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About me
My name is Mairi and I am a fully qualified integrative counsellor, registered with BACP. I have experience working with clients in private, charitable and school settings. My approach is integrative, with a strong person-centred basis, which means I will use different modalities of counselling to best fit your personal needs and goals.
Training, qualifications & experience
As well as working with adults on a range of issues, I have also done advanced training in counselling children and young people.
Research shows that one in ten children will experience mental health problems at some point in their young lives. Anxiety, depression, low mood and self harming behaviours can have a hugely negative effect on all areas of a young person’s life, not to mention the potential effect on future opportunities. Children and young people often find it particularly hard to put their thoughts and feelings into words, and that is why working creatively with this age group can be particularly helpful.
Using creative tools such as story building (mapping life so far, highlighting the highs and lows and exploring how they might want the story to continue), nesting dolls (which can help identify and understand different parts of ourselves), emotion and emoji faces (to help identify feelings without the need for words), and various “getting to know you” games (which are designed to help build relationship and encourage meaningful conversation in a non-threatening way) has enhanced my practice with both adults and younger clients alike.
I have also done extensive training on working with trauma.
Other areas I have a particular interest in are chronic illness and anxiety.
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 per session
Additional information
Some concessionary places are available to students and others depending on individual circumstances.
