About me
My name is Rebecca and I am a qualified counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
I believe deeply in the power of the therapeutic relationship to help heal past hurts and release the potential within us all to change for the better and move forwards in a healthy and full life.
I have experience working with many areas including domestic abuse, sexual abuse, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, childhood abuse, trauma, miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death, bereavement, grief and relationship difficulties. I am also experienced in leading support groups to facilitate self-empowerment, including assertiveness skills, healthy boundaries and practical tools to change unhelpful patterns of behaviour.
Before training to become a counsellor, I worked for many years as a journalist, an experience which has aided my ability to sit with others and truly hear them in empathy and kindness.
Personally, counselling has changed my own life immeasurably and I want to share this healing with others. Your journey towards inner peace and self-acceptance begins today.
I offer sessions either face-to-face from offices near Barnstaple, north Devon or online.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP)
- Foundation Degree, Integrative Counselling, Iron Mill College, Exeter (Level 5) BACP accredited.
- Introduction to Counselling Certificate (level 2), On Course South West, Plymouth
- Certificate in Mental Health First Aid
- Certificate in Online Counselling
- Certificate in working with Children and Young People
- Certificate in Domestic Abuse counselling
- Certificate in working with self-harm
- Certificate in mindfulness
- BA hons Politics, University of Durham
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £65.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Fees are £50 for individual sessions and £65 for couples.
Further information
Counselling provides a safe space each week to be truly heard and validated. All emotional states are accepted and held within the boundaries of the therapy session. You will develop a greater understanding of yourself, relationships and the impact of past experiences on your life today, behaviour patterns and emotional responses.
You will learn the tools to create the life you want and cope with any challenges you may face - helping you become the best version of yourself and able to fulfil your true potential, regardless of your current situation or past difficulties, loss or trauma.
Work can be short term (a few sessions) or long term (a few years) depending on what you want to bring and how deeply you want to work.
I work integratively, which means I tailor the therapy for the client and not the client for the therapy. I believe there are many ways to help understand and explore the way we think and feel, and no one theory holds the answer for we are all unique. At the heart of my practice is the client and what works for them.
Types of therapies I use include:
- Humanistic
- Psychodynamic
- Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)
- Person-centred
- Transactional Analysis
- Existential
- Mindfulness
