Richard Benton
About me
I am a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist and have worked in the field of mental health for over 35 years. I providing a wide range of psychological interventions. I work with both individuals and couples.
I also provide clinical supervision to both students in training and qualified therapists and work as a clinical supervisor for other counselling services.
Training, qualifications & experience
I worked for 38 years for the Local NHS mental health service before setting up in private practice, my qualifications are:-
Post graduate certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. (University of Birmingham).
Post graduate Diploma in integrative Psychotherapy. ( University of Central England, now Birmingham City University).
Post graduate certificate in Clinical Supervision. (University of Derby).
Qualified Mental Health Nurse.
Member organisations
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
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
For Therapy sessions £48 per 55 minute session.
For Clinical Supervision £40 per hour.
Some concessionary rate available.
