Sarah Harvey

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Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (UKCP)
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location_on Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6
Accepting new clients
Accepting new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

About me

Are you feeling lost or stuck? Unsure who to talk to or how to move forward? Does it seem like everyone else has a manual for life while you’re going in circles?

I understand from my own counselling journey how frightening, draining, and isolating it can be to grapple with heavy emotions that feel too overwhelming to discuss with family and friends. I deeply appreciate how life-changing it can be to have a safe space to explore and process these challenging feelings, finding ways to move forward with greater clarity and understanding.

Whether you have a clear idea of what you want to work on or feel confused and uncertain, both are perfectly fine. Each person’s journey is unique, and through our relationship, we can gain a deeper understanding of what has been or is currently occurring in your emotional world.

Maybe you’re feeling the effects of isolation, loss of connection, anxiety, panic, stress, or depression. Perhaps you’re dealing with family issues, separation, divorce, or finding the symptoms of ADHD or menopause or other mid-life issues challenging. You may be suffering from bereavement or betrayal, or just generally feeling sad, lost, or unhappy. If low self-esteem or self-confidence is affecting you, I’m here to genuinely listen and work with you collaboratively to uncover your inner strengths and find a way forward. I offer a non-judgmental, safe space where we can explore your difficulties and long-held beliefs to cultivate new ways of working that foster empowerment, healing, growth, change, and personal development.

Sharing personal and possibly previously unshared information with someone new can feel daunting or unsettling at first. To help ease this process, I offer a reduced-price initial consultation and assessment appointment. This allows us to discuss what you might wish to explore in your sessions with me. If we feel we can work well together, we can arrange to meet weekly on either a short-term or long-term basis.

I have a particular passion for supporting those healing from emotionally abusive, narcissistic, manipulative, or toxic relationships. I also work with individuals who recognise their behaviour as emotionally abusive and want to actively work towards change, learning healthier ways of understanding and communicating their own needs.

Life can change with a single decision. Email me today, and let’s start creating the life you envision.

Training, qualifications & experience

I am a qualified online counsellor.

As a member of the PESI UK CPD Hub I am able to continuously keep up to date with their latest training presentations.

I am committed to furthering my continued professional development through reading, supervision, attending CPD events and undertaking online CPD.

I have completed UKCP Covid-19 Online Working Guidance

Some recent training I have completed includes

  • Attachment - Cradle to Grave: Intimate and Interactive Conversations
  • ADHD Certification Course - Strength-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD
  • Men and Therapy - Key Approaches to Working with Men
  • Trauma, Affect Dysregulation and Shame
  • Treating Trauma and Complex PTSD
  • Toxic Shame in Clinical Practice: Help Clients Release Shame, Get Unstuck and Improve Treatment Outcomes
  • Gaslighting: Help Clients Escape and Rebuild from a Narcissist's Emotional Abuse - Stephanie Sarkis
  • Narcissism and Intimacy: Coming Down from Grandiosity and Up from Shame - Terry Real - PESI UK
  • New Rules for Treating Trauma: Integrating Neuroscience for Resilience, Connection and Post-Traumatic Growth 
  • Attachment in Adults: How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships
  • Building Trust, Love and Loyalty in Relationships with John Gottman, Ph.D. & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D. - PESI UK
  • Making Relationships Work with John Gottman, Ph.D. & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D.
  • Narcissistic Relationships, Emotional Abuse & Gaslighting: Treating and Empowering Survivors of Relational Trauma - PESI UK
  • Emotional Abusive Behaviours and A Closer Look at Gaslighting: Clinical Tools to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Personal Power - PESI UK
  • Narcissism, Infidelity, and Trauma - Esther Perel and Terry Real
  • Complex PTSD Clinical Workshop - Arielle Schwartz
  • Social Anxiety: Step by Step Techniques to Overcome Fear, Shyness & Social Phobia - PESI UK
  • The Science of Trust and Betrayal -  John Gottman Ph.D
  • Me, Myself and I - Experiencing the World of the Inner Child - Samantha Lee
  • Trauma and Relationships: When Intimacy Feels Unsafe - Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
  • Qualification in Online and Telephone Counselling - Counselling Tutor (80 hours professional development - accredited by ACTO)
  • Dr Bessel van der Kolk's Trauma Treatment Mastery Course
  • Heal Your Heart After Grief - Help your clients find peace after break-ups, divorce, death and other losses - David Kessler
  • The Challenge of Uncertainty with Ernesto Spinelli
  • Working with Erotic Transference and Countertransference - David Mann
  • GDPR and BACP Ethical Framework Review
  • Human Toolbox Practitioner Training - Lindy Wheeler
  • Overview of UK Attachment and Trauma Congress
  • Personal Insights Into Attachment Theory - Richard Bowlby

Qualifications

BSc in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling from Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling from Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Diploma in Integrative Counselling from Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Certificate in Integrative Counselling from Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy

I have previously worked as a volunteer counsellor at:-

  • Life-Force Centre for Natural Well-Being in Colchester
  • Mentis Tree CIC in Bury St Edmunds

I am a Registered Member of UKCP.

I am a Human Toolbox Authorised Practitioner

Member organisations

school Registered / Accredited

Registered / Accredited

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UKCP
UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.

As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.

UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.

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

UK Council for Psychotherapy
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Areas of counselling I deal with

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Fees

£60.00 per session

Additional information

My fee is £60 per 60 minute weekly session which can be paid by BACS payment or by credit card prior to the session.

The initial 30 minute consultation and assessment session is £30.

Enquiries will be responded to as quickly as possible within my office hours - between Mondays and Thursdays. 

When I work

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Appointments available Mondays to Thursdays  

Sessions offered face to face or online via Zoom.

Further information

I offer face to face sessions from my home in Needham Market

Online sessions also available.

I currently have availability between 10am and 6.30pm (final appointment is at 5.30pm).

Type of session

In person
Online

Types of client

Young adults (18-24)
Adults (25-64)
Older Adults (65+)

Online platforms

Zoom
Whatsapp
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