Holly Simmonds BSc(Hons). MNCS (Accred).Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Training, qualifications & experience

Having completed four years of Post Graduate training towards becoming a certified Psychotherapist in Transactional Analysis, I am continuing my clinical UKCP and UKATA registration requirements over the next two or three years in order to gain full registration as a Psychotherapist.

• Dip. Couns. MNCS (Accred). BACP Accredited.
• BSc (Hons).

I worked for 18 months with acquired brain injury clients as a volunteer counsellor for Headway East Sussex and Worthing Sixth Form College.

I am a qualified Drug & Alcohol Counsellor - having trained and worked as a volunteer counsellor for CGL (formally CRI - Crime Reductive Initiative).

• Advanced Counselling Skills.
• Foundation Certificate Transactional Analysis.
• TA 101.
• Dip. Counselling skills.
• Dip. Hypnotherapy.
• Dip. Hypno-NLP.
• My qualifications are fully accredited and recognised by the relevant governing bodies of which I am a member - UKATA, NCS, BACP, GHR.
• Enhanced DBS.

My Insurance cover for Public Liability is £2 million.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

I am able to offer specialist experience of working with Acquired Brain Injury.

Further information

Principles and Ethical Codes of Practice.

As a therapist I have a "Duty of Care" to You my client, which means putting your interests first and ensuring your therapy is empathetic and supportive whilst we work towards your symptoms, issues or problems being resolved.

To that end I underpin my practice with UKATA's code of ethics, which include their Guiding Principles of;

• Open communication.
• Above all doing no harm.
• Working with 'The contractural method',

and Philosophical beliefs of;

• Everyone is OK
• Everyone has the capacity to think and influence their life by the decisions they make.
• Any decision can be changed.

My aim… Is to utilise my clinical and life skills in helping people who may be struggling with problems or issues in their lives.

To achieve the necessary changes during the course of your therapy, my purpose is to ensure that You feel safe and held in a non-judgmental and confidential environment.

Where you are able to discuss your thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions that need processing and working with. You are at all times in control of your therapy and your therapy is tailored to your needs, whilst focusing on empowering you to improve your life as much as you choose to...

So… “let me, help you, help yourself”.

Other Helpful Information.

Being in an easily accessible, semi-rural location means not only a peaceful setting from which to offer therapy, but also plenty of private parking.

I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist and on occasion, should a client request, am able to use this therapy in combination with Counselling and Psychotherapy.

I have specialist experience of working with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma, multi-systemic health problems, including M.E, teenage anxiety and young people, brain injuries, alcohol and drug dependence.