About me
Hello, my name is Lisa and I run Hopfield Counselling.
I am a BACP Accredited Integrative Therapist which means that I work in a way that is individual to you, not in a prescriptive, pre-meditated way but in a way that lets me utilise my skills and experience to work with you to face life challenges. I am able to offer face to face and on-line therapy.
Having someone impartial to really listen and walk in your world with you can give you the space and time to get some perspective and understanding. It can provide you with the time to investigate what is troubling your life at the moment and assist you to look for new ways to manage those difficulties. As counselling is not a directive process we work together to find new ways of coping and make life changes.
As well as individual sessions I also offer couples therapy, looking at what is happening within a relationship, establishing what difficulties may be present, providing both people in the relationship with the chance to communicate and be heard in a non-judgemental and safe environment.
I am proud to work as a counsellor in the charitable sector. I work for The Matthew Hackney Foundation which is a local charity providing counselling services to local primary and secondary schools. I also recruit and supervise the therapists working for the charity.
I am also privileged to also work as a Counsellor for Woking & Sam Beare Hospice where I am a therapist for families of the bereaved, patients and those facing bereavement. I also run the bereavement groups for children aged 5 to 18 years for the Hospice.
As an added level of speciality I have undertaken training in understanding Menopause and how it impacts a woman’s life and am a qualified Menopause Well-being practitioner.
I work from a garden room in Byfleet and have free on-street parking, It is easily accessible from Woking, Weybridge, Addlestone, New Haw, West Byfleet and is within a 15-20 minute walk of both West Byfleet and Byfleet and New Haw railway stations.
I hold a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Supervision and am able to offer support as a supervisor.
As an accredited therapist I am also able to offer counselling to students undertaking their counselling qualifications and offer discounted rates for this.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a BA Hons in Counselling and an FdSc in Integrative Counselling.
I am a registered and Accredited member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP)
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Supervision.
Hypnosis for Psychotherapist from National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
CACHE Level 2 in Understanding Autism
Menopause Wellbeing Practitioner
Menopause Wellbeing Practitioner Diploma
I work with a variety of issues including anxiety, bereavement, stress, life changes, depression, life limiting illness and anger as well as menopause.
I have extensive experience of volunteering and working for a local Hospice offering bereavement counselling to adults and children.
I also work as a counsellor and supervisor for the Matthew Hackney Foundation. The foundation is a local charity who offer counselling in primary and secondary schools across the local area.
In addition to my degree I have also attended courses in:
- Working with Suicide
- Attachment and Wellbeing
- Working Creatively
- Self Harm
- Working with Couples
- Trauma and Attachment
- The Process of Dying
- Sexual Abuse and Trauma
- Trauma and Dissociation
- Mindfulness
- Working With Trauma
- Gestalt - Two Chairs, Two Approaches
- Family scripts
- Affective Neuroscience
- Working With Shame
- Working With Dissociative Disorders
- Dreams
- Working with Eating Disorders
- Understanding Narcissim
- Life Coaching
- Diploma in Menopause Well-being Coaching
Children Specific Courses:
- Sexual Abuse and Trauma
- Advanced Communication and Understanding Children
- Building Resilience in Children
- Managing Children’s Behaviour
- Life Story Work
- Ensuring Safer Care
- Safeguarding Children
- Working with Children in Grief
- Teach the Teacher - How to work with bereaved children
- Attachment, Trauma and Relationships
- Development Trauma and Attachment
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Awareness
- Connecting With Children Using Pace
- Working Together to Support Children in Schools
- CACHE Level 2 in Understanding Autism
- Caring for and safeguarding trafficked children
- Child sexual abuse & trauma responses
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
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
£70 for one to one or on-line sessions of 60 minutes.
£100 for couples sessions of 90 minutes.
Counselling Student discounts are available at £60 per session.
Supervision - £70 for individual sessions of 1 hour. Group sessions also available.
Some concessions appointments available for low income families & NHS workers. These are limited so please ask.
When I work
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Further information
I offer face to face, on-line and telephone counselling.
Payment can be accepted via cash or BACS.
