Helen Sealy
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About me
Hi I'm Helen and I am an experienced counsellor who will offer you a safe, comfortable and confidential space to explore any difficulties you may have in your life. I work with older children, young people and adults offering creative ways of working alongside talking therapy. However, this does not mean you need to be artistic, it simply means I sometimes use alternative methods to help you explore difficult feelings that you may be finding hard to speak about.
Sometimes things in our past can affect our present life or you may have current issues that are affecting your well being; you might just feel unhappy in life but are not sure why. Exploring these issues in a confidential space free of criticism, blame or judgement can offer you the opportunity to make your own choices, make changes in your life and find a way forward.
Contacting a counsellor can take a lot of courage but I will offer you an enriching therapeutic relationship and once that first step is taken it can feel a little easier. My overall approach to therapy is humanistic however, I trained as an integrative counsellor so I am able to tailor the sessions according to what I think might help.
Work with children and young people.
After many years of working with adults I went on to do additional counselling training so that I could work with older children and young people. Since I obtained my additional qualification I have undertaken vast amounts of work with this younger age group and feel privileged to have had these opportunities. Children often struggle to communicate their feelings and sometimes do not have the vocabulary to express what is happening to them so my skills in creative ways of working can help them work through any issues they have. Children and young people have the same rights to confidentiality as adults but working alongside parents can often be extremely beneficial so this can be discussed at the first appointment.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Advanced Diploma in Counselling Supervision
- Diploma in Sandplay
- Post qualifying diploma in counselling children and young people
- Post-graduate diploma in integrative counselling
- Certificate in person-centred counselling
- BA in community and youth studies
Other training
- Level 2 safeguarding children and young people
- Connecting through creativity
- Managing suicide intervention
- Emotional intelligence
- Youth mental health first aid
- Creative arts in counselling
- Child protection training - protecting children online
- Self harm training.
I have a private practice in Wellington where I offer counselling for adults and young people. I have been practising as a counsellor since 2005 working in a variety of settings including schools, a children's hospice, a college and a charity offering counselling to people who have experienced abuse or sexual trauma.
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
£50.00 - £60.00
Additional information
Introductory session £25 for up to an hour.
Subsequent sessions £50 for 50 minutes.
Evening sessions £60 for 50 minutes
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Further information
I am a member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) and I work within their ethical framework.
