Lilian Abrahams
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About me
Hi. I am a qualified integrative psychotherapist and counsellor. I work with families, couples, individuals, and children. I have a wealth of experience, having worked within the mental health field for over 20 years with a range of clients with emotional difficulties. I have received lots of positive feedback from clients I have worked with.
I have experience working within the NHS in a secondary care setting offering long-term psychotherapy, and within a primary care setting offering short-term counselling, and also within CAMHS with families. Prior to psychotherapy and counselling, I worked in supported accommodation for adults with mental health problems.
I am passionate about helping children and families, couples and individuals with mild to severe issues connected with stress, communication, building self-esteem, burn-out, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, identity, relationships, eating disorder, trauma, loss and bereavement, addiction, EUPD/bipolar disorder, abuse, perinatal depression, postnatal depression, etc.
I work in collaboration, which means I involve my clients in all aspects and processes. We work together, we discover together, we learn together, so clients get to understand how they relate with themselves and with others. Working in collaboration also means negotiating and mutually agreeing on ways of working that are suitable for everyone involved with the process. I work in a relational and conversational manner and see myself as part of this therapeutic process and find it rewarding that I also learn about myself in this process. I provide a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space where my clients can explore their experiences whether individually or within the family.
As an integrative psychotherapist and counsellor, I draw ideas in my work from various therapeutic approaches: Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Jungian, Gestalt, Existential, Systemic, and some Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approaches. I incorporate the ideas that best suit the needs of the person in front of me.
I believe each individual is unique and different, rich with abilities, interests, race, culture, values, beliefs, experiences, spirituality etc. I tailor my work to suit the individual and their families.
For more information about my practice, please feel free to look at my website www.lilianabrahams.co.uk and contact me via email or telephone.
Training, qualifications & experience
- UKCP & MBACP Member
- PGCip Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling, Regent’s University London (Professional qualification for UKCP membership)
- MA Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling, Regent’s University London.
- PGDip Psychotherapy & Counselling, Regent’s University London.
- PGCert Psychotherapy & Counselling, Regent’s University London.
- PGDip Systemic Family Therapy, Tavistock & Portman.
- PGCert Systemic Family Therapy, Tavistock & Portman.
- BA Sociology, Middlesex University.
- BSc Sociology, University of Jos.
- CAMHS (Family Therapy)
- NHS (Long term Psychotherapy and short term counselling) - Ongoing
- Over 20 years experience working within the mental health field.
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
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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
£85.00 - £140.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Price varies based on individual, couples, family, online and in person sessions.
