About me
I work therapeutically with individuals and couples offering short and long term therapy.
Whether it is short term or long term therapy, I work with people who need help to understand and think through what might be happening in their present life (for example being in a relationship or being single, being a parent, coping with situations at work, coping with unemployment, coping with illness or bereavement).
Many different feelings bring individuals or couples to therapy. These feelings can be caused by a change in your life now or they may be from your past. The therapeutic relationship offers you a confidential and protected space in which you can talk through your thoughts and feelings, and an opportunity to develop different ways of dealing with them.
I am an accredited BPC Couple Psychotherapist and a BACP accredited Psychodynamic Counsellor. I am also a BPC accredited Dynamic Interpersonal Therapist. I have trained at the Tavistock Clinic, London, the Anna Freud Centre, London, Tavistock Relationships, London and the WPF. These are internationally renowned centres of excellence which have an international reputation for promoting emotional development. This means that I am qualified to work with you individually or as a couple in long term or short term counselling/psychotherapy and that I abide by the code of ethics in two accrediting bodies (BACP/BPC).
I am a Senior Visiting Clinician and Supervisor at Tavistock Relationships, London and I also work in a private practice in Bournemouth. If you decide to come for therapy, we can discuss whether you want to work for a time limited number of sessions or in a more open ended therapy. Sessions last 50 minutes and are at the same time each week. To arrange an appointment please call 07906 992641 or e-mail jb4counselling@gmail.com
I also offer supervision to practising and trainee counsellors/therapists. Please contact me on the above e-mail address/number if you are looking for supervision.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a senior accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an accredited member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). I work in private practice and I am also a clinical supervisor at Tavistock Relationships in London.
I have been learning and teaching about emotional life, relationships and the mind over a 30 year period. I worked as a senior lecturer at UEL which had close ties with the Tavistock Clinic where I also taught and studied. I liaised closely with clinicians in the NHS (at the Tavistock Clinic in London and at Southampton University) and have combined clinical and academic work. I have published in the areas of romantic love, reflexivity and mental health.
PhD: Love and its fluctuations: a psychosocial inquiry (UEL).
MA Working with Children, Young People and Families - Psychoanalytic Observation. Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London/UEL.
MA in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Tavistock Relationships, London/UEL (BPC accredited).
PG Course Counselling Aspects in Education, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, Anna Freud Centre, London (BPC accredited).
CBT Course The Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, Oxford.
WPF (BACP Accredited) Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, Southampton.
BA (Hons) Social Science.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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).
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