Lynsey Mallinson - Dip. Couns, NLP Practitioner & Mediator
About me
Counselling With Lynsey
Life can be tough at times, taking us on paths we might not understand, want, expect, or that we perhaps regret.
Whatever it is that you're struggling with, I'm here to help.
I won’t tell you what to do as I believe you know yourself best, even though you might not feel like you do!
Instead, my role will be to sit, walk, or just be, alongside you as you find your way to your own answers.
Together we can talk and explore your thoughts and feelings or consider your options, or any decisions you need to make, in order to help you move forward feeling differently about things.
My approach
I mainly work from a person-centred approach, believing you know yourself best and that ultimately you can find your own answers with the right support.
I'll also use other tools and techniques to suit you best and I also offer counselling sessions outdoors if you'd like to work in this way.
What can you expect from our sessions?
Our initial session will enable you to talk about you, what you'd like to work on and how you'd like things to be different.
This is also an opportunity for us to see if we can work together. With counselling, it's important you find someone you feel you can trust and open up to.
The number of sessions will depend on you and what you bring, but we'll review how you think things are going along the way.
Hopefully you'll reach a stage when you feel lighter and better in yourself as well as in a stronger position to be able to move forward in the direction you want.
Walking counselling & counselling with nature
As well as sessions in the more traditional setting of the counseling room, I offer walking counselling and counselling with nature sessions which might suit you if you are an outdoors person, or looking for something different.
Exercise and fresh air can help us feel better and being outdoors can sometimes be more freeing, giving a different perspective on things.
For walking sessions, we'll chose a circular route that suits you and you'll set the pace - and we can stop along the way if you want to.
In addition, or instead, we can be creative, using nature to help us talk about things. We'll incorporate the environment and space around us using the time to just be, or we'll do different activities to help explore more about you and whatever it is you want to work through.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm a qualified counsellor (BACP Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling) and NLP
(neuro-linguistic programming) practitioner working with adults, young adults and children in Jersey in the Channel Islands. As well as running my own private practice, I am a secondary school counsellor.
I have many years’ experience offering emotional support to people of all ages and backgrounds with all sorts of worries and issues.
I've been a Community Bereavement Service support worker for more than seven years and I was previously a funeral director, so I'm experienced in dealing with grief and bereavement and helping people work through many different losses.
I've been a Samaritan for more than fourteen years and I'm also a Festival Samaritan, so I'm practiced in offering an empathic listening ear and giving people the opportunity to really be heard.
In addition, I am a qualified mediator, trained to help separated or divorced couples with communication, child contact and finances. As part of this role, I also work with children so their voice can be heard as well.
I also co-ordinate and deliver a children's programme with Silkworth Charity Group which helps youngsters affected by addiction.
If you have any questions, or want to find out more, please feel free to get in touch and we can talk in more detail.
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
- Walking counselling
- Counselling with nature
- Teenager
- Young adult
- Funeral
- Death
- Dying
Therapies offered
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Fees
Sessions are 55 minutes long and cost £55.
Shorter sessions are offered to children and longer sessions when there is more than one person, with the cost adjusted accordingly.
You can pay by cash, cheque or online.
