About me
A warm welcome to you. I'm Liz, an integrative counsellor based in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Sometimes life can throw challenges our way that feel too overwhelming to manage alone. In counselling, you can begin to understand yourself better, connect to parts of you that may feel lost or out of reach, learn how to express yourself and in turn improve the most important relationship you have: the one with yourself. Investing time to work on yourself is the kindest thing you can do and the effects will ripple out to those around you.
Some examples of topics that I often work with:
- Relationship difficulties/breakdowns
- Life transitions and identity
- Parental wounds such as abandonment or absence
- Low self-esteem, anxiety, depression
- Military and front line service trauma
- Loss and bereavement
- Pregnancy and birth trauma, parenthood
- Neurodivergence - Post diagnosis support and exploration
- Supporting parents of children with additional needs
- Spirituality, mortality, support with life limiting conditions
Sometimes words can feel out of reach or the depth of the work requires something beyond articulation. In those times, I offer my clients creative support. This could be using image cards, a sand tray, pens and paper, clay, miniatures and symbolic representations to help you access the parts of you that may be waiting to be discovered. If this sounds like it might be what you are looking for, get in touch. My therapy rooms provides a calm and comforting space where you can look inwardly, offering yourself the opportunity for growth and change. If you are not a local person, I also offer online sessions to anyone in the UK.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a background working in charity settings supporting adults with a variety of mental and emotional difficulties as well as vulnerable women who have a history of trauma and abuse.
I now run my own practice where I support adults on a one to one basis to navigate life's challenges. I am an Accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and am committed to ongoing professional development.
Prior to my counselling career, I was a social worker and worked across community and hospital settings supporting adults with physical and mental difficulties.
Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Counselling
Level 4 Advanced Certificate in Counselling Skills
BA (Hons) Social Work
Some examples of post qualifications:
Diploma in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
Trauma, the Brain and Recovery
Integrative Sandplay Therapy
Rebellious acts of art
Working with social anxiety disorder
Acceptance and commitment therapy
The meaning of shame in the treatment of trauma and many more.
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
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£65 per session
£360 for a block of 6 (giving you a £30 discount)
£40 concession rate for Counselling students and those on low income
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Further information
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