Julia Berthon
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About me
I am an experienced psychotherapist and counsellor working in a cosy place in central Newmarket, with dedicated parking and easy access. I see people wanting to make changes in their personal & professional lives. I am also a trauma & PTSD specialist.
Why consulting?
However long, therapy is a journey which starts with you feeling unwell or left with unresolved questions and seeking for some answers and improvements. You are welcome to contact me if you are experiencing any individual, identity, school or professional, family or couple difficulty you cannot manage on your own any more and including:
- Having current or longer term emotional, personal or relationship difficulties?
- Experienced a loss or a trauma?
- Needing some support and a space on your own during a challenging time?
- Wanting to understand yourself better?
‘Counselling’ and ‘Psychotherapy’ are often used interchangeably although counselling is generally more focused and shorter -typically 6-12 weeks- and therapy is more in-depth and longer term. Both are about changing through talking, where the therapist acts as a catalyst to bring this change about.
Whoever you are, you fully deserve the support you need. Sharing the story of your distress will help you make some positive changes because it is cathartic and healing that your testimony is witnessed, held and acknowledged by another.
Training, qualifications & experience
After a 10-year career as a lawyer, my passion for human potentialities led me to become a coach and a trainer on work-related and life issues. Then I qualified as a psychologist and psychodynamic psychotherapist.
- As a psychotherapist, I work integratively. I have dealt with a wide range of mental health issues from mild to complex.
- As a trauma & PTSD specialist, I work at different stages of the psychological trauma with issues such as historic and recent sexual abuse, terrorism, road accidents, domestic and physical violence, most of them coming along with grief and loss, relationship, dissociation and body issues.
- As a coach, I work with a solution-focused and person-centered approach. 13 years ago, I founded a charity supporting young people and students in their choice of studies and career, and training volunteer mentors of companies involved in aid programmes. During 7 years I also ran my own company specialising in HR support, professional assessment, the development of managerial skills and the prevention of psychosocial risk.
I currently work in mental health charities in Cambridge (CPSL Mind; The Cogwheel Trust CIO) and I practice privately with adults, young people, couples and families.
As part of a good practice I have undertaken my own personal therapy for a number of years. I update and widen my practice with ongoing continuing professional development and reflective practice through group, peer and individual supervision.
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
Fees
£50.00 - £100.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a discounted rate of £50 for your initial consultation (excluding organisations). I also have a small number of discounted places that can be negotiated
Individual session: £70 (50 minutes)
Organisation: £80 (50 minutes)
Couple session: £80 (50 minutes)
Family session: £100 (1 hour)
When I work
Face-to-face in Newmarket on Wednesday & Thursday / Online & telephone on demand
Further information
Professional affiliations
- BACP Registered Psychotherapist and Counsellor
- Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
Qualifications
- Certificate in Trauma Treatment (BPS approved)
- CBT modules (BPS approved)
- Training in Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Post-graduate Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotrauma
- Training in Family and Couple Therapy
- Training in Group Dynamics
- Post-graduate Certificate in Child Protection
- Professional Master’s Degree in Psychopathologies and psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Hons)
- Post-graduate Certificate in Coaching
- MA in Business and Intellectual Property Law
- And numerous short courses and CPD seminars
