Lauren Tansel
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About me
With the right approach therapy can provide you with support and guide you along a path of positive change. I am deeply passionate about guiding people on their own unique healing journey with a primary focus on helping each individual to feel more empowered and live a better quality of life. I believe a trauma informed approach that works with the mind, body and nervous system increases our capacity for self-healing, aids in relieving symptoms of dysregulation and helps us step into more of our potential.
I am an integrative therapist meaning I draw from different therapeutic models adapting my approach to best meet your needs. This includes elements of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural therapy. I take a polyvagal informed approach, meaning I incorporate creating an awareness of how trauma, our early life experience and relationships with our caregivers shapes our developing nervous system impacting how we experience ourselves, others and the world.
I am also a qualified yoga teacher registered with Yoga Alliance Professionals UK. My personal experience of healing and inner work combined with professional training as both a therapist and a yoga teacher, has equipped me with the vital skills necessary to help assist others on their own journeys. I consider it a privilege to support others and I am profoundly passionate about guiding each and every person I work with.
Practice description
I offer a warm, supportive, and confidential space where you can explore any difficulties you are facing. I will listen with empathy and understanding while we explore issues together with the aim of enhancing a better quality of life. I aim to help you identify how your past conditioning is affecting you in the present and may be showing up in how you relate towards yourself and others. I intend to help you become aware of and befriend all parts of yourself, even the parts you feel adverse towards. With this awareness we can explore how you can start to transcend old patterns and learn new ways of being and responding that feels more authentic to you. We can also explore any self-limiting beliefs or beliefs you hold about the world and others which might be keeping you feeling stuck. I hope to assist you in understanding yourself on a deeper level, help you develop more self-acceptance and feel more empowered to create the changes you wish to make.
I do not believe that anyone is broken, but we may be feeling stuck in an autonomic nervous system state of survival (fight & flight, freeze or shutdown). I will help you develop an understanding of how the nervous system is wired from an evolutionally perspective for survival and guide you in mapping your nervous system states, understanding your triggers and in developing resources and tools for self-regulation. I intend to help you feel more empowered by befriending and understanding your nervous system and help you shape it towards safety and connection.
Training, qualifications & experience
Integrative Counselling Bachelors, Honours - University of East London
Rhythm of Regulation Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
The Vagus Nerve Program
Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills
Level 2 Certificate in Awareness of Mental Health Problems
Level 1 Award in Counselling Skills
300-hour Ashtanga and Vinyasa Yoga Training – Vinyasa Yoga Ashram
200-hour Ashtanga and Vinyasa Yoga Training – Vinyasa Yoga Ashram
200-hour Vinyasa and Hatha Online Yoga Teacher Training – House of Om
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Hypervigilance and feeling on edge
- Restlessness and irritability
- Emotional overwhelm
- Increased sensitivity to other people’s emotions and your environment
- People pleasing to the detriment of yourself
- Low self-worth
- Struggle with self-criticism and self-blame
- Feeling hopeless
- Feeling numb
- Addictive behaviours
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
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Further information
I offer individual therapy with adults on a one-to-one basis. Sessions are 50 minutes long and are available in person in Romford, Essex, online or on the phone.
First session
I appreciate how contacting and finding a suitable counsellor can be difficult. This is why I offer a free 20 minute telephone consultation giving you the opportunity to tell me a little about what is going on for you and to ask any questions you may have. Also, for you to get to know how I work and to see if I am the right counsellor for you. There is no obligation to book an appointment as choosing a counsellor that you feel comfortable with is important.
If we book a first session, I will send you a therapeutic contract and assessment to complete before our first session. In the first session we will talk about what brings you to counselling and how we will work together.
