Elise Horowitz
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About me
Do anxiety and stress get in the way of your being able to participate fully in life? Do you have trouble being yourself in relationships? Do negative thought patterns get in the way of your wellbeing? These are some common problems I help my clients with.
Therapy helps by creating new ways of looking at oneself and one's difficulties through greater self-awareness and understanding, opening new solutions to longstanding problems. Making the first move towards better emotional health can be difficult but it's the first step towards the possibility of real transformational change and living life with greater meaning, purpose and sense of belonging.
Working together, we look at your current problems and how these may be related to your life history, reflecting on your past and how it may influence the present. Exploring and understanding these links together is the first step towards figuring out new and different ways of thinking, feeling and functioning, leading to a richer day-to-day life.
I have extensive clinical experience, offering psychodynamic psychotherapy and counselling to adults in a safe, compassionate and warm environment in person as well as online.
What would you like to change about your life? I invite you to take this step.
Training, qualifications & experience
I completed my training as a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist at WPF, a leading training and clinical organisation for psychotherapy, validated by the University of Roehampton. I am an accredited member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and adhere to their code of ethics and working practice. In addition to my clinical practice I am currently honorary psychotherapist at City Pregnancy Counselling & Psychotherapy, a leading charity providing therapy to individuals needing support around pregnancy related issues including struggles with motherhood.
Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, I had a lengthy career in Financial Services in the City and understand the stresses and demands of working life. Previously I received a Masters in Business Administration from Boston University and a B.A. in Economics from McGill University.
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.
The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Further information
The first step is an initial brief phone call, at no charge. Following that, we can arrange for a time to meet, whether together in the room or online.
