About me
Integrative counselling for trauma recovery, safety and change.
I provide integrative counselling for adults who are living with the effects of trauma, domestic abuse, violence, difficult relationships, loss, stress or other overwhelming experiences.
My counselling practice is informed by the belief that many of our reactions, coping strategies and relationship patterns were learned for a reason. They may once have helped us survive, stay connected, avoid danger or manage experiences that felt impossible. However, a programme that protected us in the past can continue running long after circumstances have changed.
My book, The Programmes You Live By, is central to the way I understand this process. The book describes how repeated experiences can create internal programmes: familiar patterns of thought, emotion, body response and behaviour that may activate automatically when we encounter particular triggers. Counselling can help you recognise these programmes, understand what they were designed to do, consider their present-day consequences and practise safer, healthier alternatives.
You are not your programming. You are the person who can notice it, understand it and begin to update it.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have over 10 years of experience in providing counselling.
I hold a Master's degree in Sociology.
Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Ad. Dip. PsyC).
Diploma in Hypnotherapy (Dip. Hyp CS).
CMI Leadership and Management Level 5
Skills for Justice, Level 5
I am a member of the National Counselling Society and the Chartered Management Institute, IAAI and UKAFI
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Violence risk assessment and prevention
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Additional information
The fee for one session is £70
When I work
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Further information
Client Testimonials
E.L.
"The sessions I undertook with Rafal provided me with a number of invaluable benefits. Firstly, I was offered space to discuss sensitive issues and was listened to as an equal, with empathy and candour. Rafal, understanding my concerns, then worked to empower me with a toolkit full of skills that I can use to my advantage for the rest of my life."
Nnena
"Rafal is an gifted psychotherapist who gave me practical ways to focus on my goals and disengage with my anxieties where other counsellors and psychotherapists had failed."
Rosemary K.
"I am amazed at the positive impact this has had on my life. I am able to now self hypnosis when feeling stressed or in pain and these symptoms in fact lessen each time I do this. Raf is an amazing teacher as well as therapist"
Garry M.
"I’m really glad to have participated as it feels like lasting change has been achieved."
