Matthew Nolan
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About me
Often people are unsure whether they need support from a counsellor, a therapist or a psychotherapist. I'm qualified and experienced enough to describe myself as either and will happily discuss my qualifications and modalities for those of you who would like to hear about them but, ultimately and most importantly, the only therapist that will work for you is the one that makes you feel safe, secure, heard and validated.... and who you feel is strong enough to walk with you on your therapeutic journey and give you the support you need.
Feel free to get in touch to get a feel for whether you think I'm the person to do that for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm what you call an 'Integrative' therapist. This means I have expertise in a whole range of psychotherapeutic models and techniques. But they are just tools that I can offer you if I feel they might be useful and appropriate. More important is maybe that I'm also a 'relational' therapist which means I see our relationship as the most important part of your therapeutic process.
This means that together we will work out and decide what suits you best - what is right and comfortable for you.
I have a Master's degree in Psychology and Diplomas in both Adult and Child Psychotherapeutic Counselling alongside a bunch of other qualifications. One of my core modalities is Transactional Analysis (TA) but we can use the models or not - its your journey and you get to decide what we use, with my help if you want it. I've worked in schools, with charities and within NHS settings and I adapt my approach to suit whatever your age or issues.
If you are one of us that experiences some form of neurodiversity hopefully you'll recognise the importance of this personalised approach I'm trying to describe - we all need different things according to our specific needs.
We can work together to understand what your needs are and how they can be better met, both in the therapy room and then into the wider world.
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
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
After a quick chat on the phone I'll invite you to, if it feels right, come and visit me at my rooms in Timperley for a free introductory session. Its important that you get a feel for me and for whether you think you might feel safe for us to work together to make your life better.
Further information
Where has my approach come from?
Trauma can look very different for different people. Sometimes its an obvious event like a car crash or an act of violence but sometimes we suffer from events we don't even recognise as trauma. Often our trauma comes from childhood but sometimes we come from the most loving of families in which, for some reason, our parents weren't able to give us what we needed when we were children.
Maybe they were stressed or anxious or stuck in dealing with their own trauma? Maybe they had physical health issues? Maybe they were focused on other things or didn't know how to give their children what they needed because they hadn't received it themselves? Or maybe they had addictions or mental health problems that incapacitated them?
Often the impacts of this can last way into adulthood and we need to explore past events with kindness, kindness for ourselves but also, maybe, with kindness in understanding our parents too.
I've worked in settings where I've helped some of the most dysregulated people but I can also help those of us who don't always recognise our dysregulation but know that somethings not quite right, that we aren't living the lives we want or having the relationships we deserve.
