Polly Hockaday
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About me
Hello, I am Polly, I am an experienced registered and accredited BACP person-centred counsellor. I qualified over fourteen years ago and have several years of experience working in NHS Primary Care. I offer a professional, calm, supportive and confidential space for you to discuss and reflect on what is troubling you. Together we will set out to build a therapeutic alliance and carefully explore what has brought you to counselling, at your own pace, to try to understand and make sense of what is going on. I aim to support you, constructively and compassionately, to find your own answers or way forward. I receive regular clinical supervision to support my work and am committed to ongoing and continual professional development.
As a registered accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), my work is in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Accredited and registered member of the BACP
- Diploma in Person Centred Counselling
- Certificate in Counselling
- Post Graduate Certificate - Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Cruse Foundation course in Bereavement Care
- DBS enhanced check
- BACP OU Working Online course
- An introduction to Theory and Practice of Compassion-Focussed Therapy
I worked for several years as an Primary Care counsellor in GP surgeries and therefore have experience of working with a very broad range of issues including relationship issues, depression and anxiety. I have also worked closely with bereavement and loss as a Cruse Bereavement volunteer for five years. I currently work solely in Private practice.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£55 per session
Sessions are one hour
Please give 24 hours notice for cancellations or full fee will be charged..
When I work
Please contact me to discuss availability.
Further information
I will respond to your enquiry as soon as I am able to.
