Nicola Ockwell
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About me
A unique experience awaits...
I provide a calm, rewarding and creative space for reflection and thoughtfulness, with you in mind. This life changing experience may well be challenging at times but growth can only occur when challenges are met and overcome. However, you will not face these alone.
How can this be achieved you ask?
By providing a warm and nurturing environment that develops the relationship necessary for personal growth and improved well being.
By offering
- Initial assessment session
- 50 minute weekly sessions
What you can expect
I have a wide range of experience and professional skills so will explain the process happening with some psycho education. However, my approach is client led and will go at your pace so will be tailored to your needs.
Also working with
- developing coping mechanisms
- breathing Qigong
- working creatively
My Ethos involves
With a genuine, congruent and authentic way of being I value and validate your narrative which hopefully will eventually lead to peace and tranquility initially within the room and then within yourself.
Based in Shirley in a homely environment
I have a private practice 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.
My client history involves working with clients who have experienced
- depression
- anxiety
- hoarding
- domestic violence/gaslighting
- relationship difficulties
- addiction
- bullying
- low self esteem
- Diversity
- trauma
Although there are no guarantees in life, in my experience clients who have completed sessions with me have made life changing enhancements to their lives.
Training, qualifications & experience
Having recently left Mind the mental health charity following six years of service I worked with a varied client base which includes complex cases.
- working with teachers and students in a school environment
- clients from the police, fire and ambulance service
- Carers
My qualifications
- Post Graduate Diploma - Integrative Counselling Skills ( NHS, BACP)
- 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)
- Existential Freedom
- Working Therapeutically with HIV+ Clients
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
£60.00 per session
Additional information
My fees may vary from stated above if they are for insurance or agency work.
When I work
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I am available weekdays and some evenings although these are more popular.
Further information
I am affiliated with the PFOA
