Penny Maddrell MA UKCP
Email meAbout me
Psychotherapy involves a confidential professional relationship which aims to offer you a safe space to explore what is going on for you. Some concerns can be easier to bring to therapy than to share with friends or family. It can also be an opportunity to explore your life and experiences and reach a deeper understanding of yourself.
My training was based around mindfulness as well as psychodynamic understanding and psychotherapy skills. Mindfulness means directing our attention to what we are experiencing in the present moment, without judging it. Doing this in therapy can help to loosen painful or limiting strategies we developed in the past, allowing us to live with more choice and ease.
As well as thinking and talking about our experiences, in psychotherapy we can also attend to body sensations and feelings we cannot immediately find words for, as well as what we dream and images that occur to us. Whatever comes up can turn out to be meaningful, even when it doesn’t seem to make any obvious sense.
Location: off Barton Road/A603 - easy to reach by car from Junction 12 of the M11, or a 20-minute walk from the centre of Cambridge.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been working with clients in private practice for 11 years and am registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
I trained at Karuna Institute in Devon between 2003 and 2009, leading to an MA in Core Process Psychotherapy. My continuing professional development since then has included a 12-day training in working with trauma (Babette Rothschild) as well as seminars and lectures in psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic work.
Areas of counselling I deal with
I have worked with adults aged between early 20s and late 60s facing a wide range of life situations and challenges.
Fees
My fee is £50 per session.
Further information
Ben jij Nederlandstalig?
Mijn moedertaal is Engels maar ik heb in Nederland gewoond en ik versta goed Nederlands. Je kunt daarom gewoon Nederlands met me praten als je dat wilt. Ik zal waarschijnlijk (deels) Engels terug moeten spreken, maar misschien is het voor jou prettiger om je in je eigen moedertaal uit te drukken.
Maps & Directions
Cambridge, CB3
Type of session
| Online counselling: | No |
| Telephone counselling: | No |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
| Home visits: | No |
Practical details
| Sign language: | No |
| Other languages: | Dutch (see profile) |
Accessibility
| Wheelchair access: | No |
Practice room on the first floor. Stairs have one hand-rail.
Types of client
| Young people |
| Adults |
| Older adults |
