Mike Jackson MNCS (Accred) counsellor

Training, qualifications & experience

I am a qualified Counsellor to Diploma Level 5, accredited with National Counselling Society and have been working supporting and counselling people in the charity sector and in private practice for a number of years.

Throughout my career I have worked with men and women for a range of different reasons that they wanted to come to talk about.

I have worked supporting people with a terminal illness, those caring for people who have a terminal illness and supporting those family and friends after someone has died from a terminal/life limiting illness.

I have background in working with the adolescents that have an Autistic Spectrum Condition.

I also have experience with bereavement counselling, ​counselling people that have been carers and also young people and adolescents.

Other areas of training I have carried out include:

• Mental health
• Trauma
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Suicide Prevention Skills
• Therapy for men
• Obsessional Compulsive Disorder – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Counselling Children and Young People
• Cutting edge Connections between Spirituality & Psychotherapy
• Vicarious Trauma
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Working with people who Self-injure

I have worked for Mind in Taunton and West Somerset supporting people with mental health conditions. I have also worked for Marie Curie supporting those with terminal illness and their families. I have gained experience providing counselling at St Margaret's Hospice in Taunton supporting those through bereavement, Carer's Trust Phoenix in Weston-Super-Mare for people who care for others and also supporting young people in a school environment in Somerset.

Further information

Feel free to contact me by phone or email and we can discuss further what you would like to do.

We can have a chat on the phone and if appropriate we can arrange for our first session to see if you feel it is right for you and then look at a weekly session slot that is suitable for both of us.