Mark Pharoah
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About me
I offer counselling to individuals, to couples and family relationships. I take a sensitive, non-judgmental and empathic attitude from the outset because I appreciate that it can take a great deal of courage to seek therapy and make that initial contact.
Individual psychotherapy: There are many reasons why you might be seeking individual counselling. Perhaps you feel anxious, depressed, or have suffered loss. There maybe problems at work or with family members. Maybe your issues are due to recent events or stretch far back to past abuse or narcissistic trauma.
I provide therapy for those suffering from troubling feelings and thoughts. There maybe social anxiety, low self-esteem, feelings of isolation, exclusion, and loneliness, or a sense of being overwhelmed, confused or numb. I also see clients with the unique challenges associated with neurodivergence, including dyslexia, autism and ADHD.
Couples and relationship counselling: For couples and relationships, there may be seemly irreconcilable conflict and arguments, or repeated cycles of harmful words and/or actions. You may be suffering and feel trapped by the impact of a betrayal or loss. Alternatively, you may have come to a difficult transition in life and are not sure how to negotiate moving forward. Typically, I look to offer short-term counselling for couples of about 12 sessions, but I remain flexible on this.
As an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist I provide online and face-to-face therapy for a range of issues both big and small over the long or short term. I call on a variety of approaches. These include the person-centred, existential, cognitive (CBT), psychodynamic, systems, developmental and relational approaches. This integrative counselling enables me to be very adaptable and flexible to the unique problems that clients might be facing.
Training, qualifications & experience
I qualified with distinction from Inter-Psyche Training Centre in Dartford which is affiliated to the Kent and Medway NHS Trust Foundation. This is a Level 6 qualification. Currently, I work for the NHS's IAPT service providing short-term therapy for individuals with complex problems and for Bromley Community Counselling Service.
I also qualified with distinction as a couples and relationship's counsellor with a COSRT accredited Level 5 course with The Grove Practice in King's Cross.
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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).
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Fees
£50.00 - £100.00
Additional information
I have availability on weekdays between 8am and 4pm.
The fee for individual counselling is £50 per session. For couples and relationships it is £100 per session.
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