Fiona Ryan

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Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5
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About me

I am trained as an ‘integrative’ counsellor, allowing a variety of techniques and ideas within my counselling practice. My main inspiration is Carl Rogers’ approach of ‘person centred therapy’, which is non-directive and relies on the authenticity of the counsellor. I believe that it is the quality of the counselling relationship, rather than any particular approach or technique which creates a truly therapeutic and beneficial experience for the client. I aim to achieve certain ‘core conditions’ within the therapeutic environment, including respect, warmth, empathy and unconditional positive regard. The counselling relationship is unique and very different from our interactions with friends and relatives. It provides a special setting in which a person can achieve acceptance and understanding, explore their feelings, express their needs and work towards finding solutions for the difficulties they are experiencing in their life.

I am also inspired by the ‘skilled helper’ model created by Egan; it is an approach which is designed to help people “to manage their problems in living more effectively and develop unused opportunities more fully”. This theory of counselling involves working with the client’s own agenda, and their hopes, aims and objectives. It is not the counsellor’s role to advise the client about the best course of action or tell them how they should live their life.

I have a problem-focused approach to therapy. Whilst it is sometimes very important to reflect on things which happened in the past, I am also concerned with helping the client to actively explore and address problems which are occurring now, in order to make things better in the future.

Training, qualifications & experience

I have a special interest in the following areas: Anxiety, depression and low self-esteem, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD/Asperger’s Syndrome), bereavement and loss, workplace conflict and workplace stress, infertility, relationship issues, parenting issues, alcohol issues and addiction, childhood abuse. I worked in the public sector as a workplace counsellor for 5 years and I was also in private practice in London for several years.

Qualifications:

  • BSc Psychology (1992)
  • Postgraduate Diploma Counselling (1999)
  • MA Counselling and Psychotherapy (2001)
  • BACP registered member

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Fees

£55.00 per session

Additional information

I charge £55 per session. Sessions last one hour. Weekend and evening sessions are available for £60 per session.

When I work

Sessions are available Monday-Friday. Weekend and evening sessions are also available.

Further information

I am available to provide face-to-face counselling sessions in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and sessions can also be conducted over the phone or online via Zoom, Skype, Teams, FaceTime or any other online services which are available.

Face-to-face counselling takes place in my therapy room in the centre of Stroud.
Each counselling session lasts one hour and will usually take place at the same time and on the same day each week.

I am available for short-term and long-term counselling. In some cases the best results are achieved through ‘brief counselling’ which involves the client setting personal goals and working towards these targets with support from the counselling process, over 6- 12 sessions. Working within a ‘brief counselling’ model helps the client to focus clearly on what they want to achieve. However, the length of the counselling relationship will depend on the client’s individual needs, and how helpful they are finding the counselling process.

Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone
Home visits

Types of client

Young people
Adults
Older Adults