Riccardo Carosi
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About me
Hello there! I am Riccardo, a Psychodynamic Counsellor based in Hexham. I just moved to this town and am looking to find a location to deliver face to face sessions. Right now, am working exclusively online through Google Meet, WhatsApp and by phone. Monday to Friday AM/PM
With 15 years’ experience of working with adults and young people, through my work I offer a skilful, warm and passionate approach to help and guide clients to make sense and explore difficult feelings and to achieve a better quality of life.
Whether you are dealing with anxiety, struggling in your relationships, experiencing low moods and a sense of isolation or perhaps you are not happy, not fulfilled and you feel like life goes on in autopilot. Whatever your reason, together we can make sense of it in a safe and non-judgmental space, and through counselling I will help you find meaning and understanding.
My way of counselling combines Psychodynamic therapy, which will help you understand how your current feelings and behaviour are shaped by your past experiences, with Person Centred therapy, which is a talking therapy approach aimed at helping you gain control of your life through finding the courage and self-esteem needed. By facilitating the expression of inner thoughts and feelings, our relationship will help you process and understand your emotions better. You will learn to find and recognise your emotions, to understand and accept them, and to act in ways that will influence them and change their intensity.
Working through and processing your life experience will empower you in coming to terms with the sources of distress, clearing up confusion and enable you to identify who you really are and, in time, fulfil your own emotional needs. Through this type of counselling, you will gain a better understanding of your relationships, allowing you to make sense of why you act and react in the way you do and it will provide long-lasting strategies needed for positive changes.
In these fifteen years, I have gathered extensive experience in working with:
Anxiety
Relationship problems
Family issues
Depression
Bereavement and loss
ADHD - ASD
Going through boarding school outcomes
Low self-esteem and low self-confidence
Trans/Gender Diverse - LGBTQ+ counselling
I offer a free phone consultation where you can share the reasons for wishing to start counselling. Weekly sessions are 50 minutes long, however the initial session will be a longer one (up to 90 minutes at the same cost of a 50 minutes session) as it will give me the opportunity to ask several questions about your background and give you a significant opportunity to get to know me and experience how we both feel about working together.
Counselling for Young People:
Alongside my work with adults, I am fully trained in working with young people. I have been emotionally supporting YP for over 15 years in diverse educational settings. Alongside my private work I am employed by the charity Barnardo’s where I specialise in working online with children from the age of 7 up to 19.
These are some of the issues I deal with on a regular base:
Anxiety
Bullying
Isolation
Family issues
Loss and illness in the family
School attendance
Gender identity and LGBTQ+ related issues
Self-harm
Suicidal thoughts
ADHD - ASD
The isolation during the lockdowns, the aggressive social environment and the extensive use of social media are some of the reasons why the level of children and adolescents suffering from anxiety has risen dramatically. The consequences are varied, from missing school to self-medicating, to experience physical pain through self-harming, not feeling able to going out and socialise. Therapy (face to face as well as online therapy) can deliver safe support and emotional benefits.
I believe that having the ability of engaging adolescents is critical in maximizing the success of any therapeutic intervention. The skill of engagement it is something that I have acquired by working with adolescence in many different settings, online therapy providers, secondary schools and an independent school with trauma informed and attachment aware status.
Engaging this age range in Counselling is especially challenging and there are several reasons for this. Most therapeutic models are based on treatments that work for adults. These methods are frequently not effective in engaging adolescents because of their developmental immaturity, the stigma many adolescents associate with therapy, and adolescents feeling forced into it.
My clinical knowledge about therapy process, children and adolescent development, and their interactions is what guides me in working with this population. Engaging young people and establishing a strong therapeutic alliance require therapists to express empathy and genuineness, utilize developmentally appropriate interventions, address the stigma, and increase choice in therapy.
Feedback to Parents/Carers
In order to develop trust, it is important to offer young people confidentiality, so I do not give detailed feedback following sessions. However, I offer a meeting with parents/carers approximately every three months from the start of therapy, so to discuss how the intervention is progressing. When we review the sessions, I will give general feedback about themes that have arisen.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a accredited member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and abide by their Code of Ethics.
Qualifications:
- Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling – The Counselling Foundation, St Albans. BACP accredited
- Place2Be L4 in working with Children and Adolescents - Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB)
- Completed 5 years supervised clinical training of internship hours
- Attachment Focussed Therapy (AFT) Certification – Barnardo
- Triple P - Primary Care - Qualified provider- University of Queensland, Australia
Trained in the following therapeutic approaches:
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Person-centred Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Attachment Focussed Therapy
Where I work at present:
Alongside running my Private Practice, where I work with diverse people of any age gap, I am a Barnardo’s therapist for the ‘Link Support Service’. This service does provide counselling to young people who are facing additional challenges to their emotional well-being as well as those from families affected by relatives with Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
Past experience:
Previously I have spent a decade working for two charities, Place2Be and The Children Society, as a School Counsellor in four Primary Schools in London and an Academy Secondary School in Essex.
I also worked as a school counsellor for The Open Box Education Center in Epping, which is a trauma informed and attachment aware independent school for KS4 (year 10/11) students. This school provides bespoke care and nurture based on the understanding of the neuroscience of trauma.
In addition, I have volunteered and worked for over 10 years with different organisations, including Broxbourne Adult Counselling Centre and NSPCC/Childline.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. 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
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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
£60.00 per session
When I work
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At present my only availability is for online sessions. As I work with long and short referrals, my availability changes frequently and it is always updated
Further information
Initial Assessment meeting information:
I work on Google Meet, WhatsApp and phone. Firstly, we will arrange a time and day for an assessment. This initial meeting last around 90 minutes, when we will discuss what led you to seek counselling, some of your life experiences and what your expectations/aims of our work together might be. If you feel that you would like to enter into regular sessions, then we arrange a time and day which is dedicated to you and our work together. Our 50 minute sessions are weekly. I offer open ended or short term Counselling.
For young people, a similar process will take place and the assessment with the Parents/Carers will last approximately 1 hour and will focus on the young person. Together we will discuss the present situation and the Y.P. background. The presence of the young person is not needed during the initial meeting.
If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to arrange an initial consultation, please feel free to contact me by email: rckcounselling@gmail.com or phone: 0781 7565837 or simply use the email button on this page. If I can't be reached immediately, I will get back to you as soon as I can.
