Kate Nicholls
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About me
I'm Kate Nicholls, offering face-to-face, psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy in West Sussex.
Perhaps you find yourself here because your anxiety and depression is affecting your everyday life; you're tired of the daily struggles you face and you want something to change. Maybe you recognise that you are driven to repeat patterns of behaviour that cause you distress and pain in relationships. Perhaps you've had a sense for a while that something isn't quite right, a voice inside stopping you from living a happy and fulfilling life; you’re curious to see if therapy could help.
Our current thoughts and feelings - how we experience ourselves and others today -are always affected by what went before, often stemming from childhood. Our reactions to friends and family, along with our internal emotions and thought processes, are strongly based on how family members responded to us back then.
Working psychodynamically together, your therapeutic journey will bring unconscious feelings into consciousness, as we work through previously unknown thoughts and feelings, trauma, rejections and losses, allowing a more authentic, secure self to emerge.
My Experience
I have extensive experience of working with clients from different backgrounds, with a range of emotional difficulties.
The Setting
My consulting room is a safe, quiet, confidential space.
Fees
Initial Assessment Fee £65
50 minute therapy fee from £65 (Occasional concessions are available, we can discuss together)
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (Distinction) from the University of London along with a BSc in Psychology.
I have extensive experience of working with a range of emotional difficulties including anxiety, depression and bereavement.
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.
The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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I offer flexible session times on weekdays between 8am and 8pm.
We will meet weekly at my private consulting room on the west side of Worthing, or online.
Further information
I offer flexible session times on weekdays between 8am and 9pm.
We will meet weekly, for 50 minutes, at my private consulting room on the west side of Worthing, a ten-minute walk from Worthing Town Centre.
I am also available for weekly online sessions.
