Leonie Holmes
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Welcome! I am a fully accredited Colchester-based counsellor who works sensitively with adults struggling with the aftermath of childhood trauma and complex family relationships.
In particular, I have extensive experience of working with Adults coping with the challenges of ADHD in later life, and the trauma that often goes alongside.
I also bring a lived experience of ADHD to my work and understand all the unique challenges it brings.
Have you reached a point where you sense you can’t carry on feeling this way? Maybe it’s a recent breakup, ADHD diagnosis, or a build-up of feelings that’s just become too much to cope with on your own.
Perhaps you are carrying a silent pain that you wish the people around you could see.
Maybe you are tired of not feeling understood by those closest to you. I wonder if you have lost your trust in others, and reaching out for help often feels impossible.
You are really not alone, and I would like to help, your feelings do matter.
You deserve to begin the journey to feeling more at peace.
I listen, empathize, and gently try to understand what it feels like to be you. I will help you to explore your issues but never push you to talk about things that you are not ready for.
My approach is integrative, and trauma-informed, which essentially means that I work from a toolbox of therapy techniques. This allows us to go at your pace and use the appropriate approaches for you and your unique personality.
I am a warm, relatable person and my style of therapy is collaborative and gently challenging so I won’t just sit there in silence! There might even be a sprinkling of humour thrown in when appropriate.
I remember what it was once like to be a client myself, so am aware of how nervous you might be.
Above all I have a deep respect for you and your journey.
If you think you would like therapy with me, then please send a text, email or give me a call. I understand committing to therapy takes courage, so I offer a free 15 min phone consultation in which you can give me a brief outline of why you would like counselling and ask any questions that you might have.
Note: Accreditation "means that I have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the BACP."
Training, qualifications & experience
BACP Accredited Diploma in Therapeutic (Integrative) Counselling
Certificate in Counselling Skills & Theory
Additional CPD
- Online counselling best practice
- Dialectical behaviour therapy ( DBT)
- Working with PTSD
- Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder
- Working with sexual abuse
- Trauma and the body
- Mindfulness
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Narcissistic Relationships
I currently run a private practice at The Colchester Business Centre in which I counsel adults only. I also provide telephone and video counselling (please see my website) in addition to my in-person work.
Previously worked on the team at The Life-Force Centre in Colchester counselling adults.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Childhood Trauma
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£80 an hour for in-person, telephone and video
I currently have daytime availability from 10am-4pm on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the Colchester Business Centre
When I work
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Further information
Counselling sessions can be a safe and consistent space to safely explore your feelings with me every week, when life feels really confusing and inconsistent.
The sessions will take place in a lovely private peaceful room at The Colchester Business Centre. The site has free parking, a quiet waiting area and excellent disability access.
The therapy will take place at the same day and time each week.
