Monika Sobczak
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About me
If you struggle with life challenges, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, or low self-esteem...
I offer a non-judgmental, supportive environment to work through your thoughts and feelings and start living a life that is more fulfilling to you. You will have a calm and confidential space and time to identify the changes you want to make and develop the skills you want to maintain these changes.
I have experience working with a broad range of issues and see each client as unique. I understand the difficulty you might find talking about your deepest concerns, but therapy is about you- knowing where you are, how you got there, and the choices you can make to change things. Options that may have seemed impossible before.
Please contact me to book a short, free online consultation, where I could answer your questions.
I work mainly with adults and young people over 12 years old. .
Training, qualifications & experience
I became a qualified counsellor in May 2020 and started supervised private counselling practice as a member of BACP and BABCP. I am also working as an integrative counsellor at JHD Counselling Services supporting individuals from teens through young adults and adults with a wide range variety of presenting issues as anxiety, depression, identity (including culture and sexuality, ability), neurodiversity, relationship issues or self-esteem.
Since September 2023 I have started tutoring for the same organization where I have gained experience of leading, supporting and developing trainee counsellors. Teaching theory, skills and facilitating the process for students to become trainee counsellors to qualification.
I have a master’s degree in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Counselling (Short term brief psychodynamic therapy).
Through my own challenges and experience, I have been supporting people in crisis over the telephone and face to face through volunteering opportunities like Lifeline, Cruse Bereavement or Cogwheel Trust. I work with different EAP’s supporting adults and young people in mental health crisis often affected by self-harm, suicidal ideation or plans by identifying coping strategies, creating safety plans, offering emotional support, and signposting to further resources, but also holding a person-centred space for clients to understand their autonomy and feeling fully heard and seen, to exploring and building wellbeing and selfcare into their day to days lives.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer, a free 30 min initial session so that we determine if we would like to work together. After that, sessions are 50 min, and the rate is £60 per session.
When I work
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Further information
At the moment I offer sessions online or by telephone
