About me
Hi, I'm Lianne and counselling sessions with me will feel like a collaboration. We will work together to explore what is going on for you and how it is affecting your daily life. As a person-centred counsellor, I offer a space and safe environment where you can off load things that may be troubling you. We will explore your feelings and emotions and start to peel back the layers to find the source of any worries or concerns. We will look at the issues that are affecting you and I will help you to examine them to find patterns and themes which might enable you to understand yourself better. I create space for you to feel accepted, to feel empathy and compassion and I will reflect back what I hear and understand of you and your experiences.
Starting counselling for the first time or with a new counsellor, can be daunting, but I hope to ease some of those feelings by being open and honest with you about what to expect. If I think I might not be quite the right fit for you, or there is someone or something else that feels more appropriate for you, I will not hesitate to tell you. Our relationship will play a large part in your process so we aim to be as congruent and honest with each other as possible and I will encourage you to communicate with me without fear of judgement but with confidence in the knowledge that I am here to listen.
Training, qualifications & experience
I studied at DSCounsellingTraining, now Orchard Counselling Training. I have a diploma in therapeutic counselling and am a registered, fully qualified and insured person centred counsellor. I have experience with a wide variety of issues and age groups. I work with both young adults and older people, in person and remotely. In addition to my private practice, I work at Babons Cancer Support in Tonbridge and I volunteer at North Kent College. I have been a full listening volunteer with Samaritans for six years.
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
£60.00 per session
Further information
I have a background in the arts and am familiar with issues such as performance anxiety and the stresses and challenges of working in an artistic field.
