Melissa Barber
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About me
Life can be challenging. We can feel like we’ve lost our way or even lost ourselves. Sometimes, being with someone independent of your life, circumstances and relationships can be the best way to put things into perspective.
As a qualified, BACP accredited counsellor I can offer you the attention, patience and space required to help you to work out what is really going on for you; a place of clarity and new possibilities. I offer daytime and evening appointments.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training
Practitioner Certificate in Couple Counselling
MA Psychodynamic Counselling
Diploma Integrative Therapeutic Counselling
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Experience
Prior to training to become a Counsellor I worked in marketing and business strategy. I have also worked as a pastoral manager, supporting both students and parents in secondary education. Outside of my private practice, I have worked at Arc counselling and at the Sandhurst Counselling Service.
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
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
£55.00 per session
Additional information
My fee is £55 per individual session and £65 per Couple session paid by bank transfer before each session. I offer an initial 15 minute introductory phone consultation which I arrange on your first contact.
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Day time and evening appointments available; currently I have limited availability as shown above.
