About me
Life can sometimes feel overwhelming. You may be experiencing anxiety, stress or panic. Feeling lonely, misunderstood, or trying to cope with the effects of childhood trauma or a significant life change. Perhaps you find yourself repeating familiar patterns, struggling in relationships, or a sense of feeling lost or unfulfilled.
Welcome to Sarah Phillips Counselling. I am an Accredited Counsellor working with adults based in Wokingham.
The relationship in counselling is so important. This journey can be hard. A space where you can feel safe to talk to someone without judgement or advice. I’m passionate about my work. I hope to offer a relationship where I am down to earth and relatable, working with kindness and compassion, whilst also being strong, resilient, and steadfast, able to hear what you have to share. I’m told when needed, I have a good sense of humour in the mix too.
Together we can begin to make sense of what may be causing your distress. Find coping mechanisms to help support you, whilst exploring patterns in your thoughts and behaviours. Reflect on how you would like your life and relationships to feel different.
Throughout our life experiences we will internalise messages about ourselves. These are sometimes painful, and our unconscious will go to great lengths to protect us from feeling this pain. For example, someone who feels “not good enough” may develop patterns to protect themselves from this pain, like procrastination and people pleasing. Making sense of these patterns can support us to find new ways of responding to support change and growth.
Change can be challenging, the patterns we find ourselves repeating feel familiar and safe to us. We can work together to identify parts of you which keep you stuck, preventing change. Or we can just be. Sometimes we are not seeking change and just want to be heard.
I offer a free introductory call to discuss your needs and see if we would work well together.
I work from a beautiful room. A calm, private space, detached from my home. Close to Wokingham town centre, in a quiet road, with private parking and accessible by public transport.
Easily accessible from Winnersh, Finchampstead, Crowthorne, Earley, Woodley, Twyford, Reading, Bracknell, Sandhurst, Maidenhead and surrounding areas.
Training, qualifications & experience
In addition to working in private practice, I have tutored at Basingstoke College, teaching a professional recognised CPCAB Counselling course. Worked as a volunteer Counsellor at Reading College and Youthline, a charity providing counselling services to young people.
I'm an Integrative Counsellor, which simply means I am trained in different theories, and can bring in different ways of working to suit your needs. I have extensive experience supporting clients to identify unconscious patterns of behaviour and how this impacts life and relationships.
My main approaches are Person Centered and Internal Family Systems, alongside CBT, Transactional Analysis and Psychodynamic.
CPCAB Integrative Counselling Diploma Level 4 - Basingstoke College of Technology.
Accredited member of BACP British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Enhanced DBS, Prevent and Safeguarding Training
Professional Liability Insurance
I am committed to professional personal development. CPD courses attended for; Anxiety, Depression, Complex Grief, Breath work for the Nervous System, Trauma to Transformation, Inner Child, Self-Harm, Creative Working with Loss, Emotional Regulation, Internal Family Systems, Existential Therapies, CBT, Single Session Therapy, Working with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Menopause.
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
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Fees
£55.00 per session
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Additional information
Working from my own space allows me to offer a more accessible cost. I offer a free 20-minute initial video or introductory call for us to meet, get to know each other a little and discuss how we might work together.
I offer daytime sessions from Monday through to Thursday and evening sessions on a Thursday.
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