Margaret Parker
About me
Margaret is an experienced Psychotherapist who uses mindfulness and meditation in her practice to help clients establish a healthier, more balanced relationship with life. Her specialisms include anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, relationship difficulties, parenting difficulties and eating disorders. Margaret is extremely relational and committed to helping people get the most from their lives and achieve their goals.
Training, qualifications & experience
Margaret holds a BA (Hons) degree in Psychology, an MSc in Occupational Psychology and has a MSc in Gestalt Psychotherapy from Metanoia Institute. She has a Certificate in Counselling Teenagers from the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with the BPS and has a Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and a Certificate in Hypnotherapy. She is an Accrediated Member of UKCP and is a Member of the British Association of Counselling and abides by their code of practice.
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.
UK Council for Psychotherapy
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. 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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Availability
Evening and daytime appointments are available.
