Lynne Ford
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About me
Hi my name is Lynne and I am an experienced and accredited therapist, offering counselling and psychotherapy for adults and for children.
I offer therapeutic support for your individual needs with understanding and compassion.
About you
You may have been experiencing intense feelings, anxiety, felt overwhelmed, high levels of stress, bereavement or loss. You may be experiencing difficulties in your life at the moment, within a relationship, feel isolated or lost.
Have thoughts, feelings or memories of past experiences or relationships recently resurfaced or continue to affect you today?
How I can help
I can help you to develop understanding of your emotional needs, explore ways to express feelings and empower you to make changes for a more fulfilled life.
I offer a calm space, where you can take your time to speak about life experiences and their impact, explore your thoughts and feelings and hopes for the future.
I offer an integrative approach - I have experience and training in therapeutic approaches - this enables me to consider how best to support you to heal and make changes.
I offer creative arts therapy - If you are seeking support, but are anxious about talking about painful life experiences - creative therapy can help you to process and express feelings by helping to contain them. Creative therapy includes art therapy, exploring the meaning of dreams, guided visualisation, creative writing or music.
I can help you to develop understanding of your emotional needs, explore ways to express feelings and empower you to make changes for a more fulfilled life.
Please visit my website to read more about the therapeutic approaches that I offer.
About your child
I understand that considering therapy for your child may seem daunting. I offer warmth and compassion and will deeply listen to your concerns about your child.
How I can help
My therapy room has been carefully considered to be both calm and welcoming, I will introduce your child to the range of therapeutic activities and art materials available in the room.
I offer play therapy for younger children and talking therapy and/or creative arts therapy for young people. - Play and creative therapy can help your child to process and express feelings, when it is hard to put them into words or speak about them directly. It can also help to contain them.
Therapy can either be child led or I can provide reassurance that I am there to support them to communicate and express themselves in their own way and at their own pace.
Contacting me
You are very welcome to email or call me. I encourage you to share a little of what brings you to consider therapy at this time. We can then explore your hopes and goals for therapy and how we might work together.
Lynne
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Integrative Counselling
Foundation in Art Therapy
Certificate - Living & working with PTSD
Certificate in Assessment & Action Planning
Diploma in Child Counselling - Incorporating the Arts
I have over 14 years of experience in helping clients who have encountered difficulties with :-
Anxiety
Attachment issues
Bereavement and loss
Body Image
Childhood trauma and traumatic experiences
Commitment issues
Depression
Dissociation
Divorce/separation
Emotional abuse
Emotional regulation
Family issues
Feeling confused or lost
Identity issues
Lack of confidence
Lack or self esteem or self-worth
Life events and life transitions
Loneliness and Isolation
Perfectionism
Relationship issues
Self care
Self criticism
Self harm
Sexual abuse
Shame and guilt
Sleep difficulties
Stress
Suicidal thoughts
Trust issues
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school Registered / Accredited
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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
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