Estelle Linney
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About me
Finding and choosing a counsellor who you feel you could connect with can be daunting and yet one of the best choices in life you can make.
Together we begin to build a trusting therapeutic relationship that is both empowering and hopeful. This relationship helps you to navigate through a challenging moment in your life. Together we can explore what you feel ready and safe to share – whether these are current, buried or almost forgotten experiences. I will be at your side to listen and will always relate to your unique circumstances and way of being; facilitative of your change and growth process.
I am a qualified clinical counsellor, primarily practicing from a Person-Centred Approach to therapy, grounded on the values of empathic understanding, acceptance and congruence. I am currently studying for my MA in Clinical Counselling, looking into the effects of dementia on family adult carers.
I have extensive experience of working within both the public and private sector, more recently practicing within the voluntary sector providing counselling for adult carers.
I strongly believe in working at your pace, whilst always providing a trusting and safe environment for you to find ways to explore your feelings and to understanding your emotions that are causing you concern.
My personal and academic interest and skills are working with adults who are caring for family or friends diagnosed with dementia.
I work with people who are experiencing feelings of loss and bereavement, stress, anxiety, depression, low-mood, post-traumatic stress, bullying, abuse, health issues, work related problems, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
If you feel we could work together, I will help you explore and process your difficult thoughts and feelings that you are experiencing and will support you to work with them and through them.
Through exploring, discovering and accepting your emotions, you can find a way to move forward towards a better and more fulfilled and meaningful life.
I am an Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) and work within their ethical framework. I hold a current enhanced DBS disclosure and have full insurance to practice.
Training, qualifications & experience
Academic Qualifications
- MA (Dist) Clinical Counselling -
- BSc (Hons) Wildlife Conservation - Liverpool John Moore's University.
- PGCert in Counselling Skills - University of Chester.
Continued Professional Development (CPD)
- Workshop in Pluralistic Therapy - The pluralistic approach creates a framework in which practitioners can integrate a wide variety of understandings and methods into their practice. Delivered by Mick Cooper.
- Existential approach to therapy - This therapeutic approach is concerned with the understanding of people’s position in the world and with the clarification of what it means to them to be alive. Delivered by Emmy Van Deurzen.
- Working with suicide - Delivered by Andrew Reeves.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
If you are interested in engaging in Eco-therapy, then this can be discussed during initial counselling sessions or contact me for further information.
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Counselling Sessions £50/hour.
Eco-therapy Sessions £50/hour
Concessionary rates are available for students and people on low income.
When I work
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Monday - 11am - 5pm
Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 1.30pm
Thursday - 11am - 5pm
Friday - 11am - 5pm
Saturday - Closed
Sunday - Closed
Further information
I also have a deep belief in the healing power of connecting with nature and how this benefits mental health and general wellbeing. Together with traditional counselling, I offer a relatively new approach to counselling which embraces eco-therapy sessions. Should this be of interest, we could explore this further during your initial counselling sessions.
