Sally Martin
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About me
I have a background in counselling adults dealing with anxiety, depression, loss, trauma, abuse, addiction and relationship difficulties. The process of working together can help ease distress, support you through your current situation and strengthen your capacity to be healthy in yourself and your relationships. I am dedicated to helping you achieve your goals, and we will go at a pace that is right for you.
Counselling is a collaborative process. I will ask some questions and listen with care to what is going on for you and encourage you to reflect on thoughts and feelings, gently challenging unhelpful patterns. It may be that you need space to explore a particular issue or pattern of behaviour that is troubling you. Or you may want to make a change. Either way, I offer a welcoming, professional and compassionate space to help you talk and feel at ease.
Please see my website for more information or get in touch at via email just here
Training, qualifications & experience
I have an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling (accredited by BACP) from the Iron Mill College in Exeter, a specialist counselling college. Additionally, I have trained with the Online Therapy Institute about safe therapeutic work online.
As a qualified Integrative Counsellor, I am a Registered Member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy), and follow its Ethical Framework, which helps to ensure counsellors and psychotherapists work professionally, with the safety and wellbeing of clients at the heart of our work.
From 2019-2021 I worked counselling clients for the charity Focus, in Bath and Frome. Before training to be a counsellor I worked in the arts and higher education. I also have experience, from 2013 onwards, working one to one as a specialist mentor with adults with autism at university.
I have regular supervision as well as full professional indemnity and public liability insurance.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
Additional information
- £40 per session, in person, in Frome
- £35 per session, online, via Zoom
- Sessions are 50 minutes and held weekly at the same time.
I am available online or in person, from accessible therapy rooms in central Frome.
Short-term therapy usually starts from 6 - 10 sessions, and whether you need short-term or longer term work, there will be regular reviews with your therapist.
It’s important to choose a counsellor who feels right for you. I am available via email, phone or Zoom to discuss your counselling needs, and I offer a free initial consultation to see if we would like to work together. This can help clarify what you want from counselling and give space to ask any questions you might have. It also gives me the chance to understand if I can be useful to you.
Further information
As an Integrative Counsellor, my approach integrates aspects of person-centred therapy with an understanding of the link between our past attachments and how we are in the present.
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
I look forward to hearing from you.
