Robert Atkin
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hello and welcome. My name is Robert and I am an experienced, qualified and registered integrative therapeutic counsellor who appropriately uses a variety of recognised and trusted modalities to adult meet clients' individual needs.
I offer confidential, safe, empathic, and non-judgemental support for both long- and short-term counselling, bound by the BACP Ethical Framework, whether via face-to-face sessions in my home which is between Putney Heath and Wimbledon Village, online or on the phone, or even outdoors walking and talking on the Common.
For any number of reasons, you may well be apprehensive at the thought of having counselling and you may well have summoned considerable courage even to consider taking this step. To help in your decision to find the right counsellor for you, you are welcome to a no-cost initial 20-minute online or phone session with me where you can sound me out and tell me as much as you wish to at this stage of what you hope to gain from counselling as well as ask any questions you may have.
My sessions are 50 minutes in duration and I encourage clients to attend on the same day and at the same time each week for at least the first few weeks as this helps build your trust in the process as well as our working relationship. This said, I fully understand people's lives are busy and I am as flexible as possible to meet your work and family demands or when unexpected events arise.
In time, you may wish to reduce the frequency of your sessions or bring them to a close completely, safe in the knowledge that my door will always be open for future counselling. At no time is there an obligation for you to continue our sessions together and you can stop attending at any time if you wish.
If you decide to have counselling with me, our first full session will include establishing the basis of our working relationship, recognising the ethical and safe nature of our work, beginning to explore what has brought you to counselling and discussing ways we can work on these.
As our relationship develops, we will have regular reviews to assess where issues have or have not yet been explored as well as those newly arising and any barriers in the process. I never work beyond my professional competency and if I feel I am not equipped to assist you I can signpost you to a more specialised service or refer you although, with the latter, never without your agreement.
Please be assured that from the outset you will be heard and acknowledged as a person in your own right. I will do my utmost to put you at ease in a caring, confidential, and bound environment that feels safe for you and where you feel valued.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a registered Member of the BACP. I undergo mandated regular supervision, frequently partake in continuing professional development and assist in delivering counselling courses. This ensures that my expertise is maintained and developed and, as importantly, that your safety and well-being remain central to our work.
My training, skills, and experience in listening to and supporting others in exploring their concerns come not only as a qualified counsellor but also as a past Samaritan and from working with adults with complex needs from all backgrounds and circumstances.
I work non-judgmentally and empathically with a wide range of life issues including addictive behaviours and OCD, recreational and problematic substance and alcohol use, anxiety including phobias, depression, suicidal ideation ranging from abstract thoughts to definite plans, loneliness and isolation, relationship dynamics, career direction, trauma from any stage of life including abuse in all its forms, problems arising from childhood, attachment concerns, bereavement and other forms of loss, being a victim of crime and also from having a criminal record.
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).
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fees are £70 per 50 minute session (£50 for L4+student counsellors).
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I am available from 9.00 am on weekdays, except Tuesdays when I have no availability, with the last sessions starting at 7.00 pm on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and at 4.00 pm on Friday.
Further information
Off-road free parking is available outside my home and the 93 bus service Albemarle stops are close by from where it is a 10 minute journey time to the centres of either Putney or Wimbledon.
Prior to the first full session, I send clients directions to my home and some initial paperwork for my records.
