Jo Reeves

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Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

About me

Welcome! - It is so hard taking the first steps to find a therapist but you've done it! I offer an initial phone/zoom call where we can talk and decide if we are right for each other. 

I offer a warm, caring, non-judgemental space where listening, hearing your story and providing a place of reflection, will be at the core of our work together.  In a co-creative way, we will find a space where you feel safe, respected and heard – a space where awareness, understanding and compassion can grow and change will begin to feel possible.

My main working style is from a 'Relational' and integrative perspective. The starting point of 'I'm OK - you're OK is central to my work and underpins a supportive and trusting environment that helps your wisdom to be heard and healing to begin.

I also offer Brainspotting as a tool to enable emotional processing that is very powerful and effective for trauma work and general 'stuckness'.

My career began as a family lawyer and then moved into teaching/mentoring adolescents and then into my current work as a therapist. I am also an adoptive parent. My journey into the therapy world began through wanting to understand myself at a deeper level and I loved how personal therapy opened doors to new ways of being. I began training in psychotherapy and after 5 years of study, practice and volunteering at a local Hospice and with MIND, I gained the UKATA Diploma in Transactional Analysis. My time working with anxiety, depression, grief, bereavement and loss has shown me the importance of therapy in providing a safe space where we can be listened to and really heard. These important factors then help us process our emotions and begin to find new ways of seeing and being.

In addition to my private practice, I have volunteered at MIND and run bereavement groups for a local Hospice. I also have undertaken an ACTO approved course for working online professionally and safely.

I work with adults, adolescents between 15-18 and couples.

Please contact me by email for a free initial phone/zoom call. I offer online, zoom and, possibly, some walk and talk sessions locally in the Ashdown Forest.

My current fees are £55 per session. Some concessions may be available.

Training, qualifications & experience

UKATA Diploma in Transactional Analysis

Brain Spotting P2

Various Course Certification in: Couples Counselling; Anxiety; bereavement; depression; Trauma, attachment; general mental health and working with young people.

Safeguarding L3

LLB & LLM (Dist.)

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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.

UKATA
UK Association for Transactional Analysis (UKATA)

UKATA (formally the Institute of Transactional Analysis) is the national UK Transactional Analysis organisation representing all fields of TA theory and practice. TA can be used as an effective tool in a wide range of contexts such as: personal development, management, coaching, counselling, psychotherapy, teaching, education, parenting and more.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Couples Counselling

Brain spotting

Fees

£55.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session

Additional information

My current fees are £55 per session.

When I work

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Afternoon
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Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone

Types of client

Young people
Adults
Older Adults
Couples

Key details

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Online platforms

Skype
Whatsapp
Zoom