About me
Hi, a warm welcome to my profile. We all have times when we difficulties we are experiencing, need extra support beyond talking to friends as family. I would really like to offer some help with this. It can be really helpful to have time to explore and untangle what is happening, explore new perspectives, and to try new strategies to find a clearer path through, and to learn new ways of managing emotions and situations. I am an experienced and accredited Psychotherapist, working with children, parents and adults.
If your concern is about your child, it can be reassuring to have support for both you and your child, to be supported and guided to help through the difficult time.
I have more than 30 years of experience of working with children and parents in schools and seventeen years of experience of working with both adults and children as a psychotherapist, and offering a specialised form of play therapy, Jungian, Kalffian Sandplay.
I work with young people, adults and parents to help with all forms of anxiety, depression, ADHD, Autism, grief, sleep and separation with children, difficulties around parents separating, self confidence and self esteem. I have training in all of these areas; particularly in anxiety, neurodiversity, depression grief, the emotional wellbeing of children, behaviour and parenting.
I am a fully qualified and BACP Accredited Integrative Counsellor, which means that I am able to use a number of different ways of working to best suit you, including CBT, Person-centered, Psychodynamic, Solution Focused therapy, the Emotional Freedom Therapy and Sandplay.
If you have any questions please email or text, and I will get back to you, and we can arrange a free initial phone call to discuss how I could help.
I look forward to hearing from you, Very best wishes, Erica
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an experienced and fully qualified and accredited Integrative Psychotherapist. I am an Accredited member of the BACP and UKRCP.
I am particularly experienced in working with anxiety, depression, bereavement, stress, confidence and sleep difficulties with all ages. I also have experience of self harm including hair pulling.
I am a Barnardo's approved adoption counsellor, which means that I can work with all those involved in adoption; adoptive parents and family, the original birth family and those who are adopted. I am also trained by Barnardo's in Attachment Focused Counselling, which is highly important in all areas of adoption but also in any family and close relationships.
I offer Jungian Kalffian Sandplay to children, teenagers and adults. This is very powerful work which has the advantage of working through any difficulties without needing to talk about it directly. It feels very soothing and gentle to do.
I am also an Advanced practitioner in the Emotional Freedom Technique, often known as "Tapping" and also in "Picture tapping." These techniques work in a similar way to reflexology and acupuncture, by tapping acupressure points, and I find them particularly useful for working on anxiety, stress and other distressing situations.
All of these techniques are helpful for adults and children, but I also have a range of extra training including art therapy techniques, and schema therapy as I find a range of techniques to be effective.
I am also trained in "Webster Stratton parenting" which can be helpful when working with parents, in terms of improving behaviour, compliance and the relationship between the parent and young person.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I work with all emotional, relationship and life change difficulties, but have particular experience in all forms of:
- All issues related to adoption
- Anxiety
- Stress and depression
- Difficult emotions following grief
- Loss and attachment including loss of a pet
- Divorce and blended families
- Low confidence and low self-esteem
- Difficulties within relationships and families such as divorce, adoption, blended families and step-parents, and life events such as redundancy, retirement, and children leaving home.
- Death of Pets
- Difficulties with Children
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Empty nest syndrome
- Retirement
- Life changes
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
- Adults usually £50, discounts if online or during the day
- Counselling for children and teenagers £37
- Troubleshooting for parents £45 for 45 minute zoom call
- Telephone sessions. (Counselling) £46 for 50 mins
For organisations, insurance or those requiring receipts, fees can be arranged. I am happy to arrange counselling sessions for different members of the family, eg parent and young person, separately or on relationship advice for individual clients .Reductions can be made in case of need, or less frequent sessions or shorter sessions available to reduce cost.
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