Jo George
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About me
Hello, I'm Jo, a UKCP-registered systemic and family psychotherapist who works with individuals, couples, groups or families. I have over 17 years of experience working with people from many different backgrounds on lots of different issues, whether that's about gaining personal insight, or self-confidence, relationship problems, anxiety, conflict, anger, grief, low mood or trauma or shame.
You may be struggling with something specifically in your relationships or life or noticing a long-standing struggle in your life and you want to make a change. I can help you:
- Get clarity on your relational wants and needs.
- Find personal insight.
- Work together to identify what's really going on where you might have been pushed to argue and fight in your relationship.
- Notice and understand old patterns that might be holding you or your family back.
- Think about your parenting style, discover your strengths, work together better as parents.
- Find new ways to communicate and connect when the old way sleave you upset or unfulfilled.
- Work through childhood trauma, or difficult experiences to support you in moving past the pain of the past.
- Support you to work through grief and loss.
- Encourage and embrace self-confidence, your inventiveness, imagination and mischievous self.
And much, much more...
As a systemic psychotherapist, I offer a lovely welcoming room with comfy chairs for you to be in or I can offer online sessions if you have limited availability or prefer working virtually. I think about problems being relational - that problems happen between people (or groups/organisations etc...) Rather than thinking about people as being problems. This helps me be non-blaming or judgmental and helps offer a respectful, compassionate way to work that's appreciative of strengths.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MA Systemic and Family Psychotherapy
- Advanced Certificate in Systemic Supervision, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
Other trainings...
Creative play and other activity ideas to help engage children and adolescents - Association of Family Therapy
Playing with Problems in Couple Therapy – Institute of Family Therapy
Healing and Repair in close relationships: An Attachment Narrative Approach – Association of Family Therapy
The Theory and Practice of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy – Association of Family Therapy
Listening and the Person of the Therapist - Association of Family Therapy
Therapeutic Letter Writing – Association of Family Therapy
Trauma Recovery Model – TRM Academy
Advanced Tree of Life training - Institute of Narrative Therapy
After the Affair: Rebuilding Relationships After Infidelity – College of Sexual & Relationship Therapists
Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity with Dr Meg-John Barker, WPF Therapy
Gender, Sexual & Relationship Diversity Conference - College of Sexual & Relationship Therapists
- Affirmative Exploration of Sexuality
- A Trauma-Sensitive Approach to Working Across Relationship Diversity
- Queer Relationships & Queer Therapy
Give Sorrow Words: Using Narrative Practices to Support Helpful Conversations About Death & Dying – Association of Family Therapy
Working Systemically with Family Violence: Risk, Responsibility and Collaboration with Dr Arlene Vertere & Jan Cooper
Lived Religion: Exploring Contemporary Challenges in Working with Muslim Clients – Institute of Family Therapy
Supervisory Practice:
Reflecting on power and intersectionality in supervision - Association of Family Therapy
Supervision as Relational Activisim - Association of Family Therapy
Re-thinking Resilience & Listening as Activism: ‘Justice Doing’ as a response to trauma - Isle of Wight Association of Family Therapy
Diploma in Systemic Leadership and Consulting Practice - The Systemic Development Partnership, EU
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £80.00
Additional information
My fees generally are £60 for a 50 minute session for individuals and £80 a session for couples/families.
I do have a limited number of concessionary spaces available so do contact me if affordability is an issue and we'll see if we can work something out.
Further information
If you're thinking about therapy, I'd love to work with you!
For more information about who I am, how I practice, to look at the room and how to find me etc.... Please do visit my website www.jogeorgetherapy.com
Or do get in touch for a free, no pressure to commit, 15 minute conversation.
