Oriana Scalzulli
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About me
Welcome
You might be here because you are experiencing emotional difficulties, struggling with stress or relationships. You might be feeling like your life doesn’t correspond to you anymore and you’re not sure where to start to make changes. Or you might be trying to find your own voice or to navigate major life transitions.
Whatever the reason bringing you here, I offer you a safe and confidential space, where you can feel heard and supported in exploring any issue that matters to you.
My approach
I will focus on expanding your awareness, as I am convinced this is key to living more fully and to making the changes you wish to make. By working collaboratively with you, I will help you identify unhelpful patterns, and develop new resources and behaviours.
In my work, I adopt a Gestalt approach. This is grounded in a holistic view of the human being as a whole of mind, body and environment. This enables me to include a sensitivity to embodied, social and cultural aspects into my practice.
Depending on your interests, you will have the opportunity to use creative methods of exploration of the themes that you wish to bring into therapy, from the use of imagery to attending to body movements and sensations.
Training, qualifications & experience
My training
I am fully qualified and hold a Clinical Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapeutic Counselling.
Additionally, I am working towards an MSc in Gestalt Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute, London.
I am a member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), of the UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy), and of the UKAGP (UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners).
I adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions, to the UKCP Code of Ethics and Professional Practice and to Metanoia Institute’s Code of Ethics and Conduct.
My experience includes offering counselling and psychotherapy both privately and within an NHS setting and working both on an open-ended and short-term basis.
Alongside my work as a therapist, I lead a team of counsellors within an NHS IAPT service.
My background
I have a background in Social Anthropology and have always been interested in how social and cultural factors play a role in an individual’s life. In particular, I have examined processes of personal and collective creation of meaning.
This now emerges in my therapeutic work – I can offer you a space to identify or re-examine your own sources of meaning and value. I have a personal lived experience of intercultural dynamics, with their potential for both disruption and growth.
As a long-term mindfulness meditation practitioner, I naturally integrate a non-judgemental and open observation of what is happening in the here-and-now into my therapeutic practice.
Primary Qualifications
Clinical Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapeutic Counselling
Graduate Certificate in Humanistic & Psychodynamic Counselling
Postgraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethno-linguistics
Undergraduate degree in International Studies and European Institutions
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Life transitions
- Existential issues
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
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Further information
I offer weekly sessions.
Short-term and open-ended contracts are available.
