About me
So does your emotional suitcase feel too heavy to lift?
If it does, it may feel something like this:
- Overwhelming
- Relationships have become strained or are breaking down
- It has become difficult to voice what you need
- You feel depressed, anxious or that you have lost your way
When we feel like this everything tends to feel really heavy and sad. Communication may break down, our problems seem all jumbled up, or even that they are growing bigger and unmanageable by the day. Our past experiences may be nagging at us again, or it may be about something that is new and in the present.
So, you may need some help to:
- Unpack that case
- Sort through the contents
- Find clarity
We all have a drive to belong and relationships are important to us. Relationships can bring us happiness and fulfilment, but when things go wrong it can feel like everything is falling apart.
We can have relationships with everything and everyone, including ourselves. Life events, stress and even the way we think about ourselves can affect our relationships. Sometimes when these become difficult, break down, or we lose someone, we may feel confused, lost, angry, or sad. We may feel anxious or depressed and we may not understand our thoughts, feelings or behaviours.
Sometimes it may be very difficult to talk about this with family or friends for fear of being judged or a burden, or maybe we just don’t want to.
If any of this resonates with you, then you are in the right place…….
So what is counselling?
It is your time to work through what may be keeping you stuck, so that you can then move forward in the way you want to. Sometimes in our busy lives we don’t have the time to think, or to process anything, we are rushing from one thing to another. Maybe we have a demanding family or job, or maybe we just need a trained therapist to be with us becuase things may feel difficult to face alone. In counselling you will have this space, free from interruptions, to focus on you. It’s your time for self care.
So, if you have decided that counselling is something that you would like to try, you may be feeling very anxious about opening up to someone you don’t know. This is a big first step and if you haven’t had any counselling before it may feel really difficult. So, apart from looking for a counsellor who holds the right qualifications, it is important that you feel comfortable with them.
If you would like to read more about me, please head over to www.willowsidecounselling.co.uk, or give me a call and I will try to answer any questions you may have.
Jane
Training, qualifications & experience
My training was integrative to Foundation Degree Level, which means that I have studied a variety of counselling theories. I am an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling Society (NCS) and a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and I work to their ethical guidelines.
I have worked in bereavement, with people who feel lost, with relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, or just want to understand why they think, feel and behave the way that they do.
Continued professional development (CPD) is something that I am passionate about and I take up various training courses throughout the year, which builds on my existing knowledge. Other courses include couples therapy, Transactional Analysis (TA101), CBT, Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Mate).
Member organisations
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.

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.

National Counselling Society
The National Counselling Society
This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations.
In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership

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.


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.

Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Bereavement and Loss, Anxiety, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Communication.
Therapies offered
Fees
£40.00 per session for individuals.
£45.00 per session for couples.
Further information
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