Gayle Sykes
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About me
- You may have low self-esteem, be overly self-critical or experience fears of not being good enough.
- You may be struggling with anxiety, feel overwhelmed or stressed.
- You may be experiencing difficulties in your family or in your relationships with others.
- I have experience of working as a counsellor in the voluntary sector and in an NHS specialist counselling service.
- I worked in Social Care prior to my Psychotherapy training and have over 25 years of employed experience working with adults who are experiencing emotional difficulties.
- I also have experience of supporting women and men affected by pregnancy loss, TFMR and fertility difficulties.
- I am an integrative therapist, which means I am trained in a number of different approaches and tailor the way I work to meet your individual needs.
- My training was trauma informed.
- I can support you through our therapeutic relationship, to process difficult experiences and express difficult emotions.
- I can help you with identifying strategies and approaches to address immediate difficulties but also to make long term change.
- I can support you to gain insight and deepen your understanding and acceptance of yourself.
- Attending therapy can be very effective at supporting us to recognise and address unhelpful self-talk and our unrealistic expectations of ourselves.
- Working with a therapist can assist us to become more supportive and compassionate to ourselves, which generally reduces anxiety, overwhelm and unhappiness.
- I provide a free, no-obligation 30 minute initial face-to-face or online consultation, which provides you with an opportunity to see if I am the right fit for you as a therapist and enables me to explain how I work. Alternatively I offer a 20 minute intro phone call.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a postgraduate diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy (Level 7- BACP accredited course).
I have provided counselling in the NHS and for local charities, supporting individuals who experienced anxiety, trauma, grief, loss and/or have had negative experiences in relationships.
I have also provided counselling to women and men in an NHS service pregnancy loss service.
I have worked with adults struggling with anxiety and depression and those affected by difficult childhood experiences, family relationship breakdown and the loss of attachment figures growing up.
I also spent many years working in an adoption support social work service, supporting adopted adults, birth parents and adoptive parents.
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.
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial in-person or online session
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Further information
Therapy provides an opportunity to process difficult experiences and emotions. It can also help to reduce anxiety, overwhelm and low mood. I provide both long term and short term therapy, I work in a very collaborative way and undertake regular reviews to ensure that the support I am providing is meeting your needs.
Please email, text or call me to discuss the support I can offer. If you call and it doesn't go through please follow with a text or email so I can get back to you ASAP.
