About me
I specialise in helping people to face stress, anxiety, and tough or traumatic life experiences. I help you to process the past, calm anxiety, and feel less overwhelmed by daily life – work, relationships, parenting, etc.
Does this resonate with you?
Stress, anxiety, and trauma are areas in which I have a special interest, specialist training, and lived experience that help me to more fully see your experience and guide you through recovery.
My mission is to help you grow by getting to the bottom of anxiety and difficult experiences. And healing their impact so you can move forward with peace, confidence, and resilience.
My therapy services
Stress, anxiety & burnout therapy
I provide tools to help calm anxiety and identify and process the root causes and patterns underpinning your current stress, anxiety, and burnout. Working with you to restore your resilience and bring about lasting change.
I can help you to face and overcome the challenges of stress, anxiety or burnout and related areas such as performance anxiety, health anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, and low self-esteem. I use an effective and specialist approach (EMDR therapy) and other tools. Follow the link to discover more
EMDR therapy for stress, anxiety & burnout - Foster Growth Therapy Nottingham, Derby & online
Recovery from traumatic life experiences
Do you struggle with controlling emotions, intrusive thoughts, nightmares, or reliving a distressing experience? Distressing experiences can leave you feeling stuck, as the past gets in the way of the present. I work with you to focus on daily coping but also healing.
I have specialist training in trauma, experience of supporting clients in this area, and lived experience, having grown up in a toxic family.
When past distressing experiences are processed, using a specialist approach like EMDR, their impact on the present is greatly reduced. Follow the link to discover more:
EMDR therapy for trauma & PTSD - Foster Growth Therapy Nottingham, Derby & online
You can book a free introductory call through my website: https://fostergrowththerapy.co.uk
You can also follow me for anxiety and trauma-related insights & tips: https://facebook.com/lyndafostergrowth
Training, qualifications & experience
EMDR Training Accredited by EMDR UK/Europe
CPCAB Qualified Level 5 Trauma Therapist
Accredited Professional with National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) (Equivalent to BACP Accredited)
PG Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy
I've worked with various charities across Nottinghamshire and in my private practice. Before training as a therapist, I was a university lecturer for many years.
Member organisations
school 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.
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy 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
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.
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
Complex trauma/PTSD; Birth trauma
Therapies offered
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Fees
£75.00 per session
Additional information
It's worth considering that, as EMDR is a very focused therapy, it tends to be effective over fewer sessions than traditional talk therapy. This means you're unlikely to need as many sessions to achieve similar results, reducing the overall cost.
It may be possible to estimate the likely number of sessions needed following a first session.
When I work
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My working hours are: Tuesday 1pm-6.30pm, Wednesday 8.30am-6pm and Thursday 8.30am-6pm.
Further information
I look forward to hearing from you and welcome your enquiries about working with me. Please do email me or call and leave me a message. If I don't respond to your call/email straightaway it might be outside my working hours or I could be with another client but I aim to respond to your call/email within 1 working day.
I am unable to provide crisis support. If you are in crisis, please call the Samaritans on: 116 123 or NHS 111.
