This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hello I’m John, a fully qualified and accredited integrative counsellor working with adults in the South Hams. I understand the value of counselling and offer a warm, mature and down to earth perspective. Central to how I work is establishing a trusting relationship so that you feel safe and supported to engage with whatever is troubling you and work towards positive outcomes.
How Counselling can help:
- A safe time and place to talk to someone who won’t judge you
- Opportunity to make sense of what is troubling you and understand yourself better
- Help resolve complicated feelings/emotions or find ways to accept and live with them
- Help to recognise unhelpful patterns in the way you think and act and if you wish find ways to change these.
Counselling to me is about enabling my clients to develop a state of ‘compassionate curiosity’, in essence a desire to understand more about themselves, the world they inhabit and how they relate to it.
How I work
As an integrative counsellor, I believe each client is unique and there isn’t just one therapeutic approach that can help a client in all situations. My training enables me to use elements of different approaches to help you explore and cope with what is troubling you.
How we meet can also be tailored to your preference be it face to face in a counselling space, online via Zoom or walk and talk in nature.
Training, qualifications & experience
Level 3 Certificate in Counselling (NCS Accred)
Level 4 Advanced Diploma in Counselling (NCS Accred)
Certificate in Online Counselling and Telephone Counselling (NCS Accred)
Safeguarding children Level 3
Current DBS
Since completing my Level 4 I have worked in private practice as counsellor as well as through the Apricot Wellness service.
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations.
In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
£50.00 per session
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
In offer a free no obligation 30 minute session initially face to face, over the phone or online via Zoom
I also can offer concessions to students and people on low incomes, please message me for details.
