Elizabeth Barlow
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About me
Hello, I'm Liz, if you are looking for a warm, respectful and compassionate counsellor, I'm pleased you've found me.
I offer help to adult clients of all ages and walks of life. My approach to counselling is to work with clients collaboratively and with a mutual commitment to honest exploration of their difficulty, working toward relief of distress. This can include moving away from patterns of behaving that no longer serve them, exploring how they relate to others and themselves, acceptance of illness or loss and other difficulties of living in our world at this time.
I am an Integrative practitioner which means that using professional skill and judgement I combine psychotherapeutic methods tailored to each client. Methods I use include gestalt, psychodynamic, CBT and person-centered approaches.
Training, qualifications & experience
Having completed certification from level 2 to level 4 over a period of 12 years and using counselling skills whilst working in the education sector as a teacher, lecturer, senior manager and community educator I then completed a three year intensive training at Birmingham Newman University, gaining the MSc Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2023. I now work in private practice and in association with a hospice service.
I undertake ongoing training through CPD which includes special training in working with trauma and sexual abuse, working to achieve acceptance in the context of living with chronic illness and working with those experiencing grief and bereavement.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Further information
I work face to face from a pleasant counselling space in Worcestershire as well as on line via video conferencing
