About me
I am a warm, intuitive and collaborative therapist, increasingly working with millennial and Gen Z clients helping them find a route through change and loss.
As a therapist, I specialise in helping client with:
- Life transitions and unexpected challenges: the upheaval and reassessment as the result of a change such as new parenthood, career change, redundancy, the challenge of aging parents, a major health diagnosis, or bereavement
- Loss of meaning or purpose: a sense that the life you were building no longer feels like it fits.
- The challenge of those working in the arts, creative industries and other talent-led fields: the pressure and loneliness of working within a creative organisation or as a freelance artist or writer.
My approach is attentive, calm and transparent, always led by you and your agenda as we unpack the difficulties you are facing. Ultimately, I see our working together as a robust, collaborative dialogue about your situation – a quest we’re on together, through the challenges you’re facing towards a more meaningful life.
By working in a warm, intuitive and collaborative way I help you to discover your own way forward and gain a fresh perspective.
Further details can be found on my website www.jonathan-humphreys.com, there is a link at the top of the page.
My private therapy room is at Archway Studios, London N19, within easy reach of Finsbury Park, Crouch End, Tufnell Park, Kentish Town and Gospel Oak.
In-person and online therapy in London and across the UK. My pronouns are he/him. I see people in-person in Dartmouth Park near Archway N19.
I see clients during the day Monday - Friday and do not offer evening appointments.
Getting started
A good working relationship is at the heart of successful therapy and a key indicator of a successful outcome. It is therefore important for you to find the right match, someone you feel comfortable talking to. I offer a free phone consultation to start the process, which can be booked directly my website or on Counselling Directory. Before this, I will send you a copy of my practice information document which has full practical details about the service I offer.
In the initial phone call I will be interested to know about:
- The issues that have led you to seek support now.
- Any previous experience you have had of counselling or therapy - what has or hasn't been helpful?
- What you are looking for from a counsellor and counselling sessions at this time.
- General questions about health & wellbeing and current support.
- You can ask me anything which is of importance to you in deciding whether you wish to proceed with me.
If after this initial conversation we both agree there is a good possibility that I can offer the support you need, I will suggest that we meet for a full initial session in which we can speak in more detail.
If I do not feel I am the right person to offer you counselling either after our phone call or the initial session I may offer suggestions for alternative referral information or recommendations.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have counselled young adults in further and higher education at a central London college as well as working at St Joseph's Hospice Hackney where I saw clients within the bereavement service for City and Hackney. In addition to my private practice, I have taught counselling at Capital City College Group in London.
I hold an FdA in Counselling from Middlesex University (BACP accredited course), and a previous degree from Central St Martins.
I came to train as a therapist following a successful twenty year career as a theatre director and CEO of an arts charity having come to realise that supporting and facilitating the growth of others was where I felt most at home, most effective and most fulfilled. I bring this wealth of life experience from my creative and professional work to my practice as a counsellor.
As a member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, registered member 400768) I am bound by a strict code of ethics to ensure my clients are kept safe.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Shame
- Therapy for Artists and Creatives
- Questions of meaning and purpose
- Major life transitions
- Young adults issues
- New parents
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
A limited number of concessionary spaces are available so please get in touch and I will do my best to accommodate you.
When I work
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I work Monday - Friday. I do not offer evening sessions.
Further information
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday in Archway
