Lizzie Venter
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About me
Beginning the process of speaking to a professional counsellor, can bring many benefits, such as helping you understand and manage difficult emotions. This can increase confidence and have a positive effect on your personal, social and professional relationships. Counselling can also be the space you need when adjusting after a bereavement or trauma and help find future direction and rebuild a sense of meaning and purpose.
I am an experienced, Accredited Counsellor and Supervisor and have worked with adults and adolescents in Private Practice and in a number of secondary schools. I offer both long-term and short-term sessions. I use an Integrative Counselling approach, which means I tailor the counselling to use methods which are most relevant and suited to you. For example, we might use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to work with depression or anxiety; or Mindfulness techniques to help manage stress; or explore how your past relationships are playing a part in present ones or causing negative patterns in relationships to repeat. Writing, drawing and other creative techniques can also be helpful.
My training incorporated a Christian worldview and I have worked with many people wishing to explore the impact of faith on their current issues or how their problems are impacting their faith.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BA Honours Theology & Counselling (2010) Middlesex University
- MA in Integrative Psychotherapy (2014) Middlesex University
- HDip Diploma in Supervision (2017)
- Training in IFS Therapy (2014)
- Training in Compassion Focused Therapy (2016)
- Training in Mindfulness (2016)
- PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) Training Days (2015, 2016 and 2018)
- Introduction to Eating Disorders (2018)
- Working with Domestic Abuse (2018)
- Working with Suicide (2018)
- Working with Diversity: LGTB+ (2019)
- Sensorimotor Training: Trauma and the Body and Body Awareness and Physical Action the Treatment of Trauma (2019)
- Systemic Leadership and management: performance of practice for organisational change (2019)
- Narcissim and Echoism workshop (2020)
- Supervision via digital media in times of crisis (2020)
- Safeguarding vulnerable adults (2020)
- Single Session Therapy (2021)
- Working with Violent Perpetrators (2021)
- Working with Covert OCD (obsessions, ruminations and intrusive thoughts)
- Working with Eating Disorders from Systemic/Family viewpoint (2021)
- Working on Sex with Couples in Therapy (2021)
- Working with the impact of Transgenerational Trauma (2021)
- Working with Borderline Personality Disorder (2022)
- Clinical Foundations in Gottman Method Couples Counselling Levels 1 and 2 (2023-ongoing)
- Working with Neurodivergence and Disordered Eating/Eating Disorders (2024)
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.
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.
The Association of Christian Counsellors and Linked Professions is a professional body representing and setting standards for Christian counselling and care in the UK. The organisation is made up of various different membership categories, including Counsellor and Accredited, and requires all members working as counsellors to undertake Continuous Professional Development on a regular basis.
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.
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
Fees
£55.00 - £60.00
Additional information
Online Counselling: £55 for a 50 minute individual session.
In-person counselling: £60 for a 50 minute individual session.
Supervision for qualified counsellors/psychotherapists: £60/ hour
Supervision for counselling students: £40-£60.
When I work
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In person: by request
Online: 9am-4pm, Thursday afternoons, Friday 9am - 4pm.
