Jeanette Brazier
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About me
I'm a professional and registered counsellor with over 25 years of experience within private practice, the NHS, in prisons, women's refuge, The Priory Hospital and teaching counselling students in college.
I work with a wide range of issues such as bereavement and loss, relationship problems, low self esteem, anxiety, depression, sexuality issues, domestic violence, abuse, addiction, trauma and self development.
I work online with adults and young people from many different backgrounds. Sessions are available in-person in Newton Abbot and via video or telephone calls in other areas. People can struggle from every walk of life, anybody can experience problems and benefit from the right support.
During my time as a therapist I have worked extensively with survivors of trauma including childhood sexual abuse, those who grew up with emotionally and physically abusive or unavailable parents, people who have experienced domestic abuse, loss and bereavement, anxiety, depression, addictions and life transitions.
If you are finding you are triggered easily, perhaps feeling highly anxious in everyday situations or struggle with self doubt, overthinking and second-guessing your decisions, please get in touch. You are not alone. Healing is possible. If you are considering therapy it is likely something is bothering you and you are struggling to resolve it by yourself. This is always worth exploring.
Experience
- CRI, community drug and alcohol service - Psychosocial Intervention Practitioner.
- Extensive experience in private practice, working with a wide range of issues such as anxiety, trauma, low self esteem, relationships.
- Sessional therapist, facilitating group therapy for The Priory.
- Women's refuge, supporting families fleeing domestic abuse and delivering The Freedom Programme.
- NHS drug and alcohol service as a specialist counsellor.
- Facilitated anger management groups in the NHS.
- Facilitated anxiety management groups
- 25 years of experience.
You may know what you are struggling with, but sometimes it might just be a feeling that something isn't right and you need help to figure it all out, make sense of the past and how your thoughts and feelings are affecting you right now.
You don't need to suffer and struggle - help is available. My aim is to support you to feel able to address the difficulties that have brought you to seek therapy in a supported and caring environment, understanding how scary this can feel at first and to generate strategies and solutions that work with your values, beliefs and strengths.
I offer an initial free 30 minute consultation to give you the opportunity to meet me and ask any questions you may have and where we can decide if we want to work together. I offer both short term focused work and open ended work according to client need and wish.
I offer a flexible, respectful and calm space, using a variety of interventions, tailored to each person. I'm passionate about my work and strongly believe in our ability to make positive changes in the way we live our lives in order to experience greater fulfilment.
Getting started
I invite you to contact me for an initial FREE 30 minute consultation which we can do via telephone, video call or face to face, whichever you feel most comfortable with. In our initial conversation we can discuss how sessions would work between us, including any adjustments which may be helpful for you (some folks prefer dimmed lighting or a quieter time of day for example), and we can decide how best to proceed. I look forward to hearing from you; please feel free to email to arrange an initial chat.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Certificate in Counselling Theory and Practice
- Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling
- BA (Hons) Counselling (2:1)
- The Impact of Language on Meaning Making
- Safeguarding Training for Vulnerable Adults
- Access to Therapy for Older Adults
- Attachment - Development of Identity in Childhood
- Working with self harm and Suicidal Ideation
- Stabilisation in Complex Trauma
- Understanding Triggers, Flashbacks and Dissociation
- Surviving Sexual Abuse
- Working with Addiction
- Secondary Trauma
I began my training in 1999 with a diploma in humanistic counselling and during this time I was on a placement with a young persons counselling service, working with a variety of presenting issues.
In 2001, I began working for an NHS drug and alcohol service as a specialist counsellor, working with complex clients who often suffered from underlying mental health conditions and had experienced a high degree of neglect, trauma and abuse in their lives.
in 2010, I began working for CRI, community drug and alcohol service as a psychosocial intervention practitioner. I supported clients in 1-1 therapy alongside developing emotional well being groups such as anger and anxiety management and in 2012 spent a year in a male prison delivering a long term abstinence based programme for recovering addicts.
In 2013, I began working as a sessional therapist, facilitating group therapy for The Priory, working with patients on their addiction programme.
I have experience of teaching introduction to counselling courses and acting as a co-tutor on a diploma in counselling course. I have taken part in a pilot project in an immigration removal centre, providing psychological support for participants on an opiate withdrawal programme.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Divorce and separation
- Children flying the nest
- Lost confidence
- Low self esteem
- Trauma
- Self doubt
- Difficulty making a decision
- Relationship breakdown
- Finding purpose
- Neglect
- Underlying mental health conditions
- Anxiety management
- Anger management.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60
Concessions for the unemployed, refugees and low income families, also for student counsellors.
When I work
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I can offer daytime and evening appointments. Please contact me to arrange a mutually convenient time. Concessions available.
Further information
Please see my website at: www.jbcounselling.online
