Kate Dyer
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About me
Sometimes the challenges we face in life can leave us feeling overwhelmed, isolated or stuck. This can interfere with our daily lives leading to difficulties such as anxiety, depression and relationship problems. Seeking support through counselling can be the first step in making sense of our difficulties through a relationship that allows you to feel truly heard, valued and supported. My aim is to provide a warm, confidential space, free of judgement, where we can explore what is happening for you right now and support you to make a positive difference to your wellbeing.
As an integrative counsellor, I combine humanistic and psychodynamic perspectives to tailor therapy to your individual benefit. With several years experience in practice, I work from a relational approach, understanding that often the emotional difficulties we face have their origins in our earliest experience of relationships and continue to be problematic throughout life, behind difficulties including poor self-esteem, anxiety and low mood. Through my commitment to working with compassion, acceptance and trust, I aim to offer a therapeutic relationship with you that can offer insight and awareness, allowing you the opportunity to make changes to past patterns, leading to a fulfilling future and greater wellbeing.
Life can be really hard sometimes and talking to friends and family isn't always an option, while struggling alone seems unbearable. Whatever your difficulty I am here to listen. I offer a safe and welcoming space for you to openly share what you are experiencing, helping you process the thoughts and feelings behind your difficulty.
Training, qualifications & experience
Professional Qualifications
BA-Hons in integrative-relational counselling - First class
Restorative approach practitioner
certificate in counselling skills level 3
certificate in counselling skills level 2
Continuous Professional Development
The effects of trauma on children's brain development
Walk and talk therapy
Person centred experiential counselling for depression
Existential Courage
Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and dissociation
Going online in times of crisis
Dealing with distress: Suicide and Self Harm
Negotiating enduring trauma
Trauma and major incidents
Emotional dysregulation
The effects of trauma on children's brain development
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
£60 per session. I am glad to speak on the phone before booking an initial session
I also offer a limited number of spaces at concessionary rates
When I work
My current availability is for online sessions and walk and talk therapy
