Jo Shayler
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About me
So, can talking to someone help? ABSOLUTELY! Regardless of the reason, you might keep it in, talking has powerful psychological benefits that might not be obvious. Life can throw up many challenges and I am able to offer a safe, supportive, confidential environment for adults and young people to talk through and try and make sense of what they are finding difficult.
Sometimes, we can struggle to find the words to share our internal world or communicate our feelings. Using creative tools together can be useful to help identify and process what is happening.
What I offer as a counsellor is an opportunity to explore aspects of your personal life and to help with emotional difficulties that you may feel unable to share with friends or family. Working collaboratively will enable you to pursue significant life enhancing change and to rectify unhelpful patterns of living and relating. Feeling understood with empathy and care can often help you to access inner resources to cope with the demands and challenges of life.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Reveal and Heal was formed in 2017.
I incorporate a variety of theories into my counselling work these include, but not limited to:- Psychodynamic approach; I believe that psychological challenges in the present day are the result and influence of the unconscious mind with motivations stemming from past relationships and experiences.
Trauma Treatment, EMDR and Somatic based interventions. Transactional Analysis (TA). Attachment therapy. Creative work; Art therapy, image association, Russian Doll & Stone Placement enabling self exploration. - Registered member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP)
- Level 4 Dip in Therapeutic Counselling & Psycotherapy
- Level 3 Dip in Counselling Skills
- Certificate in Couples Counselling
- Certificate 'Trauma Treatment with EMDR, CBT & Somatic-based interventions'. Certified Clinical Trauma Professional.
- CPD Certificate ‘Relational Depth in Counselling & Psychotherapy’
- CPD Certificate ‘A Matter of Life & Death’
- CPD workshops ,‘Attachment behaviour in the counselling room’ . ‘Working with trauma’. ‘The mediated unconscious: Psychodynamic perspectives on counselling online’ . ‘Radicalisation and Extremism’
- CPD ‘Suicide prevention training’. ‘Staying safe online’
- Certificate ‘Law of attraction (Accredited) Practitioner’
- Certificate ‘Mindfulness Life coach & Mindfulness Blue print’
- BACP / OU online and telephone course/coronavirus primer
- Online Therapy Institute ‘Moving your practice online’
- 2019 –present volunteering as a Counsellor with an established charitable organisation
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
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 - £120.00
Free initial telephone or online session
Additional information
Individual Clients - I offer a free 30 minute initial consultation (Exc Soul card readings) where we get the chance to explore your needs and see if myself and my style is suited to you. Having a safe space to explore yourself can be an extremely cathartic and empowering experience.
Couples Therapy - I offer a free 30 minute initial consultation where you will both get the chance to explore the needs of your relationship and see if myself and my style is suited to you both.
If we decide to go ahead :-
Individuals are 50 minute sessions and cost £70
Couples are 1.5 hour sessions and costs £120
Sessions are payable 24 hours prior to any session commencing. If a cancellation is made with less than 24 hours of the booked session then a cancellation fee of full session costs will be payable.
Further information
I work in a comfortable and discreet location in Basingstoke and my practice is built around self-referrals and recommendations. Please note I can also offer wheelchair access.
