Dorothy Frear
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About me
I offer counselling sessions on Zoom and in-person. My aim is to create a safe, secure and compassionate environment to work through whatever has brought you to seek help and enable you move forward in a positive way.
Our work together will be centered around developing a supportive relationship which will enable you to explore your thoughts, feelings and emotions in a confidential, non-judgmental atmosphere. You may be experiencing anxiety, panic attacks, depression, trauma, low self-esteem, bereavement, relationship/family problems, or a more general feeling of sadness or confusion, struggling with things not going to plan. I can work with you to address these feelings, look at underlying issues and finding solutions to the problems you face. You may be experiencing more specific problems directly related to relationships, work, education or family issues, for example.
Alternatively, our work together may be in accepting, understanding or coming to terms with past experiences that have a direct effect on your life in the present. Resolving such issues can be transformative in helping you to move forward in a different way finding renewed energy and enthusiasm for the future.
As your therapist, I will work alongside you enabling you to better understand yourself and become more aware of your deeper thoughts, feelings and emotions. I will help you focus on what is important to you and identify what you want to explore in the sessions. In short-term therapy we will regularly review our work to help you stay with more immediate problems. In longer term therapy there will be more opportunity to explore and become aware of experiences and challenges that have shaped your personality. As our relationship evolves, I will help you develop self-awareness, in order to make the changes, empowering you to move forward in a new and different way that can impact not only your present, but your future life and relationships.
What I can offer
I offer short-term and long-term counselling.
Short-term counselling can be effectively used to help to deal with present and ongoing problems and to develop self-understanding and insight into patterns of behaviour and ways of being. In longer term counselling and psychotherapy, problems can be explored in greater depth with a view to changing patterns of behaviour.
Whatever problems you are facing, I am here to help, so please feel free to contact me for a first assessment appointment.
Or give me a call/email to request a call back.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an accredited and registered member of the BACP and work according to their ethical framework. I receive regular clinical supervision and take part in continued professional development. I also have an advanced CRB certificate and professional indemnity insurance.
I can offer Academic coaching either separately or integrated with counselling and psychotherapy.
Qualifications:
- BACP Accreditation
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (York St John University) (PG Dip)
- Certificate in Counselling Skills (York St John University)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education (University of Huddersfield) (PGCE)
- Graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry (GRSC)
Training:
- Certificate in Transactional Analysis
- Gestalt Self-development Group
- Integrative Coach Therapy CPD Group
- Trauma, Dissociation and Recovery
- Working with Relational Trauma
- Sex and Porn Addiction
- Mindfulness for Counselling Practitioners
- Working with attachment issues
Recent CPD
- Using Compassion Focused Therapy For Trauma
- Anxiety Certification Course
- Early Emotional Neglect and the Adult Client in Therapy
- Understanding and Supporting ADHD
- Calming The Inner Critic
- LGBTQ+ Building a Gender Affirming Practice
- Working with Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Questioning Clients
- Working with Anxiety
- Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and Dissociating
- Working with Shame
- Working with Relational Trauma: Dealing with Disorganised Attachment
I have been in private practice since 2015 offering counselling and psychotherapy to a range of clients and have extensive experience in working with university students, young people and adults. I have also worked with adults and NHS referrals at a counselling agency in York (1-2-1 Counselling) and young people age 16 to 25 at a Young Persons' Counselling Service provided by the City of York Council ( Castlegate and Clarence Street)
Experience:
- 1-2-1 Counselling Service for Adults (2011-14)
- 29 Castlegate Counselling Service for Young People aged 16 to 25 years (2014-17)
- 30 Clarence Street Counselling Service for Young People (2017-18)
- Private Practice (Established 2015)
Other experience
I have previously worked in the teaching profession for 30 year as a Tutor of Chemistry and Progress Tutor offering pastoral care to students and their families in the FE/sixth form sector.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Transitions
- Stress relating to work and education
- Coping with university life
- Parenting older children/teenagers
- Family problems, past and present
- Anxiety and depression
- Academic challenges and progression
Therapies offered
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Fees
£40.00 - £50.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
An initial appointment/assessment is £30.
Individual therapy sessions thereafter costs £50. The rate per session for young people aged 17 to 21 and students is £40. Other concessions may be available on request.
Fees are payable in cash or by Bank transfer on the day of the session.
A free shorter session of 20 minutes can be arranged to discuss how counselling might be of help to you and to establish if we will be able to work together. This can be conducted by telephone, if that would be helpful.
Appointments:
Therapy sessions are one hour in duration and booked in advance.
Sessions are usually weekly.
Fees are payable on the day of each session.
When I work
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- Appointments are available Monday to Thursday with early evening appointments throughout the week.
- Please email or phone for current availability.
Further information
I am situated close to the University of York campus and student accommodation, along the number 66 bus route.
I work from a dedicated ground floor counselling room which is 10 minutes walk from the city walls and Walmgate Bar, along Lawrence Street.
