Dr Dimitrina Spencer
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About me
I offer warm, respectful and non-judgemental understanding and a wide range of solutions. I will work with you in the way that best suits your needs and goals. For seventeen years, I have worked with clients privately and in counselling agencies in Oxford, London and Swindon. In my private practice, I work with individual clients, couples and families who have wide-ranging goals, including:
- Healing traumas
- Relieving anxiety and fear
- Understanding and healing trauma and PTSD
- Going through a spiritual crisis
- Finding a way out of depression, fear and panic, or re-traumatising experiences
- Working through complex, difficult or painful situations and relationships
- Overcoming the fear of failure as a parent and reconnecting with your child in a loving way
- Living with or caring for loved ones with dyslexia, autism and behavioural challenges
- Homeschooling effectively and with joy
- Supporting and loving a traumatised child
- Resolving the couple’s challenges and conflict
- Understanding and managing anger and rage
- Coming to terms with bereavement and loss
- Managing change and coming to decisions involving stressful events
- Dealing with life-stage transitions and personal identity
- Cultural adaptation
- Understanding and controlling addictive behaviours
- Changing familiar patterns, habits and life-style;
- Enhancing one’s creative potential and learning skills
- Coaching and mentoring in the workplace.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been working with individual therapy clients and groups since October 2006. I have worked privately and for therapy agencies in Oxford, London and Swindon. For three years, I worked for a counselling agency run by the Oxfordshire County Council. Since 2010 I have delivered workshops and training programmes focusing on healing trauma in the UK as well as in Europe.
I specialise in Systemic and Family Constellations Work (SCW), which is an extremely effective, solution-oriented method particularly with regards to trauma. I work with groups and individuals and I run a training course in SCW in the UK and abroad.
In addition, in 2009 I completed four years of training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute, London and obtained a Diploma in Transactional Analysis Studies. I am a registered member (MBACP) of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
I have a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Oxford. I still teach there part-time. My most recent research focused on understanding the emotional experiences of researchers at work and how those enhanced or hindered academic creativity. I am particularly interested in emotions in the work place. I also have an MSc in History and Anthropology and an MA in Race and Ethnic Studies. My publications include the co-edited volumes: Emotions in the Field (Stanford UP) and Anthropological Fieldwork - a Relational Process (Cambridge Scholars Press).
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I am particularly keen to work with relational issues of all kinds, focusing on fear, anxiety or traumatic and post-traumatic experiences affecting individuals or whole families.
Fees
£55.00 - £65.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Between £55-£65 per 50 min session once or twice weekly as requested. Certain concessions available.
The Systemic Constellations Work (SCW) sessions cost £120 for 90 minutes, or £180 for two hours. Please specify when you book if you are interested in weekly counselling or in Systemic Constellations Work.
When I work
Please contact me for available session times.
Further information
Please contact me via email or telephone if you wish to have a trial session or to find out more about counselling, psychotherapy or what the sessions involve. I usually see my clients at the same time and day once a week for 50 min. With Systemic Family Constellations Work, the sessions are longer (usually between 90-120 min) and they may be less frequent depending on the specific situation.
