Sarah McManus
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About me
Therapy that meets you where you are, because there isn't a right way to come to therapy.
You might come to therapy knowing exactly what you want help with. Or you might not have a clue where to start. You could be feeling scared, uncomfortable, overwhelmed, or just unlike yourself. Maybe you keep wondering why the same things seem to happen in your relationships, why you find it so hard to say no, why you care so much about what other people think, or why you keep reacting in ways you promised yourself you wouldn't.
Wherever you're starting from, we start there.
I'm an integrative counsellor and relational therapist with over three years' experience working with clients. At the heart of my approach is the belief that therapy should meet you where you are, rather than expecting you to fit a particular model or way of working.
For some people, that means having space to talk and allowing things to emerge at their own pace. For others, it can be helpful for me to be more active: asking questions, noticing patterns, offering a different perspective or gently challenging something when it feels useful. We might use creative work, explore what you're noticing in your body, look at different parts of yourself, or use psychological ideas to help make sense of your experience, and how we work develops through the relationship between us.
My core training is integrative, drawing particularly on Person-Centred therapy, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis. Increasingly, however, I think of the relationship itself as central to the work. I'm interested not only in what has happened to you, but in how you've learned to relate to yourself and others, what you've needed to do to cope, and what happens when those ways of coping no longer work quite as well as they once did.
Sometimes therapy involves change, and sometimes it involves acceptance. Sometimes it begins simply with having somewhere you don't have to know what comes next....We can work from there.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
- Currently working towards Accreditation
- Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Level 4)
- BACP Certificate of Proficiency
- Certificate in Counselling Skills (Level 3)
- Skilled Helping and Counselling Skills (Level 2)
- Understanding Autism (Level 2)
- Understanding Mental Health First Aid and Advocacy (Level 2)
- Awareness in Mental Health Problems (Level 2)
Recent Continual Professional Development (CPD):
- Working with Shame (Caroline Spring)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Informed
- Working with Trauma Masterclass (The Gestalt Centre)
- Working Therapeutically with Autistic Clients
- Trauma Informed Training
- CPCAB Endorsed Walk & Talk Therapy
- Online and Telephone Counselling
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Inner Child
- Gestalt Theory
- Transactional Analysis 101
- Poly Vagal Theory
Member organisations
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
Therapies offered
Photos & videos
Fees
£39.00 - £49.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- Initial Introduction over the phone or Zoom (Up to 15 minutes): Free
- Counselling Session (50 minutes): £49
- Concession Counselling Session (50 minutes): £44
- Counsellors In Training (CITs) and Full-time Students (50 minutes): £39
Quick, easy and convenient payment options are provided.
When I work
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Further information
How we might work together:
🗓 Flexible scheduling – online and in person, with flexible daytime and evening options to suit your schedule and pace.
💬 Booking made simple – use the online client portal or book as you go.🧍♀️ In-person in Canterbury, 🌍 remote via Zoom, or 🚶♀️ walk & talk therapy (seasonal availability).
⏰ 50-minute sessions from £39 - £49, depending on your needs and circumstances, with quick and convenient payment options.
