About me
I'm Hazel Cawood (she/her), a UKCP-accredited Gestalt Psychotherapist, Integrative Counsellor, and Supervisor with over 14 years of experience. I'm based in Clifton, Bristol and also offer sessions online.
Therapy with me is a space to slow down - to bring curiosity to what's happening in your inner and outer world, and to explore how that shapes the way you relate to yourself and others. Whatever brings you here, I offer a calm, inclusive environment where you can think and feel without having to manage how you come across.
People come to me with a wide range of experiences. Some are navigating anxiety, low mood, or trauma. Others are working through relationship patterns, questions of identity, gender, or sexuality, or finding their way through a significant life transition - such as bereavement, becoming a parent, children leaving home, migration, health conditions, or changes in relationship such as moving in together, separation, or divorce. Work and career shifts - changing jobs, changing direction, or retiring - can also bring a surprising loss of meaning or groundedness.
I also have a particular interest in experiences that can touch deeply on how we feel about our bodies, our sense of self, and our place in the world: peri-menopause and menopause, fertility and infertility, pregnancy and baby loss, and pregnancy after loss. I also work with people living with chronic illness, chronic pain, or disability - experiences that can involve an ongoing process of grief, adjustment, and renegotiating your relationship with your body and what feels possible. Across all of these, the emotional terrain can be complex and shifting, carrying grief, guilt, loneliness, or uncertainty that can be hard to hold alone.
My approach is grounded in Gestalt therapy and parts-based work (sometimes called Internal Family Systems). I work in a trauma-informed way, which means paying attention to safety, pacing, and what your nervous system needs - not just what your mind is ready to explore. Rather than focusing only on insight or understanding, we work with what's alive in the present moment - noticing patterns, making contact with different parts of your experience, and finding the possibility of choice and change from there.
I welcome people from all walks of life and all forms of relating - partners, family, friendships, chosen family, and professional relationships. My practice is LGBTQIA+-affirmative and inclusive of diverse identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have 14 years of clinical experience supporting people with a wide range of experiences and needs. This includes emotional and mental health such as depression, anxiety, OCD, and substance use; hormonal and reproductive health including PMDD, fertility, and peri- and post-natal wellbeing; and trauma, including birth trauma, relational and identity trauma, CPTSD, PTSD, sexual and relational abuse, and childhood sexual abuse (CSA).
I also work with people exploring identity and difference, including gender, sexual and relationship diversity (GSRD), high sensitivity (HSP), and neurodivergence, as well as those navigating displacement, migration, health conditions, life transitions, or relationship difficulties.
I am an accredited member of UKCP and a registered member of BACP, adhering to their ethical principles and professional code of conduct. I also hold full professional indemnity insurance, and an enhanced DBS certificate.
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
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Fees
£75.00 - £100.00
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fee for self-paying clients is £75 for individuals and £100 for couples. I offer a reduced fee for the initial session: £65 for individuals and £90 for couples.
I also accept Healix, Aviva, AXA, and WPA insurance. Please let me know if you'd like to use your insurance and we can discuss how this works.
When I work
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Further information
Get in Touch
Reach out for a quick chat or to book an initial session at either 07402 078 852 or enquiries@ivypractice.co.uk, with a couple of lines about what you might want to work on together. Please include your mobile number if you're happy to have me contact you by text.
NB - I respond to all enquiries so please check your Spam folder if you don't see a response in your inbox within 48 hours.
