Pete Askew
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About me
With twenty five years experience in the helping professions, I have helped men and women of all ages, and from a wide range of backgrounds. My clients come to me for help to work through challenging experiences at work or at home, or get to the root of repeating patterns of thinking or behaviour which have troubled them throughout life. This has included:
- Feelings such as anxiety, depression, anger, shame, and grief
- Relationship issues
- Work related stress and burnout
- Life changes such as marriage, parenthood, divorce, retirement, bereavement, and new beginnings.
- Traumatic experiences
- Early life or recent experiences of abuse, including sexual, emotional, institutional, spiritual, and domestic.
- Questions of meaning and purpose.
My clients describe me as a grounded and insightful person with whom they feel safe sharing their problems, and helpful in enabling them move forward in their lives.
Whatever you bring to me, I will listen to your story with care, respect, and without judgement. Guided by your personal needs and values, I will create a tailor-made therapy to help you be curious about your life and its problems, and grow in your own understanding about what is troubling you. We will explore together what healing and change might look like in your life, and how you might experience these things for yourself.
I offer short-term and long-term therapy, in person and online. The therapy I offer is integrative humanistic and is person centred, incorporating techniques and theories from CBT, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, Jungian, and Existential therapies.
Contact me by e-mail or phone and I'll be happy to have a conversation to talk about what you are looking for from therapy and how I can help you.
Training, qualifications & experience
My experience working in the helping professions over the last twenty years has included providing therapy in NHS and charitable contexts, as well as through my own private practice. I have also ran a retreat house offering individual and group retreats for those wishing to explore life issues and challenges, and supported leaders with local and national roles in charity, business, religious, and civic contexts.
I have had particular success in working with men and women who are experiencing a cross-roads or significant change in life, and those who are seeking to understand and change long held beliefs about themselves or repeating patterns of behaviour.
A number of my clients have had recent or historic experiences of abuse, including sexual, institutional, spiritual, and domestic, and this is an area of work that I am passionate about.
I am qualified at Masters level in Pastoral Ministry and Theology, and I trained as a therapist at the Northern Guild in Newcastle for qualification as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor.
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
Face to face sessions at my therapy room in Morpeth are charged at £60 per 50 minute session.
Online sessions are charged at £60 per 50 minute session.
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