Lyn Reed, MA,MBACP(reg),Pro.Adv.Dip.PC, Pgd.Cert in Clinical Supervision
About me
I believe the therapeutic relationship is an important one. Within it we can explore and understand concerns from the past that may be influencing the present. A safe space is provided which enables us to look at issues which often cloud the here and now. 'Meeting Minds' offers a flexible, open ended approach tailored made to suit individual needs and expectations - whatever stage we are at on the road to recovery - and to help us stay on that road. Areas explored include::
- relationships
- anxiety
- self-defeating beliefs
- managing chronic health
- stress in the workplace
- life changes
- low self esteem and confidence issues
- addictions
- loss and bereavement
- abuse
- emotional well-being
- work/life balance
- journaling
- self expression through creativity eg art, writing
I offer daytime and evening appointments.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training
I trained as an integrative counselling practitioner drawing upon a wide range of therapeutic techniques as part of my professional practice. I have attained the Advanced Professional Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I am fully insured to undertake my practice.I am a qualified social worker/probation officer (Postgraduate Dip.Soc/CQSW) and have a M.A. (by thesis). I also have a post graduate certificate in clinical supervision.
I have tutored courses including assertiveness in the workplace, handling stress, self management for chronic health conditions (Expert Patient Programme); provided self expression through the creative arts eg art, craft, music, drama, creative writing.
i have attained the Certificate in Life Coaching.
Experience
- My experience of empowering individuals through personal growth to achieve emotional well being has been acquired by working for many years in both the public and voluntary sectors.
- Working within the community I have supported and empowered individuals to tackle their addictions, help those who experience isolation and exclusion and also those experiencing depression and other mental health concerns.
- As a co tutor on the NHS programme Solutions for Health, I encourage individuals experiencing anxiety and stress to use self-management techniques - thereby taking responsibility for building their own emotional tool kit unique to their own individual needs.
- As a student supervisor, I have extensive experience of supporting and empowering both students and employees at all levels by helping them to manage their stress and anxiety in their working/educational environment
- I work with many clients who experience relationship issues, anxiety and depression.
- I am a former Anxiety UK approved therapist providing therapeutic support to the charity's members and partners beneficiaries.
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.
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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 I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I also offer life coaching for those who are functioning healthily in their life but seeking to find a way forward from their current situation and learn how they can set realistic goals for whatever they want to achieve in life. This can be achieved by mind mapping, developing coaching plans, time management, learning assertiveness techniques.
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Fees
As an independent counsellor I am dedicated to providing a service which is accessible to as many people as possible including the least well-off and those with chronic health conditions. In these circumstances I am open to negotiation!
Costs are as follows:
Due to COVID-19 I am currently unable to offer face to face counselling sessions.
I am continuing to offer a FREE consultation lasting 30 minutes - please contact me on 07854842927.
I am charging £20.00 per hour for key workers, students, etc, £25.00 for all others (via Skype, phone or email)
Please note that under 2012 legislation your home insurance provider may be able to help you with your counselling fees. If a qualified medical practitioner has advised that you would benefit from therapeutic intervention then you may be able to apply for your fees to be refunded.
Concessions offered for
Further information
I keep myself up to date with developments in the world of counselling through Continuous Professional Development. I also keep myself well informed via social media and other news outlets in relation to therapy and mental well being in general.
Published articles
More articles by Lyn Reed
- Emerging from lockdown will be an unique experience
- Why time feels heavy in lockdown and what you can do about it
- Disenfranchised grief during COVID-19
- Writing can be life-saving in a crisis
- It takes a lockdown to give people with disabilities an opening
- How to help your mental health during the pandemic crisis
- Covid-19 and lockdown can teach us how to 'let go'
- With coronavirus comes many losses
- True personal empowerment is not just about individuals
- Why it is important to keep a healthy mind
- How therapy can help us to learn to be alone with ourselves
- Therapy alone is not enough when tackling addiction
- What to do when intrusive thoughts come to mind
- Make fear your friend
- Are you helping or enabling your adult child?
- Are you afraid of being found out?
- How can therapy help you overcome workplace bullying?
- Relationships: healing your losses
- How do we develop anxiety?
- Imposter syndrome: afraid of being 'found out'?
- Unhealthy jealousy in relationships
- What to do when depression enters a relationship
- In relationships, good fences make good neighbours
- Facing divorce? It's possible to have a good ending
- Working with gambling addiction
- Are you an addictive thinker? It's hard work but you can change your thoughts
- Jealousy in relationships: taming the green-eyed monster
- Male, 40 and stuck? That will be a mid-life crisis then...
- Living with addiction? You need support too.....
- Loneliness is not a private affair
- Binge eating? Here's some food for thought...
- How careless talk can trigger emotional eating
- 'Are you listening to me or do you just hear what I say?'
- Addiction: how it damages relationships
- How neediness can affect our self-belief
- Abuse comes in many guises: Let therapy uncover it
- Co-dependent? How therapy can help us act and not react
- Make friends with your inner self
- Self-injury awareness: There is another way
- Learning new habits is different to shedding old ones
- Coming to terms with our past
- This New Year discover what works for you
- This Christmas stay in the adult mode
- How writing your own story can help your emotional pain
- Are our goals still working for us?
- Private practice: the therapist as a good role model
- Writing can help us remember the important stuff
- Relationship counselling: Let's hear it from both parties
- Having a relationship with ourselves and others
- Highly sensitive person and proud of it
- Teenage boys: They need a voice too
- A badge of honour! Who'd have thought it?
- Look out for the hero at work - they may be close by...
- Art and young people: 'How come I feel empty inside?'
