Lori Thackham
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About me
Welcome! I am an experienced psychotherapeutic therapist offering counselling to adults and young people for anxiety, depression and trauma. I also work with attachment trauma, and difficulties associated with narcissistic relationships.
You may have a sense of feeling stuck or feeling numb, unsure of what you feel; of not knowing what you want or need. You may be feeling a lack of safety in your life or relationships. You may have a sense of being unseen and unheard and not knowing how to change this. My creative approach helps you understand yourself more deeply, work through trauma, identify your needs, and achieve greater well-being.
I tailor sessions to your specific concerns, whether it's anxiety, feeling stuck, loss of trust, frustration, disappointment, feeling angry, hurt, sad, confused or dealing with challenging life experiences.
How does Counselling help?
Counselling is a talking therapy that helps you navigate difficult life events, understand your feelings, and gain self-awareness. It can guide you in making decisions and moving forward.
Clients often feel numb, angry, scared, have low self-esteem, feel depressed, or withdrawn. My goal is to help you work through these feelings and find a path to healing.
Counselling can transform your feelings and lead to increased confidence, stronger personal boundaries, and improved relationships.
My Approach
I can support you in a therapeutic relationship to explore your feelings creatively and holistically. As an integratively trained therapist, I offer Inner Child, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Transactional Analysis (TA) approaches to help you understand and resolve internal conflicts and deeper emotions.
I aim to use these approaches to help you understand and work through difficult situations and feelings, build trust in yourself and gain confidence to make choices about how you want your life to be.
I work holistically to support you in making connections between your thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and existential meaning; to help facilitate personal growth and understanding.
I support clients with:
- Anxiety
- Difficulties associated with a narcissistic relationship
- Panic attacks
- Attachment trauma
- Unresolved feelings
- Family issues
- Relationship breakdown
- Low self-esteem and confidence
- Loss and bereavement
- Emotional difficulties
Sessions: I offer a free 30-minute telephone consultation to discuss how counselling can work for you. We'll determine the number of sessions, frequency, and a suitable schedule.
Face-to-face sessions are held in my therapy room in Tavistock, and online sessions are conducted via Zoom.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor, and I have the following qualifications;
- CPCAB Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision
- CPCAB Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies
- CPCAB Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Certificate in Online & Telephone Counselling
- TA 101
Experience
I am an experienced counsellor having worked in the following environments:·
- NHS primary care, providing counselling for adults in GP surgeries
- Assistant Clinical Lead handling GP referrals
- Secondary school counsellor supporting young adults, dealing with safeguarding
- Counsellor for boarding students at a College of Further Education
- Counselling Tutor delivering CPCAB Level 2 counselling skills and Level 3 counselling theory at the Devon & Cornwall Counselling Hub.
Additionally, before I qualified as a counsellor I was an experienced Thrive Practitioner and HLTA (Higher Level Teaching Assistant) in a primary school, supporting children's social and emotional needs and development.
I also worked as a Relax Kids Coach, delivering Chill Skills and mindfulness approaches for anxiety.
Training
I regularly undertake CPD and have attended courses in;
- relational trauma
- understanding the affects of shame
- art therapy
- using mindfulness
- working with soul
- working with anxiety
- creative strategies to use with young people
- adolescent mental health
- suicide assessment and self-injury
- retrospective jealousy in relationships
- gender and sexual diversity
- narcissism
- transactional analysis
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Transactional Anlysis
- Working with PTSD & Trauma
- working with anxiety
- gender & sexual diversity
- stress & mental health
- data protection and privacy
I undertake regular supervision and am a registered member of the National Counselling& Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) Accredited Register.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Counselling sessions usually take place weekly and last for 60 minutes. They cost £55 per session. I offer a free 30 minute telephone/online consultation.
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Please call or email me for further information.
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Further information
Insurance and data protection
I am registered with the ICO for Data Protection and GDPR, and I have a privacy policy which explains how I use and store information. This is discussed and agreed at the first session. I am also insured, trained in safeguarding, and hold a current Enhanced DBS.
