Naomi Dawson
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About me
“It is when we start working together that the real healing takes place.” David Hume
I have Gestalt training which means I believe that everyone has the potential to find their own answers to their problems. Painful and difficult life events can block our self-belief which can obscure our ability to find solutions or sometimes we just feel ‘stuck’. I will work alongside you, helping you to raise your self-awareness and to see your situation more clearly. As Fritz Perls said “Awareness in itself is healing” as through heightened self-awareness we find that we have the choice to try something new.
I see our work as a collaboration together. I offer a confidential space, without judgement, where I will use my intuition and creativity to gently challenge and support you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Gestalt Counselling, MBACP
- Humanistic Counselling Certificate
- Experience working with actors and creatives in a leading UK drama school.
- Low cost counselling service with a variety of issues and diverse clients.
- 'The Listening Place' who offer free support to suicidal people.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Additional information
I also offer a number of low cost places, please enquire
Further information
My pronouns are she/they.
Although I encourage regular sessions with an agreed length of time, if you are working in the creative industries then I can offer a degree of flexibility.
