Emma Seymour
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This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hello, and welcome. I am an integrative psychotherapist and counsellor offering in-person weekly sessions to individual adults (over the age of 18). My consulting room is a few minutes' walk from Pimlico Underground Station and easily reached from Victoria, Westminster, Vauxhall, and many other locations.
Seeking therapy for the first time can feel daunting. At its most simple, psychotherapy and counselling involve talking about yourself to someone who will not judge you, and who may offer different perspectives on whatever has brought you to therapy.
I have experience in helping people with a wide range of issues, including:
- anxiety and stress;
- depression and loss;
- low self-esteem;
- parenting worries;
- family and relationship problems;
- pregnancy and fertility;
- being a carer;
- identity issues;
- and life transitions.
My therapeutic approach is integrative. This means that I draw on a range of therapeutic ideas in tailoring my approach to your unique needs. Whatever is troubling you now may have roots in your past relationships and we might explore the ways in which your past continues to colour your present life. It can also be helpful to identify your characteristic thinking patterns about yourself and other people.
Beginning therapy
If you would like to explore beginning therapy with me, please do get in touch. We can then schedule a short initial phone call, for which there is no charge. We might then arrange an initial session, which gives us a chance to think together about what you would like to gain from therapy, and whether this feels like the best option for you. If we agree to work together, we will arrange to meet each week at the same time.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have an MSc in Therapeutic Counselling from the University of Greenwich and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy and Counselling from the Minster Centre. I am registered as an integrative psychotherapist with the UK Council for Psychotherapy and I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
In addition to my private practice, I see clients in a community-based organisation. Prior to this, I worked with clients in primary care within the NHS and in a range of community counselling settings. I previously volunteered for SANE, Cruse, and MIND.
Member organisations
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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.
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
£70.00 per session
Additional information
My fees are currently £70 per weekly 50-minute session.
When I work
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Please contact me to enquire about daytime and early evening sessions on Thursdays in Pimlico.
Further information
How I work
Each therapeutic encounter is unique. My approach is grounded in careful attention to whatever is on your mind and reflections on the relationship which evolves between us. I hope to offer a thinking space in which we explore links between different areas of your experience and begin to identify patterns and repetitions in your life.
Longer term and shorter term work
I tend to work with deep-rooted issues which have evolved over many years. Longer term therapy (which may be open-ended) allows us the time to explore your experience and to think about different ways of responding to whatever life brings. Shorter term therapy can also be very helpful if you have a specific issue which is troubling you.
