James Neville
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About me
Hiya, my name is Jay. I am a BACP-registered counsellor and I specialise in offering trauma-informed, affirmative counselling to LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent people. If you've been looking for someone to support you in making sense of being you, I might be your person. I have been practicing for 5 years and have 2000+ hours of clinical experience working almost exclusively with LGBTQ+ and/or neurodivergent people within the NHS and through LGBTQ+ charities.
My professional experience has taught me that every human being has the potential for growth and healing, no matter what. With the space, commitment and compassion to accept who we truly are, life can begin to look and feel more hopeful, meaningful and understandable.
If you are neurodivergent (autism, ADHD, dyslexia +), trans, non-binary or have a non-normative gender experience (or have questions about your own relationship to these things) I can offer you a safe and open space to explore these things, or for it just to be a part of who you are.
You may be struggling with anxiety, depression, low mood, shame, family issues, childhood trauma, relationship challenges, low confidence or self esteem, self-sabotage, sex or love addiction and/or avoidance, emotional dysregulation, gender identity challenges, political/spiritual despair, existential anxiety or other challenges to your emotional or mental health. Working with a counsellor may bring you some relief through increasing your self awareness, making sense of your experiences and helping you to feel heard and less alone. I've got extensive experience in working with all of the above experiences and look forward to using that to help you thrive.
I work online or over the telephone in South Manchester.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- IMAGO Relationship Therapy Foundations
- IMAGO Relationship Therapy Clinical Skills 1
- Mental Health First Aid for Young People
- Emotional Freedom Technique Level 1
- Emotionally Focussed Therapy
- Pesso Boyden Technique
- Solution Focussed Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trans Inclusion
- Introduction to Trans Awareness
- Non-binary IdentitiesLGBT+ Awareness
- Creative Therapy
- Introduction to Art Therapy
- IFS with LGBT people
- IFS Masterclass with Frank Anderson
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I think therapy should be accessible. I keep my fees down by working remotely. Please be in touch to discuss further with me if you’d like to work together but will struggle with my hourly rate, and we can try to find something that works for both of us.
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Further information
I work in a gender-affirmative and neurodivergent-affirmative way. The affirmative approach to therapy takes the stance that you can't fix what ain't broke. I do not see autistic, ADHD, trans, queer or non-binary people as being in any way broken, and I see these things as expressions of human beauty and diversity. That being said, a lot of the time we can be made to feel less-than, broken, too-much, 'complicated' or even euphemistically 'special' by the world around us. Gender-Affirmative or Neurodivergent-Affirmative therapy works from the presumption that it is no healthier to be cis than to be trans, it is no healthier to be neurotypical than to be neurodivergent, and you don't need fixing. When we work in that way, it can really shed light on how much self-hatred and shame we carry, and we can begin to let it go. Slowly, you will build a new confidence based on these experiences of taking it for granted that you are the expert on being you.
