Sarah Barnsbury
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hello, I’m Sarah. Perhaps you’ve been through a challenging time recently, and you’re feeling anxious or low. Perhaps you have a feeling of stuckness or that things aren’t quite right. Or maybe you’ve been through something traumatic in your past that seems to affect you in your relationships with others, or with yourself.
Within the safe and confidential boundaries of our therapy sessions, I offer the opportunity to discuss and explore your feelings and to help raise awareness of what it means to be 'you', both within relationships and on your own.
Anxiety, perfectionism, low self-esteem, social anxiety and many other issues can all get in the way of us being who we truly are and living the life we want.
I am an integrative counsellor which means I use different approaches depending on what you find useful. With my core training in Psychosynthesis Therapy, I can help you make connections between the past and the present, to reveal more choices for how to live your life in the future. We always go at your pace.
Initial Contact
After initial contact by email, we share a complimentary 15-minute phone call or video call to help us confirm if working together feels right. During this session, I will ask what brings you to therapy, why now, and what your intentions for therapy will be. I can also answer any of your questions the time allows.
Working together
Once we decide to work together, we create an agreement for our work. This could be open-ended or with a limited timeframe of 6-12 sessions. This agreement will include T&Cs around confidentiality, data protection, attendance and payment. Periodically this will be reviewed, such as if moving from time-limited to open-ended work. We then meet once per week at a set time of 50 minutes.
Ending
You are under no obligation to continue to work with me if you feel it’s time to end, however, endings are important, and I suggest we take between 1 – 4 sessions to explore endings for you and to integrate our sessions together.
Ethics
I am registered with the BACP and practice under the BACP's Code of Ethics. I hold professional insurance, and also engage in regular supervision and continued professional learning. Our work is confidential, and I manage your data in line with GDPR. I work with people from a wide range of backgrounds and stand for inclusion across gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, culture, class, religion, and opinion. I will always do my best to understand each client’s life from their own perspective, and I have worked successfully with people with experiences very different to my own.
Training, qualifications & experience
I became a counsellor because I want to help people have better relationships with others and themselves. I trained in Counselling at The Psychosynthesis Trust after a career as a highly experienced people manager and mental health advocate. I currently work both privately and as a Counsellor at a GP Practice in Wandsworth.
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
Fees
£45.00 - £60.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a set number of low-cost, time limited sessions to those on low or no income, key workers and adult students. These appointments are £45 per weekly session and available online weekdays, with blocks of 6 - 12 sessions. Please get in touch for more information.
When I work
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I currently have in-person availability in SE1 on Tuesday mornings and in SE15 on Wednesday mornings. I have greater availability for online sessions - please get in touch for times.
