Paul Wadey M.Sc M.Res PGDip PGCert GradCert DipClinSup Registered MBACP (Accred)

Training, qualifications & experience

I am fortunate enough to be able to call upon over ten years post-qualifying experience gained from work with adults, families and young people in acute in-patient and community settings.

Leading up to and during this period I self-funded myself through a rigourous programme of academic and clinical study; M.Sc Psychology (Essex), M. Res Psychoanalytic History (Goldsmiths), PGDip Couns (Goldsmiths), PGCert Systemic Practice (Beds) and GradCert Systemic Practice (Birkbeck) (please see my website for a more expansive list).

I underwent an initial four-year clinical supervised core-training in Psychotherapeutic Counselling at the Unit for Psychotherapeutic Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, which ended succesfully in 2003.

After core-training I began reading for a two year Research Degree in Psychoanalytic History within the same department at Goldsmiths.

A couple of years passed followed by a resolution to undertake a second masters degree, this time in Cognitive Psychology with Neuropsychology.

Since 2011, I have undertaken two highly specialised Systemic Therapy trainings in working with Couples and Family therapy.

Speaking now as an experienced psychological therapist, counsellor, systemic family practitioner and psychoanalytical historian I believe that my professional and personal learning alike has been informed by and benefitted hugely from practical, clinical and academic contexts equally.

My private practice was formerly based in and around SE London (i.e. Lewisham & Catford & Soth Norwood) and Kent, where I worked as a HI therapist and substance counsellor from the late nineties with young people at risk, young adult offenders, vulnerable adults and BME client groups presenting with complex social and behavioural problems. Since 2007 I have practised as a counsellor/psychotherapist in and around Colchester.

Other notable experiences have been formative for me; I have held the post of principal visiting lecturer, module leader and academic tutor in psychology and counselling for four years at a prestigious medical college based in Hampstead, NW London.

I also had the pleasure to undertake the role of lecturer and trainer in counselling (Level 2 to Level 4 and BA Hons) for foundation degree and undergraduate degree studies in South Essex.

Similarly, in my work as a senior manager / senior clinician - working within the public (NHS) and charitable sectors - I have held service manager posts for IAPT psychological services, Supporting People services and worked with numerous charities and social enterprises.

In 2012 I began working in a CAMHS service in North Essex as a systemic family practitioner based in an acute-in-patient and PICU (T4) setting working with young people, their families and carers.

Since 2015 I have held my private practice in Nayland, Colchester.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Couples therapy, couples counselling, family therapy, family counselling, Relationship issues, Psychosexual issues, Counselling for anxiety, Counselling for depression, Parenting issues, Psychological education and executive development as well as clinical supervision.

Further information

In my counselling & psychotherapy practice I strive to maintain deep and sustained emotional contact with individuals, families or couples, whilst also maintaining a high degree of reflexivity to the demands made by modern living on those whom, like so many today, urgently need to find someone well-qualified and experienced with which to build a genuine and trusting therapeutic alliance.

Professionalism, ethical practice, strict confidentiality and discretion are assured. I hold professional memberships with the British Psychological Society (MBPsS), British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (MBACP), Association of Family Therapy & Systemic Practice (AFT), and British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).