Lucy Gardner
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About me
Hello and welcome to my profile. As a fully qualified counsellor, I can support you as you explore your internal world and experiences in your life so far.
It may be that you're coming to counselling to process a difficult life event, explore your past, reach towards your goals or better understand yourself and your experiences. Whichever of these sounds like you, I offer a warm, empathetic and non-judgmental space where you can grow in self awareness and work through the content you choose to bring to counselling.
My hope for counselling is for you to experience meaningful change in areas of your life that are causing you distress and suffering. Building a trusting therapeutic relationship is at the heart of my work with you. This is the foundation on which we will work together on: exploring your thoughts, feelings, behaviours and beliefs and considering how these impact your daily life.
I am an integrative practitioner, which means I draw on several counselling approaches to inform my work with clients. I use attachment theory to better understand how patterns that are formed in early years can impact our relationships and experiences today. Further, humanistic modalities of Transactional Analysis and Gestalt theory bring a creative dynamic to my work. This means we can use metaphor and creative techniques to gain insight and process difficult feelings and experiences.
I work with adults on a weekly basis. My working days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. I am currently available for online sessions and some in-person sessions.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a BACP registered Psychotherapist / Counsellor. As well as experience in counselling adults in short and long term psychotherapy, I have also worked with adolescents and children.
I have worked with a wide range of presenting issues including (but not limited to): loss, bereavement, anxiety, depression, stress, self harm, changing life stages, low self esteem, identity issues, relational difficulties, spirituality.
Before becoming a psychotherapist I worked for an international development charity, with particular focus on women who have experienced gender-based violence. I have also worked with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities both in the UK and abroad.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
When I work
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Please reach out to find out more about what times are available.
Further information
I offer a free initial 15 minute phone call which gives you a chance to hear what I sound like, and ask any initial questions you might have about the process of counselling.
From there, we will arrange to have an initial 50 minute session. The aim of this first session is for you to determine whether we are a good fit to work together. I will ask you some questions - some of which may feel personal - which help me to assess whether I am able to provide you with what you need. I also welcome your questions you might have for me and the way I work.
If we both decide that we are a good fit to work together, we will decide on a time and day to meet weekly.
If you're not sure about whether now is the right time for ongoing therapy, you might be interested in the Wellbeing Reset package that I offer: a reflective questionnaire, a 90 minute wellbeing session and a personalised aftercare pack. You can find out more about this through my website: www.lucygardnercounselling.com
