Sandra Kutner
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
- Is constant overthinking a result of your anxiety?
- Might your low mood and lethargy be a symptom of depression?
- Are you repressing challenging thoughts and feelings?
In challenging times you are more likely to engage with unhealthy habits that don't support your emotional health. Whilst this is likely to happen unconsciously, by exploring this in therapy, we can focus on the impact that avoidance has in your life.
Stress raises painful physical and emotional feelings. As a result you may have employed unhelpful coping strategies e.g avoidance, isolating yourself or overeating or drinking to numb your pain and bring you comfort.
I will support you to connect with your compassion and vulnerability (which believe it or not, is a strength) and over time you will develop a healthier feeling of self-esteem. You will start to notice a more positive impact on your confidence and self-belief.
What you can expect from our first Counselling Session
- To appreciate the positive impact of a therapeutic relationship; a safe space in which I want you to feel empowered to share with me what you have been keeping hidden internally.
- To understand that you will not be judged but that you will be heard and validated
- By the end of the first session you will know whether I am the right Counsellor for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Areas of Expertise
Anxiety:
Whilst a certain amount of anxiety is ok for us and can propel us iinto action, it can be unhelpful when getting to overwhelmed. You may lose your rational thinking and allow negative, unhelpful thoughts to take root. At its worst, showing itself in panic attacks which can be really frightening.
Together we will explore the triggers for your anxiety and how it manifests itself in your life. This may involve working both in the present and the past to understand how your life experience has shaped you.
Depression:
Together we will understand the cause behind your depression; how it manifests itself and the impact it has on your mind and body. Our work will focus on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Over time you be more able to take the control back in your life.
Stress/Work Related Stress:
Our aim is to explore how your stress impacts the mind and body causing an inability to think clearly. How unhelpful ways of thinking and being become habitual. I will support you in securing healthy strategies, and consequently putting you in the driving seat because it makes sense to you.
Loss:
I have worked extensively with clients traumatised by the loss of a loved one. Grief is unique to each and every one of us and as such each client will start their journey at a different place depending upon the stage they are at in their experience with loss.
Symptoms of loss are also felt in other ways :
- The end of a relationship
- Following the loss of a job
- Loss of independence
- Empty Nest (children leaving family home)
Short Courses:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Psychiatry, Psychopathology and Psychodynamics
- Time-Limited Counselling
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.
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
Photos & videos
Fees
£70.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
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Initial Assessment Session (1 hour) - £70
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Standard Counselling Session (50 mins) - £70
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*Block of 6 Sessions - £360 (equivalent of £60 per session)
*Six sessions rate must be purchased in advance
Concessions available: £45 per session for students and unemployed. Concessions day time only.
When I work
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Monday 10:00 am - 19:00 pm
Wednesday 10:00 am - 19:00 pm
Friday 10:00 am - 17:00 pm
Further information
Concessionary rates of £35.00 are offered for a maximum of 3 clients at a time.
