Saskia Saunders
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About me
I am an Integrative Counsellor and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional with a Certificate in Trauma Therapy offering a safe supportive space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings. You may be experiencing a life event, change in circumstances, feel stuck in an aspect of your life or want to explore aspects of your history as you forge your present and future paths. I am here to support you as you explore the elements that have brought you to counselling at this time.
As an Integrative Counsellor my practical and theoretical training is grounded in Humanistic Person Centred, Psychodynamic, Transactional Analysis, Existential and Cognitive ways of working. Each of these approaches are integrated into the way I will therapeutically work with you, depending on your own unique requirements. Working with this integrative therapeutic model means I am here to support you in the way you specifically need at this time. Our time together will be informed by your agenda for sessions, not directed by me, or to suit a singular therapeutic approach.
As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional I am experienced supporting individuals who have been impacted directly by traumatic events, or have experienced vicarious trauma as a consequence of witnessing a loved one or another person in life-threatening circumstances.
Alongside my Private Practice I work with Hospice and Bereavement Services supporting individuals adjusting to the death of loved ones, providing support for those experiencing complex grief, traumatic loss or multiple bereavements.
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Integrative Counselling with Distinction
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
Certificate in Trauma Therapy
Certificate in Relationship and Couples Therapy
Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
£60 Individual Session fee(50-minutes)
£90 Relationship and Couples Session fee (1-hour)
Further information
Initial Discovery Call
Prior to working together we would have an initial Discovery Call consultation of approximately 30-minute to give me an insight into what brings you to counselling at this time, along with your goals and expectations for counselling. It is also an opportunity for you to get a sense of the way we could work together, and ask any questions you may have. There is no fee for initial Discovery Call, and no expectation to commit to sessions.
Ongoing sessions
Sessions are held regularly each week, this is the most supportive model to enable you to explore the reasons that have brought you to counselling at this time.
~ In person sessions are in the same place, on the same day and time each week.
~ Online and telephone sessions are weekly. For clients with changing shift patterns, where availability allows I offer flexibility with day and time each month.
