Elisabeth Bowen MBACP (Accred)
About me
You might be looking at this website because life feels too difficult to manage at the moment. Something has upset your natural balance. It could be a life-changing event or the demands of everyday life, but somehow they have started a vicious circle of negative thoughts and anxiety that threaten to overwhelm you.
Furthermore we had a long winter and the media is full of anxiety provoking news, like climate change, corona virus, the threat of terrorism etc and right now you may feel like your inner resources are exhausted.
Talking to an experienced practitioner can help and bring relief to your emotional pain. Together we can make sense of what is happening and develop strategies that will help you live a rich and fulfilled life again.
I am an experienced BACP accredited psychodynamic counsellor. I trained at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and at a BACP accredited Training Centre in Kent. Before focusing entirely on my private practice I worked as a senior counsellor at a counselling centre for adults in Tunbridge Wells and as a tutor at a BACP accredited training centre for counsellors. Besides that I was a member of the counselling team at Burrswood Health and Wellbeing.
My practice offers a place where you can talk freely about things that are troubling you. Together we can explore the cause of these. Reflecting on early experiences and significant events in your life helps you understand the root of thinking or behavioural patterns. The exploration and understanding of unhelpful thinking patterns will enable you to gradually make changes and to live a truer and more fulfilled life.
How can you contact me? You can send me an email via the link on this website with your contact details and the best time to call you or call me directly on the above number. It may feel daunting to speak with a counsellor for the first time. Please do not worry. We will have an informal phone call where you can tell me what is troubling you and I can answer any questions you may have about counselling. We can then arrange a date and time for our first meeting.
What happens next? Our first meeting will be an opportunity for us to speak about what is troubling you in more detail and for me to explain to you how I work and how counselling can help you. If we both feel that counselling will benefit you we will agree a day and a time for us to meet on a weekly basis.
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (Accred)
Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy, London Tavistock
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Brief Focussed Counselling
Working with Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Working with Trauma
I have experience in working with
- Anxiety
- Health anxiety
- Depression
- Low self esteem
- Relationship issues
- Loss
- Bereavement
- Divorce
- Anger
- Sexuality
- Childhood Abuse
- Stress
- Trauma
- Critical Illness
Member organisations
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.
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
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
Fees
50 minute session
daytime sessions: £45
evening sessions (after 17:30) : £50
