This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Creative arts and talking one to one therapy for adults and young people and children. Melanie offers one to one talking therapy and counselling for adults and children, young people and mothers and babies.
Therapy can help with any number of challenges in a person’s life and can be of value in any life phase. Therapy can also be the means to gain personal growth and discover how to live your best life!
I have an interest in the links birth trauma has on life patterns and behaviours, I can work with mothers and babies in this area or a child or adult individually.
Some areas in which therapy and counselling can offer support:
- Bereavement
- Life transition e.g. relocation, separation from partner
- Family disputes
- Relationships
- Loneliness
- Stress
- Insomnia
- Self harm
- Depression
- Difficulty making a life decision e.g. leave a job or end a relationship
- Low self esteem
- Childhood trauma
- Addiction
I have specialist experience in Early Developmental Trauma, Adoption and Attachment, families, mothers and infants, body and movement.
Virtual Therapy
Melanie uses Zoom if you'd like to meet from the comfort of your own home and to ensure distance or country is not a barrier to access therapy from me.
I work with a whole spectrum of needs and goals and find that therapy is all about the trust in the therapeutic relationship, once trust is built, the therapy really begins and the desired change can come. I follow your pace and respond to your needs as they arise.
The work could involve talking and/or creative media. It all depends on what works for the individual. I respond moment to moment and always follow your pace and preference. My priority is creating safety and trust. I work with the whole person, feelings my arise and be felt in the body, we can work with this as well as speaking.
Training, qualifications & experience
- I trained with PTUK, Leeds Beckett University from 2014 and qualified in 2018.
- I have been working with Catchpoint CIC as a Creative Attachment Therapist offering family and individual therapy.
- I have specialist knowledge and experience with Early Developmental Trauma and Adoption.
- I also work in schools across Bristol and have a home practice is Easton, Bristol.
- I am also a trained movement practitioner from 2004-2021 Developmental Movement by Veronica Sherbourne, level 1 and 2.
- I and experienced in working across the age range from mothers and babies through to young people and adults.
Before becoming a therapist in 2018, I working in education as a primary phase teacher, with a specialism in Early Years. I have a PGCE in Primary education, with 3-5 years specialism from Bath Spa University College in 2004.
I have worked therapeutically with children and families internationally. I spent 2 years working in Thailand and Asia.
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
Fees
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
I welcome a no charge first meeting, no obligation on the phone.
My fees range from £55 for one to one work, increasing to £80-150 for family work.
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When I work
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Fortnightly Mondays 1pm - 7pm
Tuesday 9.30am - 2pm
Wednesday 9.30am - 7pm
Thursday 9.30am - 3pm
