Lucy Atherton
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About me
I am a Gestalt counsellor based in Bristol and I am currently offering in-person and online sessions.
I offer a safe, calm and confidential space for you to explore what has brought you to counselling. I will invite you to be curious about yourself in sessions, to explore how you relate to others and how you respond in the life situations you find yourself in.
The practice of Gestalt means that there will be a focus on exploring your experience as it unfolds moment by moment in the session. This may include exploring current life situations as well as past experiences. My aim is to create a safe environment for you to speak and be heard; to help raise awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and how they impact your relationship to yourself and others day to day. I believe that by gaining new insights into how you think and feel, you will develop a stronger sense of yourself and live your life in a more fulfilling way.
I have experience of working with clients with a variety of issues, including complex family dynamics, stress, long term health issues, anxiety and depression. I have a focus on working with people who are recently bereaved or experiencing a life changing loss.
Training, qualifications & experience
Dip. Couns: Gestalt Centre London
MBACP (Accred)
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.
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
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
My fee is £50 for a 50-minute session. I offer in-person sessions and online sessions using Zoom.
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Further information
Please get in touch by email and let me know what times would be suitable for an initial call. This will give us a chance to talk about what you are seeking from counselling for and to arrange an initial session, which will be an opportunity for us decide on working together and to plan the next steps.
www.lucyathertoncouselling.co.uk
