Mandy York Ford

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Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6JF
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About me

I’m interested in you and how you landed here, what happened or is happening to you and how this makes you feel about yourself. 

My hope is that you will find in me, someone who listens with compassion, speaks with honesty and values you without judgement. 

My initial training was in a humanistic approach which is based on the principal that we all have unique way of viewing the world based on our personal experiences. It's these experiences which influence how we feel internally and how we behave externally.  Emotions are not illnesses and we each communicate distress in different ways. 

“In my view, the work of every professional whatever their training should be based on this principal:  that however unusual, confusing, overwhelming or frightening someone’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are, there is always a way of making sense of them.”  Lucy Johnstone

So, if you feel ready to enter a brave space, to feel heard and understood. I’d like to help.

Training, qualifications & experience

I am a fully qualified Person Centred Counsellor/psychotherapist and a registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy). I have professional experience working with adults and young people 11+, have worked and volunteered in a variety of settings. These include: Bereavement service within a hospice, Secondary school counselling service and counselling service providers in Birmingham, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Compassionate Inquiry  Dr Gabor Maté

Polyvagal theory and trauma Deb Dana

Internal Family Systems (IFS) 

Online Therapy institute (Moving your practice online)

A Disorder for Everyone - exploring the culture psychiatric diagnosis, creating change

Warwickshire Pride- LGBT+ awareness training

First Person Plural -Trauma Related Complex Dissociation

Myton Hospice - loss and bereavement training.

Safeline Warwick - OCN Working with survivors of rape and sexual abuse including trauma. 2018

FdSc Counselling and Psychotherapy (person centred) 2019

Level 3 Certificate in Counselling skills 2011

Level 2 counselling skills 2010

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Fees

£55.00 per session
Free initial in-person session

Concessions offered for

  • Low income
  • OAPs
  • Students
  • Trainee counsellors
  • Unemployed
  • Refugees

Additional information

£50

When I work

Appointments can be made via the website showing availability in real time.

23 Wood Street, Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6JF

Type of session

In person

Types of client

Adults
Older adults

Key details

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Mandy York Ford
Mandy York Ford