Dr Ernest Brewster
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About me
I love my work and I'm passionate about helping people find the best way forward.
An experienced counsellor working online, so you can enjoy counselling from the comfort of your own home. As an integrative counsellor, I draw from many disciplines to ensure I can offer counselling of sufficient flexibility to meet your needs. I work with people of all ages. I love working with students, where I have had a great deal of success; I have an interest in men's issues and a passion for working with those suffering or surviving abuse (physical; emotional; sexual) and the residues of trauma. I work with couples and others in relationships who have lost their way and need help to move ahead. I have a sensitive blame-free approach to relationship, family and couple counselling, emphasising the need for collaboration and teamwork, rather than finding fault with individuals members of the relationship. Experience tells me that this is essential in making sustainable change, building skills, understanding and attitudes that will last.
We all have it within ourselves to solve our problems, but sometimes need help to find and explore our inner resources. We are all individuals, and what works for one person may not work for another. I am flexible and pragmatic, collaborating with you to meet your needs; to go where you want to go to make your life better.
I understand how all of us are troubled at times and sometimes need help to resolve issues that if left might lead to problems that overwhelm us later. If you need to reach out for help and support, I offer a warm, safe, empathic and non-judgemental space to explore what you wish to talk about. Please call me for a free and confidential chat.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have both a Professional and an Advanced Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy and an Advanced Certificate in Couples Counselling. I also have a qualification in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
I have broad experience across all age groups, in particular with students, with men and with sufferers and survivors of domestic and other forms of abuse. I have a great deal of experience with couples and family counselling.
I am an eclectic counsellor, making use of different approaches (e.g., person centred, psychodynamic, object relations, transactional analysis, CBT, IFS, EMDR, ACT and DBT) to meet specific client needs. Where appropriate, I adopt a trauma and neuroscience in formed approach to my work.
I have specialised training in online and other remote forms of counselling as well as in face-to-face working.
I have completed counselling supervisor training.
Member organisations
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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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I have specific experience of working with adult survivors of childhood sexual and other abuse.
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 - £105.00
Additional information
My standard fee for a 50-minute individual counselling session is between £70 and £100. The fee for a 50-minute couples counselling session ranges from £75 to £105. I do offer some concessions.
