About me
Hello I’m Sarah, the woman behind Empowered Within Counselling.
I love supporting and enabling my clients to heal, grow and become their authentic self. I believe that counselling is a journey and when I work with a client, I am on that journey with them.
I am very committed to ensuring my clients receive the right support for their needs.
With over 20 years of experience, including within the NHS, offering support to people in various settings, I bring maturity and an innate understanding of other people’s needs, together with my own lived experience.
I provide face-to-face, telephone and online counselling for individuals seeking support with various issues including low self-worth, low confidence, relationship difficulties, issues related to neurodivergence, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger issues, attachment issues, OCD, and eating difficulties. I strongly believe in the power of self-awareness and empowerment. By helping clients to explore their experiences and understand how those experiences have shaped them, I help them use this knowledge to develop the tools and coping strategies needed to help them work on their issues and enhance their wellbeing.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have qualifications within counselling (person-centred counselling and psychotherapy), advice & guidance, teaching and youth work. I am also currently completing training in neurodivergence coaching.
I started my career as a youth worker, then I went on to work as an employment advisor/tutor. I’ve worked in advice and guidance and pastoral roles within schools and colleges, I have worked as a social work assistant with looked after children and I have worked for NHS Talking Therapies. More recently, I have worked as a young person’s mental health practitioner on an online platform and as a self-employed private counsellor with adults.
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
Fees
£50.00 per session
Additional information
I offer a 20% discount when 6 or more sessions are booked and paid for in advance.
