Shally Kolawole
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About me
My speciality as an accredited Counsellor in the UK, is using CBT to work with and support young people, families, and individuals. I help them to understand their trigger points, and identify healthier ways to manage their emotional difficulties and trauma. I have used my work to support people with a variety of mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, low mood, lonliness, isolation, OCD, PTSD, work difficulties, relationship problems, bereavement, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and much more. I have also, spent a lot of time supporting people who have experienced emotional and physical abuse. My model is professional, holistic, empathic and non-judgemental with a focus on CBT, Person-centered, Humanistic, Integrative and psychodynamic. I listen to clients and treat them with respect, and provide them with a safe space to feel heard. Together with the clients, we devise a strategy that reflects on their individual needs and goals. It is my ethos to build trust, encourage clients to be themselves, to focus on their strengths, values, and positive outlook on life. Through commitment and engagement, the clients learn self compassion and the feeling of empowerment.
I look forward to working with you, and giving you the tools to understand yourself, your traumas and how they affect your day to day living, whilst discovering new ways of challenging unhelpful ways of thinking, and changing your story.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
- Level 4 Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Level 2 Certificate in Mental Health Problems
- Level 2 Certificate in Self-harm and Suicide Awareness and Prevention.
- Certificate in Integrative Counselling
- Certificate in Basic Counselling
Experience:
- Shaw Trust
- Job Coach/Counsellor/Mentor
Responsibilities:
Job coach role modelling, providing constructive feedback, giving support to individual interns, and demonstrating how to succeed in particular areas of the job requirements. For example,
Through role modelling, show the young person how to make phone calls, deal with enquiries, and how to be a professional in the workplace.
Counselling/coaching and mentoring the young people. Using the CBT model to work with the young person, to understand their mental health challenges, and provide emotional support to help build their confidence,self-esteem and develop better emotional coping mechanisms.
Woodford Children’s Contact Centre
- Counsellor and Family liaison support worker
- September 2018 - February 2019
Responsibilities:
Identify and minimise risk.
Using the CBT and intergrative models, to counsel young people and their families.
Partnership liaising with external bodies (MASH, LADO).
Student Mentor and Counsellor
Docklands Community School (11- 16-year-olds)
Supported students with emotional challenges.
Provided 1 to 1 support to students to help them to identify the underlined reasons for their emotional traumas
Through the use of targeted goal setting strategies, I worked with the students to help them to identify and manage their emotions safely.
Team working with colleagues to share information, and to determine next steps.
Provided feedback to the safeguarding lead and raised concerns in a timely manner.
Accurate record keeping of student’s attendance, accidents and incidents.
Liaising with parents and carers, to keep them abreast of the student’s progress.
Making phone calls and dealing with enquiries. Organising face to face and online meetings, and making contact via email to ensure the smooth running of the provision.
Working together with the young people to help them understand their triggers, set goals, and realise their potential.
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
£65.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Free initial, 15 minute telephone consultation for potential new clients.
Free initial, 15 minute online consultation for potential new clients.
Fees may vary during bank or public holidays
When I work
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Further information
Professional Training:
- Safeguarding and prevent duty at work, risk assessment, health and safety at work.
- Home-start supporting families under stress.
First-aid at work.
- Certificate in-training with Newham Youth Offending Team.
- Mentoring for care leavers Certificate.
- CBT workshop
- Child Protection course
