Ryan Bennett-Clarke
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About me
Services provided:
- Individual Psychotherapy (Psychodynamic /Integrative)
- Clinical Supervision
About the therapist:
I hold an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute (SPTI) and am an accredited Integrative Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
As of August 2018 I completed my Clinical Supervision training at The Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute and hold a Diploma in Clinical Supervision. I supervise both trainees and qualified psychotherapists.
I hold a BA Hons degree in Social Sciences: Psychology from Nottingham Trent University and hold a Post Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing from the University of Nottingham: School of Nursing. I have also worked as a Registered Mental Health Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) at HM Prison Nottingham and within various NHS healthcare settings.
I have experience of providing counselling and psychotherapy to male, female and Trans clients (aged 18 and over) around the following issues:
- Abuse (sexual, physical, emotional, neglect)
- Addictive behaviours
- Anger
- Anxiety and panic
- Attachment difficulties
- Childhood difficulties
- Confidence and self-esteem
- Couples Psychotherapy
- Depression
- Domestic abuse
- Eating disorders
- Envy
- Gender
- Grief and loss
- HIV
- Identity
- Jealousy
- LGBT affirmative
- Male on male rape
- Personality difficulties
- Relational-Developmental Trauma
- Relationship difficulties
- Self-harm
- Sexual Abuse (Childhood and adult)
- Sexual difficulties
- Sexuality
- Survivors of harassment and stalking
- Stress
- Trauma.
It is important that the therapy that you engage with feels right for you and meets your needs. If at any point during therapy you feel that this is not the case, we can discuss this openly and explore other options that might feel more suitable. The most important thing is that you feel supported, comfortable, able and wiling to engage in a therapeutic relationship that best meets your needs.
As a therapist, I have a specialist interest in the area of Stalking and Envy and working with the psychological impact it has on its victims, as well as trauma work with survivors of abuse, HIV, Relational-Developmental Trauma, male sexuality, sexual difficulties and sex addiction, and Couples Psychotherapy. My model of psychotherapy is Integrative with a Psychodynamic core.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute (SPTI) and am an accredited Integrative Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
As of August 2018 I completed my Clinical Supervision training at The Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute hold a Diploma in Clinical Supervision. I supervise groups, individuals, trainee, and qualified therapists.
I also provide part-time hours at The Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute in Nottingham as a Clinical Skills Tutor on the BSc Humanistic/Integrative Course.
I receive regular clinical supervision from an experienced psychoanalytical psychotherapist & supervisor for my Private Practice work and I have undergone my own personal psychotherapy with a UKCP qualified psychotherapist, as required by the UKCP and SPTI MSc Integrative Psychotherapy training course.
From 2009 I worked within the NHS and have vast experience of providing weekly counselling and psychotherapy sessions to a wide range of clients with a variety of emotional, relational and mental health difficulties. As well as having significant experience of working with heterosexual clients, I also have vast experience of working with male clients who identify as gay and bisexual, and integrate a gay-affirmative approach in to my practice.
From 2013 I worked in a GP practice within Nottingham City providing short-term and medium-term psychotherapy to a wide range of clients experiencing a vast array of mental health and personality difficulties. Since 2010 I have built a successful private practice.
Since 2016 I worked for IAPT Services (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) providing intensive short-time dynamic therapy and Couples Psychotherapy to a wide variety of clients with mental health and emotional difficulties.
I also had extensive experience of working within the NHS as a forensic Community Psychiatric Nurse within a prison environment by providing mental health support and therapeutic interventions to a wide range of patients experiencing a broad range of mental health difficulties and/or diagnosed personality disorders. He also has experience of working within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services as a Mental Health Nurse.
Member organisations
school 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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
As a psychotherapist in private practice, I work Integratively with a Psychodynamic core, and have a specialist interest in the area of Stalking and Envy, and working with the psychological aftermath it has had on victims/survivors in order to facilitate healing within the survivor. I have two articles published in the Journal of Psychodynamic Practice in 2022 on this subject:
The Insidious Dance of Love & Hate: An Examination of Envy and Greed in the Stalker-Victim Dynamic Part One: Theory
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14753634.2022.2039880
The Insidious Dance of Love & Hate: An Examination of Envy and Greed in the Stalker-Victim Dynamic Part Two: Clinical Application
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14753634.2022.2039881
I have also featured in a Podcast series called "Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri" discussing psychotherapy related content:
Podcast: Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri - Discussions on Envy with Ryan Bennett-Clarke:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/conversations-with-annalisa-barbieri/id1567190358?i=1000649146839
Podcast: Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri - Discussions on Self-Sabotage with Ryan Bennett-Clarke:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/conversations-with-annalisa-barbieri/id1567190358?i=1000661100767
I have been involved in a collaborative project with Kidscape, a UK charity which supports children and young people who have been bullied. The advice and guidance videos can be found on the Kidscape website, Instagram page, and on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPq2N1zEpuE
I have extensive experience and CPD training in the areas of trauma work with survivors of childhood sexual abuse; male-on-male rape and sexual abuse; People living with HIV; Sexuality ; Boarding School survivors (male and female); Relational-Developmental Trauma; Mindfulness and Couples Psychotherapy.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
Cost of a regular therapy session and duration:
- £60 per individual Psychotherapy session. Psychotherapy sessions will last for 50 minutes. It is important that therapy sessions begin at the agreed time and finish on time.
- Unfortunately no concessions are available for trainee counsellors or trainee psychotherapists at this time.
- £65 per supervisee for Clinical Supervision sessions lasting for 60 minutes (£97.50 for 90 minutes)
* All sessions must be paid for on the day of therapy or in advance by either cash or Bank Transfer.
Cost and duration of the initial consultation:
- £75. This session will last for 75 minutes, the reason for which is outlined below. This fee is to be paid on the day of the initial consultation.
It is important that you feel comfortable engaging in a therapeutic relationship that feels right for you and meets your needs. The initial consultation will last longer than an ordinary therapy session and will give both you and the therapist an opportunity to see if you can work constructively together. The session will consist of:
- Opportunities for you to articulate some of your main worries and concerns;
- A chance for you to explore what some of your hoped for goals for therapy are;
- An opportunity for the therapist to understand and explore any mental health history that you may have, your personal history, childhood experiences, family history, relationship history, and any other significant experiences that you have had throughout your life.
By obtaining as much information as possible in the initial consultation session, I aim to bring together some of the threads of your past and present experiences and therefore place your current difficulties within an historical context. The subsequent sessions will be somewhat less directive and will continue to provide a safe and flexible space for you and I to work together to explore and make sense of what is troubling you and to find self and healthy catharsis for your emotions and process.
When I work
Tuesday (09:25 - 18:00);
Wednesday (09:25 - 18:15)
Thursday (09:25 -19:00);
Friday (09:25 - 18:30)
