Gemma Mitchell
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About me
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I offer sessions face to face in Pontefract, Wakefield City Centre, and online via Zoom.
I am an integrative psychotherapist - this means I use multiple counselling approaches and techniques within my work, therefore I can work in a way that best suits each individual client rather than be fixed to one specific mode of therapy.
I qualified in 2017 and became Accredited by the BACP in 2019. Accredited is a quality standard for experienced practitioners and means I employ high standards of knowledge, experience and have a commitment to ongoing professional development.
I am also a qualified Clinical Supervisor offering supervision to other counsellors.
In my private practice, I have special interests in working with clients who struggle with their relationship with food, particularly binge eating and obesity, and also neurodivergent clients (including self diagnosis) as well as transgender and non-binary individuals.
I am also an affiliate counsellor for multiple EAPs, offering short term solution focussed counselling for workplace clients.
I have extensive experience working with all forms of anxiety and low mood/depression, I believe this is something we can all experience at some point in our lives. My speciality is being able to sit with clients in the emotional pain they are experiencing and be alongside them whilst making sense of it together. I draw upon a range of techniques and methods to do this and always work at the pace the client feels most comfortable with. I have a strong drive to help clients work towards self understanding, self compassion and empowerment.
I have experience working in a women’s only centre providing time-limited IAPT therapy to women of all ages suffering from mental health issues, mainly complex trauma, sexual abuse, childhood sexual abuse, and domestic abuse. Also, a range of other problems such as anxiety, depression, stress, bereavement, eating disorders, addictions, chronic pain conditions, rape, anger management.
I also work for the University of Leeds as part of the Disability Services support worker team, as a Specialist Mentor for students with diagnosed mental health difficulties and other chronic conditions. The mentoring role allows a more developmental therapeutic relationship where there is collaboration and support tailored to a variety of aspects of a student’s life, to encourage and ultimately empower the student.
All potential clients will be offered an initial clinical assessment, I will need some personal information and we will talk about your wellbeing and what has brought you to therapy. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and we can agree together how you want to work, we can also decide together if I am the right therapist for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Psychology (BSc Hons)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy
- BACP Accredited
- IAPT PCE-CfD Trained
- Training Courses I have completed:
- Narrative Exposure Therapy introduction
- Compassion Focused Therapy – Theory and Practice
- Eating and Weight: Through the Kaleidoscope (Bulimia)
- Through the Kaleidoscope of Eating & Weight: (Obesity)
- Living With COVID In A Fragmented World
- Working with Food Diaries in counselling for eating disorders
- An introduction to the Polyvagal Theory and it's uses in therapy
- Eating Disorders and Trauma
- Working with suicide in private practice
- Online counselling training
- Adapting IAPT PCE-CfD for Remote Working
- Awareness of Gambling behaviour
- Annual Safeguarding training
- Experience of delivering the “Freedom Programme” domestic abuse workshop
- Working with mental health in the workplace
- Self Harm awareness
- Responding to students in crisis
- ADHD Awareness
- Autism Awareness
- Transgender Awareness training for professionals
- Completed Mindfulness based stress reduction course
- Understanding eating disorders
Member organisations
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
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This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
Costs:
- Initial Assessment / Consultation session: £50 per session.
- Adults (18+): £60 per session
- Each session lasts 50 minutes.
How to make payment:
I am currently accepting bank transfers only. Bank details will be given upon appointment confirmation.
When I work
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Mondays: Online/Pontefract
Tuesdays: Online/Pontefract
Wednesdays: Online
Thursdays: Wakefield