Lee Thomson
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I have 20 years experience working as a mental health professional within the charity sector and the NHS.
My therapy practice offers a safe, confidential and empathic setting in which to identify, explore and work through issues that may be affecting your life. I am committed to offering thoughtful, non-judgmental psychotherapy and welcome clients from all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.
My approach is psychodynamic and relational and I believe that each person is unique in the way that they experience life with its dilemmas, conflicts, traumas, contradictory feelings, desires, hopes and aspirations. My therapeutic approach focuses on the client and to help find a way of developing understandings of their inner-world to help provide purpose and meaning in finding a way forward.
My practice is flexible. I offer long-term face-to-face work, short-term face-to-face work, online sessions (via Zoom or Skype) and telephone counselling. The first step is to email or telephone to arrange an initial meeting which will provide an opportunity for us to meet and explore whether you might find therapy helpful. If you decide you would like to continue then we would arrange a regular day and time to meet. Sessions last for 50 minutes.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Theory and Practice, University of Roehampton, 2018.
- Certificate in Counselling Skills, WPF Therapy, London, 2014.
I have also completed further workshops and training on:
Gender Identities & Sexual Orientations
Trauma
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex PTSD
Addiction
Loss and grief
Anxiety
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
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
Fees
£65.00 - £85.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
The initial consultation will last 50 minutes.
This gives us time to get to know one another and for you to decide if you would like to begin therapy with me.
Fees for ongoing sessions can be negotiated during this first meeting.
When I work
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I currently have availability in my practice for daytime and evening sessions and can be flexible around timings.
Further information
Fees can be negotiated for ongoing work during our initial meeting.
