Liz Walker

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Dip Couns, MBACP Registered
Available for new clients
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This professional is available for new clients.

Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, DY14
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

About me

Perhaps you're experiencing low self-esteem, anxiety or depression, relationship difficulties, bereavement or loss. We all go through times of emotional distress in our lives and sometimes these feelings can become too overwhelming or confusing to deal with on our own. That's when counselling can help.

The counselling service I offer is friendly, professional and down-to-earth. I provide an honest, non-judgemental, confidential space to listen to your thoughts and feelings and help you explore what's going on.

Counselling isn't about giving advice, it's about helping you to find your own answers. You will set the pace. Having the opportunity to talk honestly and openly about how you are really feeling can bring a great sense of relief and can clear the way for a new period of change and hope.

It's important for us to feel comfortable working together. I offer a free-of-charge 20-minute initial consultation during which I can answer any questions you may have, and we can then decide whether we think we'd like to work together.   If we agree to go ahead, we will discuss a mutually convenient day and time to meet, usually weekly, for one hour. Generally I work on an 'open ended' basis, but we will work with your goals and within a time frame that feels right for you.

Our work together will take place in a private room in my home. If you are unable to travel, then I may be able to meet with you in your home.  Alternatively, we can meet online via the videoconferencing platform 'Zoom'.

Please either phone (07983942593), text or send me an email (lizwalker.therapy@gmail.com) and we can arrange an initial chat.  If you are directed to my telephone answer service, I'm the only person who can access this so please do leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.  I won't return a missed call unless you leave a message asking me to do so.

Training, qualifications & experience

As well as private practice, I have over 10 years of experience in counselling children and adolescents with a wide range of issues in a school environment. I have also worked as a volunteer counsellor with North Worcestershire Bereavement Support since 2009, helping people come to terms with the loss of someone close.

Qualifications:

  • BACP certificate of proficiency
  • Diploma in therapeutic counselling level 4 (working with addictions)
  • Advanced diploma in counselling (working with trauma)
  • Advanced certificate in counselling  (transactional analysis & brief therapy)
  • Certificate in counselling skills

Training courses have included:

  • Anger management
  • Bereavement
  • Counselling the grieving client
  • Counselling the older client
  • Child protection awareness/safeguarding
  • Disorganised attachment
  • Eating disorders
  • Mindfulness
  • Self-harm
  • Suicide prevention
  • Teenage brain
  • Time-limited counselling
  • Working with clients with autism
  • Working with clients with dementia

Professional standards

As a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP), I adhere to their ethical framework.

I attend regular supervision to ensure that I am working ethically and in your best interests. I also attend regular training to broaden my knowledge, keep up to date with current thinking around counselling and to further my professional development.

I have professional indemnity insurance and an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) certificate.

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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).

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Fees

£40.00 per session

Additional information

  • Initial 20-minute 'no obligation' assessment free-of-charge.
  • 1 hour session £40.00 (pay as you go).
  • An additional charge will be made to cover my travelling expenses if you require a home visit.

24 hours' notice of cancellation is required please.

When I work

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night

Monday to Friday various times between 8am and 8pm.

Some weekends may be available.

Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, DY14

Type of session

In person
Online
Home visits

Types of client

Young people
Adults
Older adults
Employee Assistance Programme

Online platforms

Zoom
Liz Walker
Liz Walker