Louise Diffey
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About me
Do you want to improve low self-esteem, reduce stress and anxiety, and increase resilience? Do you wish to talk through your experiences of family or other relationships? Have you experienced bereavement and feel that you would benefit from counselling to help process your feelings?
I offer integrative talking therapy using elements of different approaches. Some examples are person centred work to enable you to talk through and make sense of your experiences and emotions; helpful ways of thinking and implementing self-care for anxiety and stress to increase regulation of the nervous system and help you feel calmer; psychodynamic work to acknowledge and process the past and find ways to move forward; inner child work to enable you to meet your own emotional needs; talking therapy and different models of grief to support with bereavement.
I believe that there is hope for each of us to feel better through counselling. Even small shifts can have a ripple effect throughout your life.
I offer weekly sessions, and I also work fortnightly to allow for more affordable counselling.
I also offer single session therapy, working with a specific topic in one session only. Just message me to check whether this would be appropriate for your situation.
Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in counselling, you would like to ask any questions, or you would like to arrange an introductory telephone call.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Foundation Degree in Counselling from Plymouth University
- Enhanced DBS certificate
- Experience as an NHS Occupational Health Counsellor
- Experience as a volunteer counsellor for Bath Mind.
- Began career as registered nurse.
- Releasing Trauma and Chronic Stress
- Working with Narcissism
- Keys to working successfully with men
- Polyvagal Theory (neuroscience of stress, anxiety, trauma and relaxation responses)
- Somatic and Embodiment Work for anxiety and trauma
- The Drama Triangle-how to improve interactions with others
- Mental Health First Aid
- Psychodynamic Theory
- Shame and Dependency
- Emotional Neglect
- Coping with Guilt
- Single session therapy
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Internet dating scams/catfishing-have you grown to care about someone who was not who they said they were?
Online fraud-a devastating experience that can affect anyone.
Relationships with people with narcissistic behaviour patterns.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
I offer a FREE initial 15 minute consultation phone call where we can have an informal chat.
All sessions £50 per session (in person sessions held on weekday afternoons).
When I work
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My latest in person or online sessions begin at 6 PM.
My latest telephone session begins at 6.30 PM.
Please email me for availability, as this can change regularly. Thank you.
Further information
I also work with:
· clients considering cutting or limiting contact with, or who have already chosen to be estranged from, family members
· clients who have experienced online issues such as romance scams and catfishing (where the person you were in contact with turned out not to be who they claimed to be)
