Joanna Parkinson
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About me
My approach helps clients gain insight, facilitating change where necessary. Therapy offers clients a chance to engage with their emotions, reflect on their relationships and look at how they are living their lives. I have worked with anxiety, bereavement, identity crisis, gender dysphoria, and relationship issues amongst many other existential crises that most of us experience at some point in our life.
I offer warm, caring, respectful and an honest attitude to therapy. My approach is in the form of dialogue, where we won't necessarily seek the solution but rather seek the truth. A therapeutic relationship is built on mutual trust and facilitates a safe and confidential space which will allow us to explore your existential crisis together.
Training, qualifications & experience
Certificate in Psychotherapy, Counselling and Coaching (NSPC)
Certificate in Existential Coaching (NSPC)
BSc (Hons) in Psychology (Middlesex University)
PGDip in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Middlesex University & NSPC)
Registered Member of the BACP
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
£80.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fee is £80 per session for individual therapy and £120 for couples therapy.
I offer a limited number of concessionary spaces for certain circumstances from £60 per session - please contact me for availability.
I offer sessions in person and online through Zoom. Currently I have spaces for online therapy.
When I work
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Further information
Our first session will cover an initial assessment, where we will explore your expectations and needs and discuss any questions you may have about the way I work with my clients. This is an opportunity for us to see how we will work together and if I am the right therapist for you. After this, we can commit to a further 6-12 sessions if you have a specific issue you want to work on, or longer open-ended work if appropriate.
