This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Thank you for finding your way to Heartful Psychotherapy
My name is Sarah Malyon. I am a fully UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist. UKCP provides the gold standard for psychotherapy and counselling quality and assurance.
In addition to private practice, I have over 20 years NHS experience offering psychotherapy and counselling in Nottingham.
My experience and specialist areas:
I have worked in a range of settings, including Statutory NHS Mental Health Services, Local Authority Looked After and Adult Care Services, Voluntary Sector Services including a Retreat Centre, Staff Wellbeing, Private Psychotherapy Practice and in a hospice.
I am also currently involved in research through the University of Cambridge looking into the efficacy of mindfulness for carers with low mood.
I have extensive experience helping with all the following areas:
- Anxiety/Stress/Burn Out
- Low Mood/Depression
- Trauma
- Shame
- Loneliness
- Life transitions and loss brought about through illness, divorce, changes in family circumstances, job pressures or bereavement
- Anger and Frustration
- Feeling `stuck’
- Relational issues
- Pressures associated with caring responsibilities
- Emotional dysregulation
- Using mindfulness to support awareness, self compassion and change.
- Working with neurodiversity
- Positive and welcoming around diversity in all its forms
Training, qualifications & experience
My qualifications and continued professional development (CPD):
- BA (Hons) Social Policy and Administration (Nottingham University)
- MA Social Work (Nottingham University)
- Post Graduate Diploma Integrative Psychotherapy (Birmingham University)
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Parts 1,2 and 3 (Richman Training)
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Teacher Training (Nottingham Centre for Mindfulness)
- Mindfulness for Adolescents and Carers (MAC) Teacher Training (University of Cambridge)
- Mindful Self Compassion (Sharpham Trust)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with Children, Young People and Families (Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health)
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Essentials (Association for Psychological Therapies)
- Working with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (University of Reading)
- Working with Complex Networks (Association of Family Therapists)
- Maximising Life Chances: Understanding Autism and ADHD (SDU, Nottingham City)
- Emotional Abuse Advanced Training (Nottingham Area Child Protection Committee)
- Trained in Freedom Programme and Freedom Beyond for survivors of domestic abuse
- Working with difficult emotions (Ramiro Ortega, Gaia House Teacher)
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.
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.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Limited number of spaces available at £40 for those who would otherwise be unable to attend psychotherapy
Further information
What is my approach?
My core qualification is in Integrative Psychotherapy. This means that we will work together to integrate and unite the different elements of your affective, cognitive, behavioural and physiological states. We all have different parts of ourselves which have developed through our lives. Sometimes, these parts are not working well together, or do not serve us as well as we would like in the present day. Integrative Psychotherapy looks to our whole experience, seeking to make sense of it, and freeing us to move forwards intentionally and with kindness towards ourselves and towards others.
All our work will take place within a context of relational attunement, empathy, non- judgement and compassion. Psychotherapy with me will offer you the space to be fully seen and heard. It will allow you to connect with who you really are, and to begin to thrive both within yourself and in the world.