Joanna Ogram
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About me
I am an Integrative person-centred counsellor offering a safe space for you to explore your experience, sharing at a pace that feels right for you. I work holistically and integrate with integrity which means I'm client led and able to respond to your therapeutic needs with a collaboration of therapy; A brief description is given further below.
I'm warm, compassionate, curious, creative, enquiring and non-judgmental. I hope for my clients to feel accepted, honoured and safe within our co-created relationship, allowing exploration and expression to gain a deeper understanding of self to help you with struggles you may be experiencing, supporting ebbs and flows and encouraging changes you may desire. Each therapeutic relationship is unique and I bring myself with an openess for you to have your therapy needs met.
You may be feeling anxious, depressed or confused. You may be experiencing loss. You may feel challenged with change, making changes. You may be finding it hard to find your passion, and experiencing low self-esteem. You may feel alone and not accepted. You may feel overwhelmed with feelings of fear, shame, and anger. You may feel an uneasiness with joy. Life can be stressful and you may find it difficult having a balance that suits you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Fdsc in Person-Centred Counselling
- Person-Centred Approach - Client agency to express and explore met with unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruence.
- Parts Work - Working with the different aspects of self within the whole.
- Focusing - Connecting with our felt sense.
- Integrative Practise - Breathwork.
- Trauma informed.
Being in nature can itself be beneficial, as well as working in beautiful therapy rooms, I offer walk and talk therapy by the sea or in the countryside close to Brighton.
Our experience will be different though I have personal experience of living with a hidden disability - a complex hearing impairment. To date, none of my clients has been aware of this as I hear very well in the right environment and it does not negatively impact my ability as a one-to-one counsellor.
Some of my experience includes working with clients needing help with -
Complex trauma, post-traumatic stress, relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, grief, violence, oppression, eating behaviours, intrusive thoughts, phobias, homelessness, addiction, low self-esteem, attention difficulty, stress, dissociative experiences, emotional distress, loneliness, parenting challenges, Change, unwanted behaviour, self-worth.
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
Additional information
Individual - £50 per 50 minutes
Low cost - £35 per 50 minutes (Keyworkers, Low income, Students) Limited availability, please enquire.
Further information
I offer a free 30 minute telephone or online consultation to see if I am the right counsellor for you. Please email to arrange.
Availability
Tuesday - Daytime
Wednesday - Daytime + Evening
Thursday - Daytime
Friday- Daytime + Fortnightly Evening
