About me
Hello, I’m Duncan. I’m an integrative therapist and accredited coach. I’m glad you’re here, exploring avenues to support your mental and emotional wellbeing.
I create a non-judgemental space of warmth, empathy and gentle challenge for you to process whatever it is you’re struggling with. It may be something specific, or it could be that something just doesn’t feel quite right.
Our work together can take us back into your past, but it can also support you with the difficult feelings you may be experiencing right now. And if you identify changes you want to make for the future, I can draw on my experience as a coach to help you get there.
What might happen during our sessions together?
Being an integrative therapist means I am able to draw on a wide variety of psychotherapeutic approaches, tailored to you and your evolving needs.
I’m here to listen to your story and to allow whatever needs to be explored to bubble to the surface organically. This experience of feeling truly heard and understood by another can itself be deeply healing.
Depending on your needs, I may also use mindfulness and the breath to help you slow down, ground yourself and regulate your nervous system. Sometimes, I may invite you to bring particular attention to physical sensations in your body; these feelings (like a fluttering in your chest or tension in your jaw) can often offer us a clue as to what may need our therapeutic attention. And, if you’re feeling particularly stuck, I might invite you to experiment with a different way of being in the room: to say something in a way you never have, or exaggerate a gesture you’re already making.
This can be difficult work, but it can also be transformational, liberating and life-enhancing. Often, we’ll identify experiences and practices that build your emotional strength, resilience and wellbeing outside of the room to support you.
Whatever it is that you're facing, I am here to be alongside you for as many sessions as you need as we make sense of your world together. I look forward to going on this journey with you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a Post-Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from Europe’s leading integrative psychotherapy institute – The Minster Centre in London.
Training includes:
- Contemporary Theories of Psychotherapy;
- Humanistic and Existential Models of Psychotherapy;
- Object Relations and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy;
- Somatic and Body Psychotherapy;
- Intersectionality in Psychotherapy;
- Family and Belonging;
- Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity;
- Race and Racism in the Here and Now;
- Childhood Sexual Abuse;
- Time Limited Therapy;
- Skills for Trauma;
- Severe Presentations, Psychiatric Assessment and Use of Medications;
- Death and Bereavement;
- Domestic Abuse;
- Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Trauma.
I also trained at some of the leading coaching schools in the world (the Co-Active Training Institute and International Coach Academy) and am a Certified Professional Coach. I am accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
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.
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Fees
£80.00 per session
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Further information
I meet with people in beautiful therapy rooms in Hove, and also have an online practice. Sometimes, I offer hybrid sessions (online and in-person).
After you get in touch, we’ll set up an initial phone call - this is a zero-obligation opportunity for you to ask any questions, to share what brings you to therapy, and to see if working together feels right for you.
My work is fully insured and professionally supervised in accordance with BACP and UKCP guidelines. I adhere to both BACP and UKCP codes of ethics.
