Maria Bradley
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About me
I am a British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, (BACP), and NHS Accredited psychodynamic counsellor/psychotherapist. I am NHS Accredited through The University of Nottingham in Person-Centered-Emotion Focused Therapy and am registered with AXA Health seeing their members. I am trained with NAPAC to work with adult survivors of childhood trauma and have particular interest in abusive relationships of all kinds.
Whatever brings you; depression, anxiety, family issues, childhood trauma, bereavement/loss or relationship problems of any kind, I have the experience needed to help. Maybe you had a difficult childhood, or are struggling with relationships of any kind, have unresolved things in your past, or any of the many things that can derail us in life we start with that. My years of experience mean that there is little that is new, but what is always new is you, the client, who brings into our therapeutic relationship their own uniqueness. Psychodynamic therapy concerns itself with unconscious processes as a way into a deeper self. It isn't magic, just a way of listening. People are often surprised that there are aspects of themselves that they have not thought about and so have never thought how these things help or hinder them. We can go through life without stopping to think about what made us who we are, about how we are in relationships or why we react in certain ways. There will be a reason, it is not 'just who I am' and immutable. I am happy to call for a chat and you can ask me anything without commitment, or you can email and take a first step. I see people in my room in Hemel Hempstead or via video.
Training, qualifications & experience
BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist.
Advanced Level Psychodynamic Counselling
Accredited Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression, (PCE-CfD) University of Nottingham, (NICE / NHS License).
NAPAC qualified. Trauma-Informed Therapist. Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect.
NHS Psychotherapist working in IAPT
Clinical practice with The Counselling Foundation (BACP Accred.) Charity.
Private Practice Hemel Hempstead and St Albans
Member organisations
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.
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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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Qualified in childhood Trauma-Informed Therapy: Trauma in adults resulting from emotional, sexual and physical abuse and neglect in childhood.
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
Initial consultation; £50
Fifty Minute Weekly Counselling; £50.
When I work
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Although my availability changes things, I work Monday to Thursday 9am-7pm.
Further information
After you contact me I will agree an initial consultation with you. There is no commitment at this point. Whatever is going on for you that brings you to seek counselling you have taken the first step. I work with people with problems of all sorts. Yours are unique, so I need to get to know you and together we can discover what lies beneath. Awareness changes lives. These are some of the things I can help with:
- Relationships of all kinds
- Childhood abuse or neglect.
- Trauma.
- Bereavement/Grief, redundancy. Loss.
- Eating Disorders
- Family life; coming to terms with a child's behavioural problems, medical diagnosis or educational label.
- Ill health or disability.
Whatever the 'problem', we work together to build strength and resilience.
