Diane Paterson
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About me
At times our lives become stuck. I am passionate about offering people the chance to move on with their emotional needs. As your therapist, I offer you support through a caring therapeutic relationship where you can explore your problems. The therapy may lead you on a journey to help give you insight into your life as it is now and how you can bring change to your life in a positive way.
Training, qualifications & experience
I abide by the BACP Code of Ethics ensuring confidentiality, best standards of practice by maintaining monthly clinical supervision and continued professional development. I work in a humanistic, integrative, person centred way. Including CBT, Solution Focused, Creative Therapy.
- Cert Ed Polytechnic South West/Plymouth University
- Advance Diploma In Therapeutic Counselling - CPCAB
- Counselling for Children, Young People and Young Adults - Counselling Mind Ed
- BACP Certificate of Accreditation Counsellors/Psychotherapist - BACP
- Diploma in Supervision - Iron Mill College Exeter
- Child Protection Training - Bridgewater College
- Keeping Children Safe in Education, Preventing Radicalisation, Online Safety, Safeguarding Essentials, Data Protection Briefing, Equality & Diversity Briefing
- Sexual Abuse Training Part 1/2 - with Barnardo's
- Young People who Self-Harm - Charlie Waller Trust
- Trauma and the Body - Norma Howes
- Bereavement & Loss - Charlie Waller Trust
- Supporting LGBT Young People - Somerset Sexual Health Training Programme
- Private Health Care Registered - BUPA, AXA, AVIVA
- DBS Clearance - 2019
I am a very experienced professional Counsellor/Psychotherapist who has been practising since 2003. I have worked in education for over thirty years. I work in schools, with employers and in private practise in Sherborne. I also work as a Restorative Justice Practitioner for Young Offenders in Somerset.
Member organisations
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
Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Counselling/Psychotherapy
Supervision
Please contact me for supervision fees.
When I work
My availability - Monday to Friday during the day and evenings. I am also available for home visits.
Further information
I can also offer workshops in:
Bereavement, Anger Management, Building Self - Esteem, Mindfulness, Stress and Anxiety, Work Place Bullying, Clinical Supervision, Learning to live with Covid
