About me
Stepping Stones Wellbeing Hub has been an established service since 2017, and was founded by Rebekah, who is a UKCP Consultant Psychotherapist, Trauma Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist and Clinical Supervisor. Rebekah leads our service and is supported by a small senior team, including a Centre Manager at our consulting rooms in Worthing, West Sussex
Our team, which is formed of only the most committed, ethically minded therapists and wellbeing practitioners, provide counselling, psychotherapy, trauma-informed therapy, online EMDR, Mindfulness, Play Therapy, Creative Therapies, Couples therapy, Family Therapy, Counselling for Children and Young People, Gestalt psychotherapy and CBT, as well as a range of holistic therapies, for clients experiencing challenge from a wide variety of conditions and life experiences.
We provide low cost, high quality counselling, psychotherapy and wellbeing interventions for anyone who requires support, and our consulting rooms are welcoming, secure and safe for all who access them. Face to face sessions are held at our consulting rooms in central Worthing and we continue to offer online sessions. Online therapy includes email, IM and webcam sessions which are all provided via secure, encrypted platforms.
Therapists working within our service generally work in a '12 session model' but all decisions surrounding duration of sessions will be agreed in the assessment session, with both short and long term therapy being possible.
Sessions last for 50 minutes and are payable by card at the time of the session for face to face sessions, or at least 24hrs before for online sessions.
Our approach to therapy enables each client, as an individual, to process and work through thoughts, patterns of behaviour and life challenges, as well as meet times of crisis with a reflective mind.
Our work with people is focused upon enabling them to develop and improve their quality of life, and explore any problems and difficulties, whatever they may be caused by.
Life's stress can derive from a wide variety of sources including relationship difficulties, work pressures, family histories and dynamics, as well as social anxieties, self-esteem and image issues and other mental health difficulties. Human experience also often involves trauma and bereavement, which, when unexplored, can lead to noticeable relational difficulties in all manners of life, not just with those we are closest to.
Stepping Stones as a Placement for student counsellors
Stepping Stones is a recognised and respected training placement for counsellors, with students training alongside Rebekah and the team since 2018.
We accept applications via our website, where additional information can also be found regarding which training colleges we work with and our minimum criteria for potential placement students.
Due to Rebekah's proactive work within the industry, we have led the field in paying our students since 2021. Rebekah now acts as an advisor for additional local services who have also made the decision to recognise the value of students, as well as nationally within specific working groups.
We additionally provide UKCP / BACP recognised group supervision for our students, at vastly reduced fees.
Training, qualifications & experience
Our wider team
We only accept the most committed, ethically minded and professional practitioners to work at Stepping Stones Wellbeing Hub.
All of our team members work within our policies and procedures, and are expected to meet the highest standards at all times. As part of our team, they are committed to providing accessible therapies for a range of clients, including low fee sessions.
All clinical members of our team are trained professionals, who hold indemnity insurance and membership of a recognised accrediting body relevant to their profession. They also hold ICO membership, in relation to following GDPR regulations and invariably hold a DBS.
A range of documentation is checked by our Centre Manager, prior to our acceptance of a practitioner to work from our premises.
Students on Placement
Our student counsellors, who are known as Placement Counsellors, are all training with approved, reputable training colleges, and have been assessed by their tutors as being ready to enter practice with clients.
Students are interviewed by our Clinical Lead and a Supervisor prior to being offered a placement, and must provide copies of their insurance and accrediting body membership, as well as ICO membership.
Our students are required to attend supervision on a fortnightly basis, and are proactively supported in their practice throughout their placement.
Our Supervisors
Our supervisors are highly experienced BACP / UKCP Counsellors / Psychotherapists, who have completed post graduate, BACP approved Supervision training to work with individuals and groups.
Our supervisors remain in their own clinical supervision, which provides a platform to bring their supervision work for review on a regular basis.
Our Clinical Lead
Rebekah Jones, our Founding Managing Director and Clinical Lead, is a UKCP Consultant Psychotherapist and Trauma Therapist. She has a 30+ year history of working within the mental health arena, across NHS, charity and private organisations, as well as having taught for several well known universities as a Visiting Lecturer, Honorary Lecturer and Consultant Tutor.
She is qualified as a Clinical Supervisor for individuals and groups, and has been supervising students and qualified therapists since 2018.
Rebekah additionally holds a range of essential qualifications, including Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Data Protection and Risk Management awards.
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
£35.00 - £60.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£35 for a 50 minute individual session with a Counsellor in further training
£45 for a newly qualified Counsellor
£55 for a 50 minute individual session with a Senior Counsellor providing trauma-focused therapy (eg: TF-CBT, EMDR, MBCT, REWIND)
£60 for a 50 min couple / family session and psychosexual therapy
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