different 'pots' of life, we can develop a deeper awareness of what is truly happening. I am here to support you through this process, helping you build the insight to make meaningful choices and changes.
I work face to face from Malvern Worcestershire and welcome online clients from across the UK.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified counsellor and Accredited registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and Pyschotherapists.
I am a fully accredited Europe EMDR practitioner.
I offer a holistic framework combining psychotherapy with pro-active approaches. To deepen this work if you feel like you understand your experiences intellectually but your body is still reacting to it, standard counselling might only take you so far. My practice combines seven years of therapeutic experience with advanced EMDR to help heal the root cause.
Befriending our inner world helps us to meet ourselves where we are at but also facilitates healthy changes to discover and explore fresh solutions. In my work I use concepts from Internal Family Systems and somatics to explore what our bodies are carrying. EMDR can be most effective when it is part of integrated psychotherapy and this can be discussed in asessment sessions to see if it might be helpful to you.
I have a wide range of professional experience, providing mentoring or counselling with people of all ages. Coming from a teaching education background working with children and young people I have also worked within charity settings and therapy agencies offering both individual therapy to clients and supervision to trainee counsellors. My current private practice focuses mainly on individual EMDR and psychotherapy.
Accredited Europe EMDR Practitioner
EMDR Europe Level 3
EMDR Europe Child and Adolescent Level 1 and 2
CPCAB / Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
CPCAB / Level 5 Child and Young People Certificate
Counselling Tutor Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision Including Online and Telephone Working Level 6
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
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Fees
£80.00 per session
Additional information
Assessment sessions £80
Hour session £80
When I work
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Further information
Your first session allows us to see if we are a good fit working together and to hear what you hope to gain from your counselling. Building a sense of trust and ease to speak is my aim when working collaboratively with you. Your confidentiality is explained both in session and in writing and my ways of working openly shared. I welcome any questions you may have when we meet.
For face to face sessions Great Malvern is an ideal location for anyone living in the Gloucester, Hereford or Worcester areas. Nearby towns include Cheltenham, Hereford, Ledbury, Tewkesbury, Upton upon Severn, and Worcester.
