Sarah Hearn

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MNCS (Acc)
Available for new clients
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Rayleigh SS6 & Benfleet SS7
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

About me

I provide a safe, confidential, inspiring environment and can provide unique support through your journey to positivity and well-being. I will facilitate hope, emotional support and recovery.

I became a psychotherapist in the view of positively contributing my support to anyone who has experienced trauma, loss and grief, or any negative, unpleasant or confusing life experiences.

My objective is to move you forward into experiencing a better quality of life for yourself and subsequently positively affecting people surrounding you now and in the future.

To do this, I believe in working collaboratively with you, using a wide spectrum of psychotherapy not just rigidly applying one form but recognising and applying only relevant techniques unique to you.

Reality is perceived differently by everyone as our experiences and interpretations are unique therefore your treatment plan should complement this awareness.

I will appreciate your pace and level of understanding required for the therapeutic change to occur and appropriately apply interventions and skills according to your absorption and motivation.

I am willingly bound by the content of the BACP ethical framework.

Not seeking help for your own well-being can have a devastating effect on your life and subsequently on the lives of your family, friends and other people with whom you have contact with and who do not understand what you are actually going through.

I can help to restore your self-esteem, hope and facilitate a realistic pathway to feeling better. I can teach strategies and techniques which will help you to achieve and maintain a better quality of life.

I will facilitate positive change by providing a safe, confidential, non-judgemental and trusting relationship and environment in order to identify and explore;

  • Current thought patterns/negative thoughts
  • Triggers for negative thoughts and feelings
  • Unhelpful beliefs and negative predictions.

I provide structure and realistic collaborative goal setting for you. I can also help to show you that it is possible to have control over your thoughts which may subsequently have an adverse effect on your feelings and behaviour. I will give you the tools to help identify and change unhelpful or disruptive thoughts and actions, thus promoting the prospect of long term contentment with minimal chance of regression.

After just a few session, you can start to feel empowered, get your identity back and be able to make rational, positive and informed decisions.

Your journey starts here…

Training, qualifications & experience

  • Practitioner Diploma in CBT
  • Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Transactional Analysis, Person Centred, Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
  • Intermediate Certificate Course in Counselling Skills (including Loss & Grief)
  • Counselling Children and Young People
  • Safe professional and effective practice for counsellor & psychotherapist
  • Play therapy / Sand-Tray therapy
  • Starting to work creatively with clients
  • Addiction – What is it and how to work with it
  • Pain Management

Membership;

  • The BACP Individual Member (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy)
  • The National Counselling Society Accredited Member

Voluntary work:

  • Psychotherapist for OACS since January 2015

Member organisations

Registered / Accredited

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.

NCPS
National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)

The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society

This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations.

In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. 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

National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society
Accredited Register Scheme

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.

National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society

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Fees

£45.00 per session
Free initial telephone session

Health Insurance/EAP

  • WPA

Additional information

Individuals - £45 per 50 minute session

Couples - £55 per 50 minute session

When I work

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Afternoon
Evening
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Evenings and weekends

Rayleigh, Essex, SS6

Benfleet, Essex, SS7

Type of session

In person
Phone

Types of client

Young people
Adults
Older adults
Couples
Organisations
Sarah Hearn
Sarah Hearn