Jasmine Reavley
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This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hi and welcome to Ojas Counselling. First thing to know is I am a natural encourager, I want to see you make the changes that you're looking for. I will work with you to explore, understand and maybe make some fresh choices.
I am relaxed and able to hold a safe space for you to bring your issues. I am openminded, empathic and skilled at relating, letting you be you.
I take wisdom from nature and philosophical traditions, both East and West. You may want to have goals or you may not, but you will lead the sessions. I do not have a list of questions that have to be answered, each client is wholly unique. There might be work around deconditioning/learning from the past or looking at ways to relieve fears for the future. I have lots of ideas, exercises and techniques to make your counselling journey enjoyable, relaxing and also challenging for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
My method of counselling provides the honesty and openness which allows you to find trust in yourself and begin to live with greater awareness and happiness. I focus principally on the present and the future whilst recognising the influence the past has on you. I am continually learning and experience major themes around deconstructing conditioned learning and embracing your true self.
I have been working with people's wellbeing for 20 years, as a community mediator, a mental health worker and a tai chi teacher. I have been studying psychology since my degree in 1995, then at Edinburgh University, achieving my counselling diploma with Interface in 2018. It has been a long and rich journey for me and I have the empathy and compassion to make a space where you can feel psychological safe and held.
In 2021 I trained with ACT Counselling for the COSCA accredited Diploma in Clinical Supervision.
I will always be guided by the direction you want to go in, not by a prescribed set of questions or techniques which must be followed. You are the expert in yourself and you have the capacity to make whatever change is going to serve you best.
Member organisations
COSCA is the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, and seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills by promoting best practice and through the delivery of a range of sustainable services. COSCA Counsellor Accreditation is a pathway to entry onto the UKRC. It is a requirement of all individual and organisational members of COSCA to abide by its Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice and be accountable to the Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I work sensitively around individuality and self-esteem in the workplace.
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 - £75.00
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Standard fee for 50 minutes counselling is £45. If you're able to pay above the minimum this allows me to keep £45 to enable people on lower incomes to still access the service.
When I work
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I work between 10am and 6pm on Thursday and Friday.
Further information
I have the necessary skill set to make positive change in your life. Counselling is much more than a chat and passive learning, it is a space where you build, take risks and open up to get you to a place of greater contentment.
Ojas means essence of life, we have a finite amount of energy and time, so how we use these really does sculpt our lives. I am in your corner and will support and explore how you want things to be and the steps to get there.
