About me
ABOUT ME.
Hello, I'm Sarah, a professional, trained counsellor with over 22 years' experience helping many people navigate life's twists and turns. Whether you're facing anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, trauma, family stressor teenage challenges - Sarah at the Talkroom provides a space to feel heard, understood and supported.
There's always light at the end of the tunnel, even if it's hidden from clear view. Together we'll find that light - and explore those hidden bits as we go.
I work with neurodiverse and neuro typical clients aged 13 to 113 and offer support with:
- Anxiety, stress and depression
- Relationship and family issues
- Abuse, trauma and grief
- Self-esteem and personal growth
- Teenage challenges, ADHD and Autism
- Long term emotional concern I also offer "Walk & Talk therapy in a private woodland near Ashford - for clients who may benefit from nature's healing presence.
INITIAL SESSION.
Your first session is a gentle starting point. We'll explore your story, your goals and what makes you tick. It's a chance for you to relax, feel safe and see if we are a good fit. No pressure - just space to begin.
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
I'm trained in psychodynamic counselling, enriched with person -centred techniques and other evidence based approaches, including neuroscience to enhance your understanding of your mind. We'll work not only to understand what's going wrong, but why - so we can build meaningful, long-lasting solutions. Appointments are usually available within 72 hours of contact. I offer flexible hours between 8am and 8pm, Monday to Thursday. Sessions are £45 and last 50 minutes.
The first step is reaching out - after that, you're not alone. Please feel free to email, text or call and we'll talk about how how I can support you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training
Basic counselling skills certificate 1999
Certificate in Counselling attained 1999
NCFE Diploma in Counselling attained 2002
Extra training has included:
- Neuroscience Academy training for professionals
- Local sociology.
- Anxiety and depression.
- Grief and loss.
- Working with trauma and dissociation (training ongoing)
- Drug and alcohol use and abuse.
- Working with survivors of Rape and sexual abuse
- Creative play therapy.
- Children and teenagers in Education.
- Working with children and teenagers.
- Child protection and Safeguarding.
- Relationship counselling
- Working within the therapeutic frame and holding.
- Self Injury, Self harm and suicide.
- Understanding autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
- Working with Novel Psychoactive Substance users.
- Working with Guilt and Shame.
- Working with attachment and addiction.
- Cybertrauma
- Asperger's women and girls.
- Understanding Asperger's
- Mindfulness
- Trauma
- Understanding and working with ADHD
- Working with PTSD
- Working with trauma in a time of trauma.
- CPCAB Creative counsellors Ecotherapy Walk and Talk training.
- Working with Complex grief.
Experience
Sarah has had 20+ years of supervised counselling experience in voluntary organisations, FE colleges and private practice dealing with a wide range of issues and individuals from age 13.
Sarah has a special interest in working with abuse, addictions, anxiety, depression and relationship issues and working with teenagers, especially those with diagnoses of ADHD and ASD.
Understanding where and why problems happen is key to helping people overcome the effects and enables them to build a better, more positive life.
Sarah is a BACP accredited counsellor an also holds a registration with them.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Self-esteem issues.
Anger
Abuse issues
Shame
Trauma
Depression
Therapies offered
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Fees
£45.00 per session
Additional information
£45 for adults and children per 50 minute session, to be paid in advance of each session. If you would like to have a chat over the phone prior to our first session, I'm happy to do that upon request. (No charge)
When I work
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Further information
As well as working face to face in a dedicated room, I am also able to offer walk & talk therapy in a beautiful area of privately owned woodland close to Ashford which is secured and not open for public use. It is only occupied by other professionals who are running various enterprises in the area. I firmly believe in the benefits of enhancing our work with nature as a co-therapist and the fresh air, trees, flowers and wildlife can all work together to help calm troubled minds and provide an ambience that helps us achieve clarity and perspective while dealing and exploring our issues.
IF THIS IS FOR YOU, PLEASE MENTION IT TO SARAH WHEN YOU FIRST MAKE CONTACT WITH HER.
