Jenny Harknett
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About me
About me
- I am a qualified, Registered, Accredited BACP counsellor and have been practising since 2010. I have a breadth and depth of experience gained from several years of consistent work in the public, charitable and voluntary sectors. I have been in private practice since 2017.
How I Work
- I offer warmth, sensitivity, integrity and acceptance to my clients. As the client, your best interests are at the heart of the counselling and will guide how we work together. I have had considerable success helping clients with a wide range of issues; including depression, anxiety, bereavement and relationship problems. I have great experience working with diversity. I work in an open, collaborative, professional way; abiding by the BACP's Ethical Code of Conduct.
- Face to face and online counselling available (Skype, Google Meet, Whatsapp video call).
What to Expect in Your First Session
- Should you contact me, I would offer you a free 20 min - 30 min phone call to discuss your needs; we would then arrange to meet for an initial session.
Working Hours
- I am able to offer face to face counselling on Sundays (all day) and Mondays from 3:30 pm.
- I can be more flexible for online sessions; although my days off are Friday and Saturday.
Practice Location
- I work from a first floor room in Stony Stratford High Street. There is ample free parking, either on the High Street itself or in one of several long or short term (2 hours) car parks. There are also plenty of buses covering the Milton Keynes area which stop at the top end of the High Street.
Training, qualifications & experience
- I am a qualified, registered, accredited BACP counsellor and have been practising since 2009.
- An accredited counsellor means that the BACP has deemed that my practice meets their higher standard as a competent, ethical and independent practitioner.
- I have a level 5 Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and am committed to continuing professional development in order to broaden my skills and enhance my practice. I am educated to degree level - MA (Hons) History, 1990 - and found my way to counselling in my late thirties. In training, I counselled refugees, most of whom had suffered severe loss, trauma & violence. I also volunteered for a NHS bereavement service and for a local charity supporting young people's mental health.
Between 2011 and 2017, I counselled part-time for a charity supporting young people's sexual and emotional health. From 2014 to 2019 I worked as a secondary school counsellor.
As well as my own private practice, I am the Counselling Manager for 'YiS Young People's Mental health' - a local charity providing free counselling for young people in Milton Keynes. I also work with the 'Victims First Specialist Counselling Service' to provide therapeutic interventions to victims of crime across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
- If you have been a victim of crime and require support you can contact Victims First on 0300 1234 148 or by visiting www.victims-first.org.uk.
Member organisations
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 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
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 - £70.00
Additional information
My fees are:
Individual counselling: £50 for a 50 minute session.
Couples counselling: £70 for a 60 minute fortnightly session.
When I work
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Available hours:
Monday and Thursday - Face to face. Afternoon and evening.
Tuesday and Wednesday - Online. Afternoon and evening.
Sunday - Face to face. Morning and afternoon.
