Lynn Hanford-Day
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About me
You may be in midlife, menopausal, or older and worried about your health, your energy, your weight, your future, your relationships, your sense of wellbeing. If you have reached the point of despair, that no matter what you do nothing seems to work and you've given up, know that you are not alone. I've been there myself and I know how confusing and scary this can be. I can help you to change your relationship with yourself and others, feel more calm and less stressed. It is possible to make peace with the past and to let go of the critical thoughts that take up so much energy.
I specialise in working with a range of needs including: the ‘mother wound’, life crisis, burnout, grief, loss and bereavement, midlife transition, ageing and becoming an elder, death and dying, food addiction and our relationship with food.
I am equally open to working with people who value the intimacy of the therapeutic space as a place for reflection, making sense of yourself and finding the meaning and purpose of life.
I view individuals as unique, seeing you as a person with your own history. My approach is deeply relational, seeking to understand what happened to you and what makes you who you are, listening for what is emergent, what is said and unsaid. I work holistically with body, mind, feelings and the soul.
My training and experience is integrative and transpersonal which means that I blend a range of methods and approaches. Everyone is different and I bespoke my approach to meet your unique needs. I work with the whole person, with your past, present and future, paying attention to trauma, shame, attachment and loss, the ‘presenting past’ and repeating patterns that oftentimes cause us pain and confusion. I bring awareness and compassionate attention to the needs and wants of your different parts, to bring insight, inner peace and harmony.
I view therapy as an alchemical process and may include practices that make the unconscious conscious such as: dreamwork, body work, 'parts' work, expressive art, inner child work, imagery, systemic and family constellations. This may include archetypal and ancestral patterns, as well as shadow work.
If this sounds like you give me a call now and let's get started. I work in-person in central Eastbourne on Mondays and Tuesdays. I also work on-line Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm a dual qualified integrative counsellor and psychosynthesis coach and registered with the professional bodies for both.
I've had a long career in the corporate world as an HR Director and as a consultant. I understand the pressures of the workplace and having been a single parent I am familiar with the challenges of being a mum and having a full-time job.
Qualifications include:
Diploma in Integrative Counselling, the Minster Centre
Practitioner Certificate in Eating Disorders, NCFED
Practitioner Certificate in Working with Obesity, NCFED
Practitioner Certificate in Nutritional Interventions, NCFED
PGCert in Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching, Middlesex University
Wellbeing Coach, Personal Care Institute
Professional Certificate in Coaching, Henley Business School
Certified Gallup Strengths Coach
EMCC Senior Practitioner
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Food addiction (sugar, carbs, UPFs)
Mother issues experienced by daughters
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I am open to short-term and open-ended work.
I offer a reduced fee for counselling and therapy students.
Fees are invoiced and paid monthly.
When I work
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