Nicola Ockwell Counsellor Shirley Croydon Surrey
Email me84 Woodmere Avenue
Shirley
Croydon
Surrey
CR0 7PE
07963 706198
About me
I am a BACP registered and insured Integrative Therapeutic Counsellor offeing a professional approach to each client. I offer a non judgemental safe, warn welcoming and condifential therapy. I work within the boundaries and ethical framework of the BACP.
I work with building a relationship and will tailor my approach depending on what the client needs are. I have a private practise for a homely environment. My approach is client led allowing the client time and space to explore their feelings and work together to understand what is going on and why. I use humanistic, CBT and psychodynamic modalities depending what might be most useful for each client.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have experience of working in a Secondary School with teenagers. I have also worked for Mind for three years with adults and for Place2be with young children working with play therapy and metaphor.
I have a Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling Skills for the NHS, backed by the BACP.
I have a certificate In Counselling Skills.
Additionally, I have completed training courses in:
- Working with Difference and Diversity
- Working with Secondary Aged Young People
- Gestalt (chair work practise)
- Hidden Harm
- Trauma (Counselling)
- Exitential Freedom
- Working Therapautically with HIV+ Clients
Member organisations
Accredited register membership
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- ADHD
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Anorexia nervosa
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- Attachment disorder
- Attachment disorder in children
- Autism
- Behaviour problems
- Bereavement
- Binge-eating disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career
- Carer support
- Child related issues
- Childhood bereavement
- Childhood bullying
- Children’s learning difficulties
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Dementia
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Depression and anxiety in children
- Disabilities
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug abuse
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gambling
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Hearing voices
- HIV/AIDS
- Hoarding
- Internet addiction
- Learning difficulties
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Psychosis
- Redundancy
- Relationship issues
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Separation anxiety
- Sex addiction
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Tourette's syndrome
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
- Young carers
Therapies offered
Fees
£40
Maps & Directions
Croydon, CR0 7PE
Type of session
| Online counselling: | Yes |
| Telephone counselling: | Yes |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
Practical details
| Sign language: | Unspecified |
| Other languages: | None |
Availability
I am available weekdays, evenings and weekends.
Types of client
| Children |
| Young people |
| Adults |
| Older adults |
