Ryan O'Kane
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About me
My aim as a counsellor is to help create a space for you to step outside the overwhelm of life’s demands, pressures and triggers, to make meaning of your life – the day-to-day, the deep discoveries, and the downright difficult. Hopefully, you will know if our work together is going well if you start to harness the stories and forces at play in your life, and to reengage with life’s possibilities – more peaceful, more skilful and perhaps even more playful.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a BACP registered counsellor trained in Psychosynthesis Counselling by the Psychosynthesis Trust in London. I currently offer psychosynthesis counselling in the Aberystwyth and mid-Wales area.
Most of my working life has been in small charities and projects – in communications, training and community development roles – supporting people to improve their local communities and environment. I have also been a university lecturer, looking at the broader patterns of society and environment that shape our lives. I am a trained mentor and facilitator who is still curious and excited about the dynamics and potentials of groups and communities. My path through these roles has brought me increasingly closer to the intimate and the relational – the immediate space in which personal and social transformation meet and unfold.
All these experiences and perspectives play a vital part in my approach to counselling, and my training in Psychosynthesis helps me to weave them together.
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
My approach is not to diagnose or pathologise your feelings - but to help you to contextualise and integrate them within your experiences - from family and cultural legacy to the political and ecological state of the world.
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My guideline fee is £45 per session. I am keen to provide counselling to as broad a range of clients as possible and I encourage you to be direct and honest about what you can afford, because I may have scope to lower my fees in some circumstances.
When I work
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I respond to email enquiries weekdays, 9am-7pm - though may not be available straight away. I will endeavour to respond by 7pm the next working day.
Further information
What is Psychosynthesis?
Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal framework for counselling and self-development. It emerged in the mid 20th century as a holistic alternative to psychoanalysis and attempts to support people to widen and deepen their experience of themselves and of being alive. It embraces a broad range of techniques and perspectives – mirroring the richness of human experience – imaginative, rational, emotive, physical and spiritual. It deals with the past pains, present challenges and emerging potentials of each unique life; seeing all as an integrated whole – from ‘acorn to oak’. The aim is to support people to find purpose in the wider tapestry of life – from family relationships to planet; to make meaning, express their needs and take action.
