Grace Hernandez
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About me
I am a trained psychotherapeutic counsellor offering short-term and long term counselling via zoom. I currently have availability on Fridays.
I create an environment that allows my clients the opportunity to reflect on events and situations that they have previously experienced, whether that is from their childhood or more recently or indeed currently facing. We will explore the impacts that these past or current circumstances are having on you and how you interact with the world around you in a safe and contained setting. This may include feeling things such as burnout, anxiety or depression.
I offer sessions where this can be done with the hope that you may get to know and understand yourself better and why you are the way you are, unique.
The modality/approach I use is integrative, this means that I individualise my work by blending multiple different therapies to understand and work with you in a way that is meaningful. This includes humanistic, person centred, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, developmental, as well as others.
I work with the Ethical guidelines of the BACP upholding confidentiality.
If you are looking for a counselling email me for an appointment and we can discuss the future of working together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I currently occupy a Wellbeing Lead post at one of the Colleges at the University of Cambridge, supporting students, staff and Fellows. I offer 1:1 consultations with members of the community. I also facilitating training to equip the community to thrive under the intense pressure of Cambridge where many feel a sense of perfectionism and imposter syndrome. I believe understanding and accepting oneself is perfection and we can all learn how to achieve this.
I also have 10 years experience of working within mental health services. This has been amongst various roles; in both voluntary and paid capacities spanning from acute hospitals to the charity sector. These include the NHS, a private secure forensic hospital, MIND and SOVA Support Link (working with exoffenders with lifelong psychological and communication needs). Working with a variety of diagnoses such as anxiety, social anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), depression and trauma to those struggling with low self-esteem, low self-confidence, stress from workload or family issues, relationship problems.
Qualifications:
- MSc Therapeutic Counselling (University of Greenwich)
- BSc Psychology (University of Roehampton)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Diploma (CBT)
Further Training:
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Management Practitioner (PTSD) (BYS Group)
- Suicide Prevention/Mitigation
- Mental capacity act
- Mental health act
- Domestic Abuse Champion
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Free initial online session
Additional information
I offer a free 20 minute initial session in order for you to review the counselling contract and talk about what brings you to counselling. This will allow you to decide if you wish to have further sessions. These regular sessions would commence the same time and day each week.
1 session = 50 minutes
When I work
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Further information
I offer both short term and long term counselling to individuals.
Currently, I am offering zoom counselling.
I currently have availability on Fridays.
Please do email me if you have any questions or queries or wish to arrange an initial session.
