Holly Taylor
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About me
I am a Gestalt trained therapist working with clients in South East London. I have been in private practice since 2016 as well as having worked in various other mental health settings. I work with individual adults of all ages and I have an interest in how clients experience, manage and meet the world and their relationships in it.
I have rooms in the London Bridge area.
Gestalt therapy nurtures a curiosity about where one's energy, excitement, joy or peace of mind is being blocked or impeded. At the heart of this approach is the belief that we create ourselves in relation and through 'contact'.
In a first session we can decide what it might be like working together and explore what the shape of the work might be. This can include suggestions for onward referral if that seems more helpful to you.
If you'd like to enquire about making an appointment please use the contact form and I will get in touch with you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training and Qualifications
- Certificate in Psychodynamic and Humanistic Counselling (Goldsmiths)
- BACP accredited Diploma in Counselling ( Gestalt Centre, London)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Couples Work (Relational Change)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Gestalt Therapy theory (Gestalt Centre, London)
- BACP Accreditation
- MA in Advanced Clinical Practice (Minster Centre) (completing this year)
Experience
I have worked for an IAPT service with NHS clients and for a leading children's mental health charity, supporting parents and parenting. I have been in private practice since 2016. I have worked voluntarily with students in adult education, with new mothers and mothers to be in a peri-natal charity and with adults in community settings. I engage in regular continuing professional development activities to refresh and enhance my work. I am currently writing a dissertation about how the climate emergency affects therapists and the work we do.
I do not currently offer counselling work with couples.
Member organisations
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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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I also have experience of working with post-natal distress and anxiety; transitional times such as menopause; divorce and separation; parenthood and student life and study leading to changes in working life. I have an interest in climate psychology and I am a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and The Relational School.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I save two spaces for those who through low or fixed incomes can't pay the full fee. Please enquire.
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Please ask about availability by email.
Further information
I prefer working with my clients face to face and therefore I only use remote sessions as a contingency. I do not now take on new work using only video sessions.
