Patrick M. D. Hunter
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About me
With practices in Chichester and Southsea I am an experienced Person Centred Counsellor/Psychotherapist, a BUPA Provider, and Accredited with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I work with adults, individuals, couples and groups on a short medium or long term basis. Within my practice I also offer Counselling & Clinical Supervision and Experiential Group Work. As well as private referrals I receive referrals from organisations offering Employee Assistance to businesses & corporations. I also work at Chichester University as a Senior Lecturer.
Other experience has included working as Counsellor/Psychotherapist within a PCT GP Practice and an NHS Trust Mental Health Day Centre; as a Group Facilitator for a Families Project in Brighton and for a NHS Mental Health Day Centre in Hove; as a tutor at City College Brighton & Hove.
As a Counsellor/Psychotherapist my aim is to offer you a space and a relationship of trust and safety to enable you to begin to explore feelings, attitudes, beliefs, values, pain, difficulties and to meet and explore confusion, fear, new found awareness and or life changes that may come about.
I hold a belief in the Person Centred approach and that offering the core conditions of Unconditional Positive Regard, Empathy and Congruence enriches and supports a therapeutic journey toward deeper levels of self awareness, self acceptance and clarity, enabling a life led more closely to own values and beliefs. As well as the Person Centred approach, my work is influenced by, and I may use techniques from, CBT, Gestalt and T.A., as well as more creative/expressive approaches including art and movement.
Training, qualifications & experience
2015 Certificate in Group Work
Gestalt Centre, London.
2012 Certificate Couples Counselling
Wealden Institute, Crowborough, with Stephen Richards
2010 TA 101
Wealden Institute, Crowborough, with Joanna Beazley-Richards
2009 Introduction to Dramatherapy
LC&CTA, Lewisham, with Maya Gagni & Shirani Situnayake
2008 Certificate in Person Centred Supervision
Psychology Matters, with Dagmar Edwards & Mike Worral
2007 City & Guilds 7407 Part 1 & 2 Teaching Qualification
City College Brighton & Hove
2007 Certificate in Group-Work Skills
Wealden Institute, Crowborough, with Stephen Richards
2005 BACP Accreditation
2002 HND Counselling, Person Centred. (BACP Accredited)
Lewes Tertiary (now Sussex Downs College) - Sue Creenan & Chris Jones
2000 Level II Certificate Counselling
Lewes Tertiary with Sue Anacreon and Carmel Kelly
Over the years of my professional practice I have attended many workshops facilitated by many of the leading names in the Person Centred Approach worldwide.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My Fees
Individuals £ 50.00 per hour (negotiable*)
Counselling
Students £ 35.00 per hour (negotiable*)
Couples £ 80.00 per hour
Groups £ p.o.a.
I review my fees annually in April and give advance notice of any fee increases to existing clients.
I am happy to offer a low cost 20 minute meeting for those wishing to meet prior to starting work together.
(* If you would like to engage in Counselling and cannot afford this fee, please feel welcome to make contact and negotiate a fee - I am completely open to this).
I offer concessions, and my fees to all clients are negotiable.
(* contract for minimum of 6 sessions required)
When I work
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Monday and Tuesday - Chichester . Friday - Horsham .
My Practice times are 11.00am til 4.00pm* (*latest start time)
