Ilona Snitka
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About me
I am a qualified psychotherapist with a background in medicine. I work with adults and young people from diverse backgrounds with the utmost sensitivity and respect for their particular circumstances.
My main therapy approaches are psychodynamic and person-centred within a pluralistic framework, which means that I work collaboratively with the client and may use different approaches (similar to integrative therapy), depending on what can be the most useful for the client at the moment.
I work face to face in private practice in the Newington area of Edinburgh, offering long and short term individual psychotherapy.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Abertay University, 2022, MSc in Counselling
- Riga Stradins University (Latvia), 2007, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine
- Riga Stradins University, 2003, Medical Doctor
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
£60.00 per session
Additional information
Initial in-person session - £20
Please email me in the first instance to arrange an initial consultation which will be face to face. It is a chance for us to get to know each other and for you to decide whether you are comfortable working with me as your therapist.
Further information
I work Mondays to Wednesdays - depending on availability
