Dr Joanna Marsh
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About me
I offer counselling to individuals from age 18 upwards and couples. Sessions can be face-to-face, by telephone or video link. However sessions are delivered, they offer clients a safe and compassionate space in which they can explore their experiences in complete confidence and without judgement.
I have many years' experience of working as a BACP accredited counsellor in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. I have worked within the NHS (Berkshire Health Foundation Trust - Talking Therapies), other counselling services as well as operating my own private practice. Clients seek counselling for many different reasons including depression, anxiety, feeling empty or perhaps experiencing relationship problems. Counselling is a special space where a person can be listened to deeply, without judgement and experience a new level of understanding and growth. It is a healing process.
Following a career in Neuroscience research I went on to train as a Psychodynamic Counsellor at Reading University in 2008. Despite having worked with a huge variety and large numbers of clients over the years, I continue to learn something new from every single person I work with. A distinctive aspect of my practice is that I offer both short-term and longer-term therapy. I have found that progress can sometimes be surprisingly swift when people are offered a safe place to explore; enabling them to tap into previously undiscovered resources of strength and resilience within themselves.
Training, qualifications & experience
Private Counselling Practice: 2014 - Present
NHS Counsellor (including Talking Therapies): 2011 -2023
Riverside Counselling Service: 2011 -2014
Berkshire Counselling Centre: 2010-2013
BACP Accreditation: 2013 - Present
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling: University of Reading
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: Anna Freud Centre, London
Couple Therapy for Depression (CTFD): Tavistock Relationships, London
PhD Neuroscience: University of Bristol
BSc Pharmacology: University of Bristol
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
Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
- Individual: £60 per session
- Couple: £85 per session
Sessions are 50min
When I work
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Further information
I am flexible to work either on a fixed term basis: deciding on the number of sessions at the start of the work or to work open-ended with no ending planned until the client feels ready to finish the work.
Please feel free to ring and get a feel for conversing with me. I recommend you phone a few counsellors to help you decide on who feels right for you. I may not answer but will phone you back as soon as I have a suitable confidential space.
