Isha Isidore

Verified Professional Verified Professional
Verified Professional

Every professional displayed on Counselling Directory has been independently verified by our team to ensure they have suitable credentials to practise.

MBACP (Accred)
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

London, Essex, E15
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

About me

I'm fully qualified Integrative Counsellor.

My work is client-centred, I work with the client as an individual that affirms their inherent value as an individual.

Who I am

I have always been an activist working for various grassroots organisations within London global women’s strike, Women against Rape, RAMFEL, always been passionate about making a difference.

My career has always been within the caring field I worked in refuges for women fleeing domestic violence, hostels for homelessness and substance misuse, safe houses for trafficked women, day centres for the elderly and homeless. Working with the most marginalised people in society that are often overlooked and ignored, as a black woman raised by immigrant parents I understood what it felt like to be marginalised. I saw how hard my parents had to work and all the racism they experienced. I think that made me more passionate to make a difference. I have always been outspoken and often been told by others I’m a rebel. Fighting for injustice is something I think its more vital now more than ever.
I’m still heavily involved in my activist work and with my counselling practice, it helps me be more attuned to the many circumstances that clients whether that be discrimination, poverty, addiction, depression, anxiety, bereavement.

Working person-centred but also integrating other modalities and techniques, allows the therapy to truly be client focussed and the therapeutic alliance to develop organically.

Getting my BA in Integrative Counselling and my MSc in Mental Health Cultural and Global Perspectives in Mental health Care which enhanced my clinical practice in awareness and treatment in working with diverse cultures and ethnicities particularly around their understanding of mental health and incorporating intercultural techniques to my own clinical practice.

How counselling can help you

I can listen to your story without judgement in a safe and secure space, help you understand yourself better, gain more self-awareness, developing coping mechanisms, help you make positive changes in your life, help empower yourself and advocate for yourself.

What you can expect from the first session?

Our first counselling session will be an assessment session, find out what you want from counselling, how I work,  whether we will work well together and also if it's something you want to engage with.

The assessment session is free

Training, qualifications & experience

  • Short term Counselling IAPT Service NHS
  • Long term Counselling Substance misuse CGL (change,grow.live)
  • Meridian Psychotherapy/ EFT  Diploma accredited by CMA (complementary medical association)
  • BA in Integrative Counselling
  • MSc Mental Health Cultural and Global perspectives in Mental Health Care

Member organisations

Registered / Accredited

Registered / Accredited

Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.

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).

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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.

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Other areas of counselling I deal with

  • Racism
  • Internalised Racism
  • Body confidence
  • beauty standards

Fees

£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session

Concessions offered for

  • Low income
  • Students

Additional information

Concession rate for low-incomes, students £25 per session

Normal rate £50

When I work

Weekday evenings 6pm-9pm

London, Essex, E15

Type of session

Online
Phone

Types of client

Young people
Adults
Older Adults
Groups
Employee Assistance Programme
Isha Isidore
Isha Isidore