Hilary Sanders

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MBACP Registered
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location_on London, SE24
Available for new clients
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About me

I am an experienced couple and individual psychotherapist and counsellor, working in Herne Hill, 1 mile from Brixton tube, 3 mins from Loughborough Junction overground station. Buses; 35, 45, 345, P4

I offer early morning, daytime and evening appointments.

Training, qualifications & experience

I trained with London Marriage Guidance 20 years ago, completing a 3 year diploma in Couple Counselling and a one year Foundation course in Psychosexual Counselling with The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships and have worked in a variety of settings since. For the last 17 years I have worked in private practice and was affiliated to Relate for ten years. I continue to undertake professional training and meet regularly with other therapists to deepen our practice and exchange ideas. I feel well equipped to meet the person or couple who enters the room and help them identify their specific needs and work towards a new and enhanced understanding.

I help the client(s) to re-evaluate their ingrained personal narratives and beliefs about themselves and understand the effect that these may be having on current behaviour and thinking. Often in life we get stuck in repetitive patterns which can lead to low self esteem, depression, irritability and circular thinking and arguments. The origins of these mental and emotional cul-de-sacs need to be tracked and understood before they can be left behind. Much of the process is about becoming more conscious of the unconscious patterns and responses and so enabling different choices in reacting to people and situations and emotions. The more we understand and know ourselves, with compassion, the less we are encumbered by old survival strategies, once useful but now not so helpful and then we can experience life and relationships differently and more productively. The work can enable a more reflective response rather than a reactive one, which can change the way couples interact and the resulting atmosphere. For individuals the experience can change current relationships with all those encountered and enhance a sense of fulfilment in the self and acceptance, without a continual search for the elusive magic bullet. I don't have any magic bullets but I do believe that inhabiting oneself more fully and compassionately is more effective and lasting and brings about real change.

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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).

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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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Areas of counselling I deal with

Fees

£85.00 per session

Concessions offered for

  • check_circle Low income

Additional information

I usually charge £85 for a 50 minute, once weekly session. For low income clients who are able to attend in the daytime there is some room for negotiation.

When I work

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Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night

I offer early morning, daytime and evening appointments.

Type of session

In person

Types of client

Young people (13-17)
Adults (25-64)
Older Adults (65+)
Couples