Katherine Crook
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Are you feeling anxious, stressed or overwhelmed? Maybe experiencing heart palpitations or panic attacks? Are you either having trouble getting to sleep, or waking at 2/3/4am over-thinking, then struggling to get back to sleep?
You may be finding you are struggling to get out of bed and get on with the day. A lot of your thinking is negative, your relationships may not be as you want them to be and you may be struggling with low mood, or to enjoy your life.
You may know the things that self help books say you can do and have tried some of the techniques. You may even have had counselling before, found that it helped at the time but then you have found yourself back in a similar sort of place as before. If you are honest with yourself, you feel stuck and you want this sorted out.
Together we can work on; reducing your anxiety levels to normal pre-performance nerves, improving your sleep so that you feel rested and refreshed when you wake up in the morning. Figure out gaining control over any anger or frustration, and move out of depression/low mood into a positive, hopeful frame of mind. We'll find out what YOU really want and need to feel better.
I am passionate about helping people re-connect with themselves and make permanent, transformative changes to their anxiety and stress levels.
I do this by helping people gain new insights and awareness which they did not previously have. This involves recognising any triggers and patterns that are currently out of awareness, thinking about where they come from, reframing, and creating new responses, and patterns of behaviour.
So that you feel calmer, more in control, understand what you want to do about the issues you are facing and feel ready to take action. Once you are in action and doing things differently, this integrates the change and it feels so good that it's easy to keep going and it becomes permanent.
Then, when you wake up, you feel good about getting out of bed in the morning, you feel positive about the day ahead and you feel confident facing whatever the day may bring, whether that's a big work meeting, a day with the kids, a date, or a really challenging problem that needs tackling.
Whatever the issues you are facing, I recognise that everyone is unique. When you are with me, I will give you my full support and attention. I will provide a safe confidential space for you to express yourself. I work in a caring and respectful way, whilst also challenging you in a supportive way with different ways of thinking, suggestions and new ideas.
I will absolutely not tell you how to live your life. I work with an agreement between us about what you want to get out of your counselling. The purpose is to provide caring support, greater understanding of you and the issues you are facing and ultimately transformational change towards whatever you decide you want in your life.
I can help with:
- Anxiety and stress
- Panic and fear
- Depression/low mood
- Relationship issues
- Low self-esteem
- Anger frustration and rage
- Work related-stress & burnout
- Trauma (EMDR processing)
Next steps
I offer a free 20 minute call so I can answer any questions and we can talk about what counselling with me is like.
I'm an Accredited Integrative Counsellor, EMDR trained, and an Accredited Senior Coach Practitioner with 10 years of experience helping people who normally come to counselling because they recognise things cannot go on as they are and something has to change.
I am warm, welcoming, friendly and well-qualified. I offer open-ended counselling/coaching, tailored to suit you, as we all have unique needs.
After the initial nerves about stepping into counselling, clients often feel relieved to have a safe supportive space with me to come and talk through their thoughts and feelings. It’s a different kind of conversation than one you might have with friends, colleagues, or family.
Please feel free to contact me to book a free 20 minute call, to see if counselling with me is right for you, by clicking here to send me an email, or call me on 07854 139921.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Accredited Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
- Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling - This means I can tailor my approach to your particular needs.
- I integrate the person-centred approach with Gestalt and Transactional Analysis, as well as CBT and mindfulness.
- EMDR Europe trained practitioner
- Accredited Senior Coach Practitioner, registered with the European Coaching and Mentoring Council (EMCC)
- Post-graduate Advanced Diploma - Senior Practitioner in Coaching.
- Fully insured and DBS checked.
- I provide Anger Management programmes to groups or individuals.
Prior to becoming a counsellor I worked in large multi-national organisations in London, so like many of my clients I have experienced the pressures of working in demanding and stressful environments. I am also the mother of young twins so I understand the challenges of parenting and family life.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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
Fees
£80.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My rates are:
£80/50 minute session for individuals.
I do not work with couples.
When I work
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Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: 9am-2pm.
Please note that I do not work during the school holidays.
Further information
What happens in the 20 minute phone call?
I'll ask you to tell me a bit about why you are looking for counselling right now and what you think you would want to get from it. I'll give you an idea of how I would work on that with you and you can ask my any questions you like. If you wish to go ahead, we can book a first session in (usually the following week).
What happens in the first session?
I will take a history so I'll ask you some questions about your mental and physical health, your previous experience of counselling and more detail about how you are feeling now and what challenges you are facing. We will establish the goals of your counselling and talk about how we are going to work on these issues and goals together.
By the end of the first session, people are usually feeling calmer and more hopeful and have a clear idea of what we will be doing together and how the counselling can help, as well as taking away something for the immediate week ahead.
How do I get the most out of my counselling?
Research about what works in helping others shows that the relationship between the client and the helper, whether coach, trainer or counsellor is very important in determining a good outcome. Giving feedback as soon as you feel able and as honestly as you can about something that wasn't helpful, or equally something that you found helpful, enables your counsellor to understand you better and fine-tune their approach to you and helps build a strong relationship.
Reflecting on your sessions during the week and paying attention to your physical, emotional and social needs outside the sessions will help. As well as giving yourself a break and rewarding yourself for what you are doing.
