This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Currently accepting new clients.
ACOA articles:
- Adult children of alcoholics and the problems that persist
- Adult children of alcoholics – unhooking from the past
I am NCAC Accredited - meaning I have jumped through all sorts of hoops for my counselling governing body, addictionprofessionals.org.uk, to become a better counsellor and therefore better able to help you. I meet with a trained supervisor regularly for the same purpose.
See fees below.
I've also written two articles on tinnitus at the bottom of this profile: "Tinnitus - adapting and coping techniques" & "Tinnitus - learning to live with it".
ADDITIONAL AREAS OF COUNSELLING I CAN HELP WITH:
- Adult Children of Alcoholics issues (ACOA)
- Giving up Smoking
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Low Self-Confidence/ Low Self-Esteem
EXPERIENCE:
I run a private practice and have worked in both daycare (DHI, Bath) and residential (Clouds House/Action on Addiction) centres and have long experience in 12 Step methods (abstinence) and Harm Reduction models of treatment (cutting down). Working collaboratively together we will seek solutions best suited to you and, in the case of an addiction, help in overcoming a problem over which you may feel you have little or no control.
ACCESS:
Face-to-face sessions are available to those living in the Bath, UK area.
Many clients are seeing me through 50 minute Zoom sessions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
I hold National Counsellor Accreditation (NCAC), am an Accredited Drug & Alcohol Counsellor, and an Advanced Practitioner Member of Addiction Professionals.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Addiction Professionals (Formerly: SMMGP/FDAP Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals - Advanced Practioner) Accredited NCAC.
- FDSc in Addictions Counselling (University of Bath/ Action On Addiction).
- Intermediate Certificate in Counselling Skills. (Bath College)
- Models and approaches used:
Egan's Skilled Helper Model
Person-centred counselling (Rogerian Approach)
Abstinence Based Approach (12 Step)
Harm Reduction (Relapse Prevention)
Motivational Interviewing MI (Miller & Rollnick)
As counsellors, we are strongly encouraged to advance our own professional and personal development on a continuing basis These are some of the CPD modules and courses that I have attended since qualifying: - Transactional Analysis - TA 101 (Iron Mill College, Exeter)
- Understanding and Recognising Sex Addiction (ISAT Training)
- SWEDA: Eating disorders training for professionals.
- Boarding School Survivors Workshops, London.
- Introduction to Use of EMDR in Traumatic Experience (Iron Mill College, Exeter)
- Introduction to Pesso Boyden Psychotherapy - A New Approach to Healing the Past.
- Security (re)gained - Attachment as a therapeutic modality.
- The Music of Being - Becoming a self through the therapeutic qualities of music.
- The Long Goodbye - A Psycho-social investigation of endings in life and therapy.
- Group Analysis Today.
- The Rescued Fragment – What underlies shame?
- Between the Given and What Gives.
- Co-Morbidities: What is the Future Direction?
- The Buddhist Wheel of Life - Six Realms of Existence - Their place in the therapy room.
Member organisations
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
12 Step programmes of recovery (AA; ACOA; ACA).
Motivation to change (Motivational Interviewing).
Tinnitus support (ringing in the ears).
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
I offer a brief free initial telephone assessment or simple chat.
Then if we both decide go ahead, £60 per 50 minute sessions.
When I work
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I'd appreciate you contacting me directly through the Counselling Directory or by email to make a booking.
Further information
Hugh has worked for many years in the music industry as a musician/composer with several West End shows to his credit and another running at London's Roundhouse. He spent 20 years in Hong Kong writing music for Chinese Theatre companies and TV Advertising before returning to live and work in the lovely city of Bath.
His counselling studies started at Bath College under Cynthia Barker followed by a two year Addictions Counselling course at the University of Bath under the auspices of Action on Addiction. He has supported the counselling team at Clouds House, has frontline experience with Developing Health & Independence (DHI) in Bath, and has been running his own private practice since 2013.
He also still finds time to compose, create ceramic designs, and produce audiobooks for the BBC. And as a qualified pilot, Hugh can be found at 30,000 feet on Thursday evenings flying around the world with the Bristol Flight Simulation Group.