Michele Blockley MBACP(reg) L5 Dip Psyc Couns CYP
About me
A very warm welcome to you and thank you for accessing my details.
Choosing a Therapist
To help and see if I am the right person to offer you the support you need, I offer a free, introductory, twenty minute telephone consultation. If you would like to proceed we will arrange a convenient time for a first session. I can offer you a safe, confidential, comfortable counselling space to enable you to talk about what you are finding difficult at the moment. Sometimes if the words are just not there, we can use creative tools to explore what is happening. The choice is always yours.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. In addition to obtaining my general adult counselling qualification I have undertaken further training in the following:
- Working with the bereaved (Cruse Bereavement Care)
- Counselling skills with children using the arts (Institute for Art and Therapy in Education, Islington)
- Psychotherapeutic counselling with children and young people (Ocean Counselling Training, LLP, Rochester)
My private practice is located in Hook, Hampshire, just off the M3 at junction 5. Parking is available on the driveway.
I offer short and long term therapy to adults, children and young people. I balance this whilst working in a local secondary school as a School Counsellor.
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, I am able to offer online counselling via the platform 'Zoom' to teenage and adult clients. Face to face work has been suspended at this time (April 2020).
How can counselling help?
I am a Humanistic Integrative Counsellor. This means that I can offer you an empathic, non-judgemental, confidential counselling relationship where I will help support you to achieve your unique potential, empowering you to help make change happen through looking at your self development and your ability to make different choices. We will gently explore your feelings and emotions and help you to gain a greater understanding of yourself.
Please see my website for further information on how I practise and the counselling available: https://micheleblockleycounselling.com/
Training, qualifications & experience
- BACP Registered (233909)
- I am a member of the specialist divisions within the BACP of Private Practice and Children and Young People
- Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling - Working with Children and Young People
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Adults)
- Certificate in Counselling Skills with Children Using the Arts (IATE)
- Ascentis Level 2 Awareness in Bereavement Care: The foundation course
- NCFE Level 3 Award in Counselling Skills and Theory
- I hold an up to date enhanced DBS Certificate for working with children
- I have appropriate professional liability insurance
Member organisations
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
My extensive experience in working in Schools, in a variety of roles, has fuelled my passion for working with children and young people as they face the many difficulties and challenges of the modern age.
Therapies offered
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Fees
Individual Adult sessions (50 minutes)
£55, Monday to Friday, day 0900 to 1700
£60, Monday to Thursday, evening 1800 to 2000
Child/young person session under 18 years of age (50 minutes)
£60, Monday to Friday
Child/young person session under 18 years of age (50 minutes)
£70 Saturday morning 0900 to 1130
Assessment appointment with parent/carer (up to 1 hour) £60
Review meeting with parent/carer (up to 30 minutes) £30
Concessions available for counselling trainees, please contact me to discuss.
