Ruth Mackintosh
About me
I am an experienced counsellor with a passion for facilitating people to find their individual way through difficulties, anxiety, confusion, grief and pain.
I have experience and training to work with specialist areas including Sexual Abuse, involvement with extreme religious organisations, living with mental health difficulties individually and within the family. Facing dementia, Work place disruptions, and many other issues that can adversely affect life.
Confidential Counselling service based in Romsey
Counselling Supervision also offered - No current availability
Training, qualifications & experience
MA Counselling University of East Anglia 2006
Counselling Experience:-
University of East Anglia
St Barnabas Counselling Service, Norwich
Priscilla Bacon Lodge - Bereavement Support Service
Southampton University
Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, Eastleigh
The Olive Branch Counselling Service, Winchester
RASAC Winchester
Private Practice
Diploma in Clinical Supervision - Centre for Personal and Professional Development
Supervision Experience for organisations:-
The Olive Branch Counselling Service, Winchester
City College, Southampton
Private practice
Member organisations
Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Experience of Spiritual Abuse
Experience of Extreme Religious Organisations (aka Cults)
Availability
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Mondays, Thursday and Friday
Further information
I am an experienced counsellor and supervisor.
From 2014-2021 I was the Clinical Director of The Olive Branch Counselling Service in Winchester.