Hannah Taylor
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About me
I'm aware it takes courage to begin counselling and I aim to make you feel safe and welcome.
I offer an initial, 30 minute, consultation to explore and clarify your needs. There is no fee for this session. We will meet and discuss what it is you're hoping to get from counselling and what I can offer you as a counsellor. This is an important session where we can talk through what is involved in the counselling process. It offers us an opportunity to meet and see if we feel we can work together.
What does therapy involve?
The capacity to talk about your life, feelings, emotions, relationships, ways of thinking and patterns of behaviour with someone you trust. We all need a little help at times and I aim to offer you a space where you can take a fresh look at your issues and understand them a bit better, giving you new choices about how to live your life.
It can be a deep process. My job is to facilitate this by being open, non-judgemental and encouraging. Helping you to rediscover your strengths and resources, to gain clarity, confidence and a more robust sense of self.
Where I work
In North Cadbury, (between Sparkford and Castle Cary)
I also offer sessions by video or telephone.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Some of the issues that might bring people to counselling are:
- Anxiety, worry, stress and depression
- Relationship difficulties e.g. affairs, separation and divorce
- Self development
- Spirituality
- Work related issues e.g redundancy, bullying
- Anger Management and communication e.g. arguments or not talking
- Bereavement and other losses
- Difficult childhood memories
- Health related issues e.g terminal or chronic illness
- Sexuality
- Life transitions e.g new baby, child leaving home, retirement
- Low confidence or self esteem
- Difficulty sleeping
Training, qualifications & experience
I started work in the caring professions as a nurse in 1983. After working with seriously ill and dying patients I felt there must be something more I could offer. This lead to my explorations of shiatsu (a hands-on body therapy), deep healing energy work and spirituality.
I realised that awareness and understanding of our issues is core to deep and lasting healing. I feel counselling offers a space where one can gain a new perspective and insights into the situations that are troubling us.
Drawing on my wealth of experience I offer an integrated, holistic approach for clients with a focus on embodied awareness. I am an experienced Therapist and have been in private practice since 2013. I am now a fully accredited member of the BACP.
- MBACP (Accred)- Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, Accredited member of the BACP.
- Former RGN - qualified general nurse
- FwSS- Member of the Register, Shiatsu Society (Fellow)
- Former MNFSH - Member, National Federation Spiritual Healers
Continuous Professional Development:
2024: Treating Survivors of Coercive Control in Narcissistic Abuse; Deep Release Training - When Mothers Wound; Taming the Inner Critic,
2023: Deep Release Training – Playing Games in Relationships; Working creatively with Blocked Anger.
2022: Deep Release Training – Working creatively with Aspects of Self; Attachment behaviour in the Counselling room.
2021: Carolyn Spring – Working with Shame; Working with dissociative disorders in clinical practice.
2020: Mental Health and the Body; Dealing with Distress; Working with suicide and self harm, Carolyn Spring. Safeguarding children, levels 1, 2 and 3. Safeguarding adults, levels 1, 2 and 3.
2019: Emotional Regulation, Integrating Artwork in Counselling; TA 101.
2018: BACP Children and Young People conference (online), Self-harm, the solution not the problem, Working with young people who self-harm; Clients on Medication; Assertiveness; An Introduction to Modern Addictions,
2017: Attachment Theory, Working with Children and Young people; Eating Disorders; Transactional Analysis; Boarding School Syndrome; Motivational Interviewing; 2 Day Introduction to NLP
2016: Working with Trauma in the Body and Mind; Chelsea’s Choice, Child Sexual Exploitation.
2013: Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling at Strode College, Street
2012: Cruse Bereavement course, including A Child’s Grief module.
2011: Counselling Skills and Studies at Strode College, Street
1992-95: Shiatsu Practitioner Course, European Shiatsu School, London
1983-1986: Registered General Nurse training, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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
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).
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Initial consultation/assessment - 30 mins - no fee
Counselling - £60 for a 50 min session
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