Richard Terrardo-Reardon
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About me
As a Therapist I will be right it the middle of the struggle with you. We'll look at what’s brought you to counselling so you can walk that bit easier and lighter in your life.
We can look at how your past and your understanding of it shapes your present day reality and experience, from this we'll see how you think about that history and how your behaviours are born, with an understanding that you do not need to keep on repeating the past expecting a different outcome.
As we sit together, you'll be in the driving seat as you take us along the various highways and byways that have brought us together. I have come to see over the years that change is born of trust, trust in yourself and your ability to reshape the horizon of your life, and this can take place through our connection, our working relationship. It would seem to me, the relationship is both the agent and means of change. If trauma took place through a relationship, then healing needs to take place within a healthy relationship. Safety isn’t the absence of threat, it’s the presence of connection, and I work hard at connecting and remaining connected.
I've seen from my own life and my own experience of counselling that change is a process, and it's neither simple or straightforward, but I have seen how this compassionate space transforms life. Together we can ask those questions that cause us to wonder if I am allowing my life to speak. I'll be right with you as you claim your right to live abundantly.
I work on a weekly basis if possible, as that has been proven to be most effective. You can call me if you would like to talk about your initial interest and what it is that's bringing you to therapy, we can then arrange a time for our first session. Please drop me an email if you would like to ask me anything.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP).
I’ve have been a qualified Integrative Therapist since January 2014 completing both a post-graduate certificate in counselling skills and post-graduate diploma in therapeutic counselling (Level 7). Having trained at the Caerleon Campus within the University of South Wales I started accompanying clients in September 2012. This was initially with a charity in Newport, Gwent, called Sesame Counselling, I worked with Sesame until January 2016. During this time I also volunteered with The CCSW, The Church’s Counselling Service in South Wales, whilst also having my own private practice.
Over these nine years I have accompanied people over both a short and long period of time, depending upon their need. Over this time I have worked with Childhood Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Physical Violence, Depression, Anxiety, Addiction, OCD, Attachment Issues, Suicidal Ideation, as well as people who are looking to reshape their lives, desiring more than they are offering themselves, fed up of a limiting self-imposed life. Meaning making has also been a central part of my work where we reconsider old truths and and well worn stories we tell ourselves about our lives as we search for a freer identity, a more generous, compassionate story about the journey of our lives and the slings and arrows we all meet in this life.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Meaning Making
Sexual Abuse
Thoughts around suicide
Grief
Anger
Rage
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Therapy sessions are charged at £50, lasting around 50 minutes. There are concessions for Trainee Counsellors at £35 for 50 minutes
When I work
I am currently available on Monday Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for face to face counselling in a comfortable room in Windsor that has toilet facilities. I also use Zoom.
Further information
I have just secured a well lit, warm, private room in Windsor, some 5 minutes from the centre of town.
I am also working remotely with clients on a nation wide basis.
