Affordable Counselling and Supervision
About us
We are experienced counsellors with a wide variety of backgrounds.
We are now offering Zoom, Skype, face time or phone session until the virus has passed us by. Our qualified counsellors are also offering face to face sessions.
We offer counselling with qualified counsellors in rooms in Bristol or in your own home We work in rooms in Stoke Gifford BS16 and Saltford BS31. These counsellors are offering us their concessionary spaces at £35.00 per session these sessions can be online or face to face.
We also offer counselling with counsellors continuing in their training in your home, this starts at £25 and we have concessionary spaces as well, the minimum we can take per session is £15.00 these spaces continue to be online or phone sessions.
All counsellors working in the service have been approved to practice by both a trainer and a BACP accredited counselling supervisor.
Our counsellors receive on-going professional supervision which ensures the quality of the counselling is to a high professional standard.
Our supervisors offer supervision to counsellors in private practice and to counsellors working in organisations.
Affordable counselling is being managed by Tina Free, who has 25 years’ experience of offering counselling services to clients and supervision support to working counsellors. www.tinafree.co.uk
Several of our counsellors and the agency supervisors are members of BACP. Tina Free is an accredited member of NCS. We follow the BACP guidelines and work to their ethical framework. We have public liability and professional indemnity insurance.
Personal information Data Protection
Affordable and Low Cost Counselling is an organisational member of ICO. You have rights under data protection law for further information about your rights please contact: www.ico.org.uk. The data protection person at Low Cost Counselling is Tina Free
We are happy to answer any questions you have about the service; please contact us by email here
Training, qualifications & experience
Our values are drawn from the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) ethical framework. These include working with integrity, honesty and courage. We hold confidentiality as central to our work
Our key theoretical model is drawn from humanistic theory where we believe that each person has the ability to take responsibility for themselves and to change and grow towards their own potential.
We also draw on other theories and theorists and in supervision consider the work from a psycho dynamic perspective.
Member organisations *
Registered / Accredited
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.
National Counselling Society
The National Counselling Society
This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations.
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
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Supervision: Tina Free Counselling Supervisor, DipCouns, ADCS, Cert Ed, AMNCS
07927355028 If you would like to talk with me about supervision please contact me.
Supervision like counselling deepens as the relationship is developed.
I offer an ethical and structured opportunity to explore your client work and understand yourself as the counsellor.
As our relationship grows, I hope you would experience yourself as loving supervision, feeling safe and supported, and excited by the therapeutic process that you are offering your clients.
Therapies offered
Fees
We hope that everyone that would like to have counselling will be able to access it.
Affordable Counselling in Bristol or in your home is £35.00 per session.
Counselling with a counsellor continuing in their training in your home, this starts at £25 and we have concessionary spaces as well, the minimum we can take per session is £15.00.
When you contact our service we will email a referral form to you and you can decide which aspect of the service you want to access
We ask that you pay for cancelled sessions if you give us less than 3 days’ notice.
Further information
We would see you on the same day and time each week, the session may be 50 minutes or for one hour.
We offer 6 sessions to begin with and then work with you to have more sessions if that feels helpful to you.
We work from person-centred theory which means we try to understand you, your life and the world from your point of view - which in turn helps you to understand yourself better and helps you to find your way forward.
