Sarah Blunden

Hi, my name is Sarah Blunden and I am an accredited counsellor with the BACP. I provide counselling for adults and children and counselling supervision within the Stoke-on-Trent area.

I chose to become a counsellor because I have had many personal life experiences that I feel helps me to empathise more with all I work with. Not that what I have experienced will have the same effect on me that it has on you. We're humans. We experience things differently. There is no right or wrong way with how we deal with the trauma or stresses we live with, but when it starts having a negative impact in our daily lives, that’s when we look for better ways to cope.

So why choose counselling?

Sometimes we get to a point in our lives where things happen or creep up and we literally do not know where to go, who to talk to and how we can make things better.It is a very big decision to start counselling. It is talking about things that make you feel sad, lonely, depressed, anxious, angry, confused etc. and sometimes its talking about things that seem that long ago, it is not worth dragging it back up again. When in reality, it has always been there affecting your life in some way, you might not have recognised it.

Counselling is a safe place where you can talk to someone who does not know you. This can make it easier because the counsellor has no emotional attachment to your life, and will not judge you or tell you how you should be living.

What I offer.

The counselling I provide can be both long term and short term.

My main counselling practice is Person Centred Therapy, which focusses more on how you feel. I do not offer advice or give diagnosis. I will support you in making your own decisions.

I do use various methods when I am counselling because I recognise sometimes people find it difficult to talk. It all depends on what works best for you, when we are working together. Some like to draw while talking, some like to write, some like to use objects to describe how they feel, others just like to talk. It is all about what makes you feel more comfortable.

I also provide counselling supervision to support other counselling practitioners who have a client caseload. I work from the seven eyed supervision model.

I offer an initial brief phone call for free, so we can discuss what you want to achieve from counselling and ways we can work together, from there it will be £50.00 per 50 minute session for adults and children under 18 years of age.

I offer a rate of £45.00 per session for students (over 18) and OAPs.

For students studying a counselling course, where personal counselling is a requirement it will be £35.00 per session.

Each session is normally the same time each week, on a weekly basis, either short term or long term.

Couples counselling £60.00 per 50 minutes..

Counselling supervision is £60.00 for 90 minutes, based on the BACP requirement of once, every 4 weeks.

The counselling student supervision price is £25.00 for 1 hour, based on the BACP requirement of 1 session every 2 weeks. 

I can offer face to face appointments from October 2023.

I offer telephone and online appointments. 

Online support is offered by Skype, Whatsapp, Google Duo, Zoom.

I also offer walk and talk appointments locally.

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