Julie Cole
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This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Taking that first step to seek counselling is an important one and can be daunting. I offer face to face and online appointments for both counselling and supervision.
Where do you start?
I could throw in lots of theoretical jargon and qualifications here, but that might not mean very much to you.
So how do you choose your Counsellor?
Of course you want your Counsellor to have undergone reputable training and to be qualified but you also need to feel that this is someone you can trust and feel safe with. Counselling is different things to different people. Sometimes it is a space to offload, sometimes it may be a place where you can explore and make sense of things that have happened, and sometimes it may be where your long-held beliefs might need to be challenged.
Friends and family may be supportive, but they will often have an unconscious bias and want to ‘fix’ things. The counselling relationship is unique. As your Counsellor I do not have an agenda and will support you through rocky times as you navigate your way to a deeper understanding of yourself and your experiences. Understanding the past and present so that you do not carry your problems into the future.
Working collaboratively with my clients, I treat everyone with respect, warmth and honesty, that I believe we are all entitled to.
Training, qualifications & experience
BA (hons) Counselling
Diploma in Counselling supervision
Member organisations
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £90.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Further information
I currently have spaces for new Supervisees
