Laura Evans
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About me
Sometimes it can be hard to find the answer or make a change on your own. Or perhaps it feels like there's no one there to listen to you. Reflecting with a trained professional can help you better understand yourself, and support you in making informed choices about your life.
Perhaps you're currently in crisis, or perhaps not. I firmly believe that you don’t need to be in crisis to come to therapy. It’s enough that something doesn’t feel right, or that you’d simply like to know yourself better.
I’ve worked with people who've sought counselling or psychotherapy for the following reasons:
- Anxiety and stress
- Depression
- Work-life balance and burnout
- Impostor syndrome
- Career change
- Mid and quarter life crisis
- Feeling lost or stuck, or an absence of purpose and meaning
- Sense of being empty, or not knowing who one truly is
- Low self-worth and confidence
- Creative blocks or feeling that one does not have permission to be creative
- Relationship and family challenges
I’m an integrative psychotherapist. This means that I’m able to draw upon principles from a range of approaches to psychotherapy, tailoring my approach to you and your needs. No one person is the same as the next; the therapy they receive shouldn’t be either.
Whatever the approach to therapy, it's widely acknowledged that the most important factor in helping people is the relationship between the therapist and the client. With this in mind, I provide a confidential, consistent, empathetic and non-judgmental space for you.
If you'd like to know more or book a session, you're very welcome to send me an email and take a look at my website.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained for five years at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education in Little Venice, London. I hold a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Dip Psych 2023) and a Certificate in the Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy (2017).
I’ve been working with clients since 2018: first as a trainee psychotherapist in a voluntary capacity and, from 2023, as a qualified psychotherapist.
I'm a full clinical psychotherapist member of the UKCP and a registered member of the BACP. This means that I am bound by the UKCP's code of ethics and the BACP's Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.
Before becoming a psychotherapist, I worked as a lawyer in a public institution and in private practice in the City of London.
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 UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. 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
Fees
£90.00 per session
Additional information
Our first session is an opportunity for me to learn about you and your reasons for seeking therapy, and for us both to see if we’re a good fit.
If we agree to continue working together, we'll meet once a week for a 50 minute session.
When I work
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