Laura Dixon
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About me
I am a counsellor, supervisor and coach with extensive experience providing both long term and time-limited therapy in the NHS, charity sector, and private practice.
I understand that life isn’t always straightforward, and distressing events - whether recent or from your past - can impact on your quality of life and leave you feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Therapy can enhance your understanding of yourself, and improve your communication as well as your relationship with yourself and others.
How I work
My area of expertise is loss, and helping clients deal with it in all its forms, which includes bereavement, job loss, relationship breakdowns, loss of sense of self (which includes depression, anxiety, chronic illness, disability or medical / healthcare diagnosis) and all of the many other life changes that may happen outside of your control. I am a specialist loss counsellor and supervisor working with a social enterprise contracted to Salford NHS Trust and have worked for a leading bereavement charity for many years as both a trainer and supervisor. I approach all counselling relationships in a trauma-informed way, and am able to support you with a wide range of issues, whether it be anxiety, depression, low self esteem and self worth, guilt, shame, anger or any other presenting psychological challenges you might be facing.
I can offer you a welcoming, confidential space to explore your current situation and the impact it's having on you, and together we can work to facilitate any desired changes and develop techniques to manage any ongoing issues. I am an accredited integrative counsellor, which means rather than working with you through the lens of one psychotherapeutic approach and I am able to utilise a wide range of tools, modalities and techniques that can be tailored to meet your individual, unique circumstances.
I believe therapy is a very personal experience, and it is important that we are able to build a trusting therapeutic alliance together in order to maximise the potential benefits that you can gain from therapy. Therefore, in order to help you decide if we are a good fit, I offer an initial, free, no-obligation consultation, to give you the opportunity to explore what working together would be like.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling Practice (Prof Dip PSY C)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Helping Relationships (PG CERT)
- Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Ad Dip PC)
- Diploma in Counselling Skills and Theory (Dip CST)
- Certificate in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills (Cert Hyp CS)
- ILM Coaching and Mentoring
- Transactional Analysis 101 (UKATA)
- Bereavement Support Foundation course
- Cruse Bereavement Care
- BA Psychology (The University of Manchester)
Member organisations
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 - £75.00
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free no obligation consultation for you to better understand how we could work together.
If you would like to learn more about working together please get in touch
I also offer low cost sessions to students and people on low or means tested income.
Further information
I can offer in person or online counselling, as well as therapy outdoors in nature. I can offer a variety of times to suit your schedule and work internationally.
