Rosie Summerhayes
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This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am a counselling psychologist, with over 25 years of experience, who offers you a safe confidential space where you can work on any aspects of your life that are troubling you.
I work with difficulties like depression, low mood, feeling emotionally overwhelmed, anxiety, panic, stress, grieving, workplace problems, trauma, and childhood or relationships difficulties. You might have past or present experiences affecting you, or you might feel confused in knowing what the problem might be.
It can feel hard to find our way forward from difficult circumstances, events, thoughts, emotions, and behaviours on our own. I will be alongside you, without judgement nor expectation, to listen and help you to have greater understanding of what might be causing your difficulties, so you can identify what you can change, and how you can manage what you cannot change.
I offer an initial conversation without charge, for you to meet with me and for us to decide if further meetings would be the most helpful way forward for you. If we decide that something else might be more helpful I will advise you on where you might seek that help.
I also offer supervision to qualified counsellors and facilitate reflective practice groups for counsellors, counselling psychologists and psychotherapists.
Training, qualifications & experience
· BSc (Hons) Counselling and Psychology – University of Surrey
· Diploma in Psychological Counselling – Roehampton University
· MSc Psychological Counselling – Roehampton University
· Diploma in Cognitive Analytic Therapy – St Thomas’ Hospital/ACAT
· Diploma in Trauma Therapy – Naos Institute
· Certificate in Online Counselling - OCST
· Certificate in Supervision - SDS
Additional training:
· Working with Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome
· Teaching Clients Mindfulness Skills
· Working with Cultural Difference
· Safeguarding
· Stress Management
· Effective Group work
· The Self in CBT and CAT - ACAT
I am a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HPCP, accredited by the Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy and a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I am also hold a Diploma in Trauma therapy and have further training in Supervision, Stress Management, Mindfulness and Online Counselling.
In addition to my experience of working with adults, I have facilitated group work and have considerable experience in working with young adults.
I have worked using a brief model of therapy, offering 6 to 12 sessions in the first instance, and then continuing in line with your need. We review our work as we go and decide together how long it might be helpful for us to meet. That might be a few weeks, a few months or longer. I have also worked using the CAT (Cognitive Analytic Therapy) model of 16 sessions.
Member organisations
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Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
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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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Student Counselling
Supervision
Fees
£80.00 per session
Free initial online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- Initial consultation – 30 minutes: no charge
- Individual Session – 50 minutes: £80
I have two places at any one time for low income or trainee practitioners: £65
When I work
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I work in private practice on Mondays and Wednesdays
Further information
I provide face to face counselling via video through Doxy or Zoom.
I meet with all new clients for an initial consultation for 30 minutes. This is to enable us to mutually understand what you are looking for from therapy and to decide if working with me would be most suitable for you. There is no charge for this consultation. If we decide it would be helpful for you, we will agree a time for our meetings, and I will ask you to complete pre-therapy documentation.
Following sessions are 50 minutes and it is usual to meet weekly at the same time and on the same day of the week.
