Sarah Alford

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location_on Redruth TR15 & TR16
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About me

I am a fully qualified Psychosynthesis counsellor and trainee psychotherapist at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London.

Psychosynthesis is primarily a talking therapy and shares commonalities with person-centred, humanistic and integrative styles of counselling. The focus is very much on gentle, empathic and compassionate enquiry, building up a sense of safety and trust within our relationship to facilitate the exploration of your life experience and the feelings and emotions that may arise in response. 

Psychosynthesis has its roots in psychoanalysis and pays attention to the unconscious, helping you to discover and learn about deeper psychological patterns, mindsets and beliefs that might be playing out in your present life as a result of your childhood experiences. 

Psychosynthesis is not a religion, but recognises and acknowledges a spiritual core, higher self or divinity, allowing you to explore historical wounding as well as more existential enquiries around deeper identity, meaning and purpose. Questions such as "Who am I in the universe?"

Overall, Psychosynthesis is about relationship - coming back into a relationship with yourself, with others and with your spiritual nature.

Sessions can include brief reflective or guided meditations if that feels comfortable for you.

Sessions are 1 hour, and are weekly due to the nature of the modality.

I offer both short-term (6-12 weeks) and longer-term contracts.

After an initial free phone consultation, my first session is then 90 minutes which provides a time for us to get to know each other, to briefly hear about what has brought you to therapy, and to discuss any needs or requirements that you may have. If you decide that Psychosynthesis is right for you and that you'd like to work with me, we can contract for a further 6 sessions and go from there. I will take some contact details and go through the contract with you, allowing you the time to ask any questions as they arise.

With permission, sessions are recorded for training purposes. If you don't feel comfortable with the recording of sessions or have any questions you need to ask about recordings, please let me know as this is also something we can discuss in the initial session.

Training, qualifications & experience

  • Diploma in Psychosynthesis Psychology - Institute of Psychosynthesis, London
  • Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling - Institute of Psychosynthesis, London
  • Diploma in Psychosynthesis Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy (In progress) - Institute of Psychosynthesis, London
  • Level 2 & 3 Certificate in Person-Centred Counselling Skills

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

My special areas of interest are loneliness and feelings of isolation or separation from others, shame, low self-worth, rage, anger and depression, spirituality and psychic phenomenon. I also have experience of substance misuse and dependency.

Therapies offered

Fees

£45.00 per session

Additional information

Concessions are available for students and low-income

Cornish Therapy Centre, Forth Noweth, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 1AU

Blue Lotus Therapy Centre, Workshops, 2/3 Scorrier House, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5AR

Type of session

In person
Online

Types of client

Young adults (18-24)
Adults (25-64)

Online platforms

Google Meet
Whatsapp
Zoom
Sarah Alford
Sarah Alford