Kara Bragg
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About me
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Hi, I offer both long and short term individual, relationship & couples counselling. I have experience across a broad range of issues & as a relationship & couples specialist I'm passionate about helping people resolve the relational problems they are experiencing.
I'm a qualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor & a member of BACP & ANZTAA. I also help businesses & individuals resolve psychological obstacles that cause work-related problems.
Taking the first bold step into therapy can be daunting, not knowing what to expect. I aim to create a safe space where my role is to help you understand the meaning & value of what you bring with empathy, non-judgement, validation, & challenge where appropriate. Using the therapeutic relationship I work with you to help you build awareness about unhelpful patterns & realise that you have the skills within you to make the changes you want. The direction & length of therapy will be for us to work out together, I am guided by what you want & need.
Bold souls taking bold steps of discovery together.
Why counselling/therapy?
People come to counselling & psychotherapy for many reasons. You may feel depressed, and anxious without fully understanding why. Equally, you may feel lost or trapped with no sense of direction, adrift in a sea of complex emotions & thoughts affecting your daily life. Counselling can help you navigate these feelings
Clients have said that talking to someone outside of their daily lives, who is objective, can help them make sense of their problems. Others have said that just talking is a relief, feeling the benefits of having a place to bring thoughts & feelings they don't feel comfortable talking about elsewhere. It is a private space to bring whatever is important to you.
Training, qualifications & experience
My experience
I have experience working with a wide range of issues including relationship issues - affairs and betrayal, intimacy and communication, anxiety, depression, change, bereavement, trauma, low self-esteem, stress & issues around belonging & identity. I also help businesses & individuals resolve psychological obstacles that cause work-related problems.
I've been a counsellor at London Charities gaining experience working with clients from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. Additionally, I have 25 years of experience working as a senior executive in the corporate sector.
Qualifications & memberships:
- Clinical Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy – ongoing (2018 – 2024)
- Fully insured and DBS checked
- UKCP – trainee member
- BACP – member
- UKATA - trainee member
- EATA & IARTA - member
- ANZTAA - member
Continuing Professional Development:
- Advanced Certificate in Relationship Training
- Certificate in Couples Therapy
- Certificate in Critical Incident Trauma
- 200hr Yoga Teacher Training / 30hr Yin Teacher Training
- Body Work: working with the unspoken & trauma in the body
- Self-Injury Support – Self-Injury Support Organisation
- Bullying in the Workplace – The Link Centre
- Mental Health Disorder – Metanoia Institute
- Developmental Trauma – Metanoia Institute
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
- Relationship / Couples Counselling
- Anxiety & Depression
- Work stress / redundancy
- Anger management
- Ill health or ill health of a loved one
- Loss including relationship breakdown, identity .. etc.
- Bereavement of a loved one or pet
- Difficulties in childhood/abuse
- Confusion about your direction or where to go next
- Difficulties managing feelings including anger, aggression, fear, worry & anger
Therapies offered
Fees
£90.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Availability & Fees
I offer an initial online consultation to give us the opportunity to discuss your difficulties, think together about how counselling might be able to support and help you, and see if we want to work together.
If you are a shift worker or simply an early riser, I also offer a limited number of online pre-9 am time slots.
Fees £90.00 for individual 50-minute sessions. Couples £110.00 per 50-minute session.
Please contact me for more information on availability and fees.
When I work
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Further information
Directions
Putney Rooms: A 5-minute walk from Putney Bridge Station to Hurlingham Studios, Ranelagh Gardens, Fulham, London.
Cavendish Square Rooms: 17 Cavendish Square is on the corner of Cavendish Square and Wigmore Street. It’s a large black door, which faces onto Cavendish Square, on the northwest corner, and the building is at the very end of Harley Street across the road.
Transport
Putney: Please message me on arrival and I will come to let you in.
Cavendish Square: Tube: Oxford Street and Bond Street are a 5-minute walk from 17 Cavendish Square. Parking: Q Park Oxford Street is the closest car park, and the Harley Street pedestrian exit of the car park is a 30-second walk from 17 Cavendish Square.
Client Arrival
Cavendish Square: Clients coming within receptionist hours should follow instructions on the door and press the (8) button and the (C) button which will ring through to the receptionist who will let you in.
Clients will be welcome to wait while the receptionist will call the therapist on the phone in the room.
