Joana Pancada
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About me
It can be really unsettling to deal with negative emotions by ourselves and to not know what we can do to help ourselves to feel better. I have been guiding clients for 16 years to achieve a resilient emotional stability and a more balanced sense of self-worth.
We can reach a point where negative thoughts become unbearable. Our emotions overwhelm us and become uncontrollable and we do not have the capacity to cope. Get in touch and we can make things better...
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Training, qualifications & experience
Joana Pancada holds a Master of Psychotherapy Research, specialising in Experiential Focusing, from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. This degree is recognised by the British Association of Counselors and Psychotherapists (BACP). She also holds a BA in person-centred counselling from the University of Brighton, England.
Joana has worked as a psychotherapist and led therapy groups in Brighton, London, Barcelona and Lisbon. She has designed and offered numerous personal development workshops, including “The Use of Self”, “Focusing, Here and Now,” “Nature as therapy,” “Focusing Your Body’s Knowledge”, "'Mindfulness", "How emotions work", "How to cope with shame and guilt", and "How do we create meaning."
Joana wrote a full therapeutic program for a private clinic and a DBT skills course that she still uses in her practice.
Her approach is practical and humanistic.
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £80.00
Additional information
Couples therapy £100 to £120.
