Louise Dawson MBACP Accredited Integrative Counsellor

Training, qualifications & experience

* Foundation Degree in Counselling, consisting of;
  - Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
  - Diploma in Integrative Humanistic Counselling
  - Certificate in Counselling Studies
  - Certificate in Counselling Skills
  - Open University modules - Counselling: Exploring fear and sadness, Exploring psychology, Understanding social change

               
* Postgraduate Diploma in Person Centred Couples work

* Postgraduate Diploma in Attachment-based Therapy

I am an Accredited Counsellor and a member of the BACP, and also hold the Certificate of Proficiency for the BACP Register.

I have also completed training in Asperger's Awareness and Dissociation in Adolescents and Adults.

I have my own private practice where I work with clients presenting with a wide variety of issues. In addition to this, I work as an Associate Counsellor for The Old Surgery in Leighton Buzzard. Previously I worked with clients who had accessed counselling through a busy drop in service, and was part of an agency that worked with gambling addicts.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

I also offer Couples Counselling, and in such sessions provide you both with the opportunity and space to work on understanding each other better, and the issues you are experiencing within your relationship. This encouraging environment to you both to gain a greater understanding of how the problems in your relationship may have developed, will then lead on to us finding some different, and maybe more helpful ways of communicating and working through problems in the future.

Further information

I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and work within their ethical framework and guidelines. This means I will be working in the best interests of my clients, and as part of this, I also have monthly supervision for all my work.