Sean Lowden
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About me
A key strength is my natural ability to engage individuals and couples from multiple demographics, identities and ethnicities - I'm straight forward.
I have worked as an Integrative Therapist/Counsellor since 2014 across 4 healthcare settings from which I can draw experience from multiple mental health related client issues.
- NHS IVF Fertility Counsellor - current employed role - 3 years.
- NHS Primary Care Counsellor in GP Surgeries - 5 years.
- NHS Talking Therapies IAPT Counsellor - 4 years.
- NHS & HMPPS (Prison and Probation) Counsellor for service users 7 years and Mental Health Adviser for personnel 4 years.
Key client interventions to instigate change:
- Psychotherapy - backstory event trauma timeline exploration of emotional and environment triggers and re-scripting
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) - negative thought process correction and fight, flight, freeze analysis
- TA (Transactional Analysis) - parent, adult, child ego state analysis to assist couple relationship alignment
- Art Therapy - free drawing to assist grounding and to elicit the unspoken and alignment in relationships.
I am an Accredited member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) and a Registered member of BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association).
In a past life I worked in the advertising industry for over thirty-years in the UK and abroad building global brands while increasing profits for agencies. I was also a surfing instructor once - daughter never believes that one.
Email (slowden33@icloud.com) for a free twenty-minute telephone assessment and importantly to ensure that I'm the right fit for you.
Telephone or online video - individuals £75 per hour session and couples £100.
Face-to-face can be organised if preferred.
Evening and weekend availability.
'It's all been figured out, except how to live?' Jean-Paul Sartre.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
- BA (Hons) Degree in Counselling (2014 - University of Sunderland)
- Masters in Creative Writing (2023 - Northumbria University)
Certified Training:
- Level 5 Counselling Clinical Supervisor Certificate – (2024)
- BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association)
- BICA Accreditation (Advanced) Training (2023)
- BICA Implications Counselling into the future using donated materials (2023)
- BICA Couples Training (2022)
- BICA Foundation Certificate (2022)
- Donor Conception Network - Making It Real - industry and donor conceived perspectives (2023)
- NUTH (NHS) Working with ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) patients (2024)
- NUTH (NHS) Working with the complex PTSD/Trauma (2021)
- NUTH (NHS) Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT) (2021)
- NHS Multiple topic internal training for patient safety and staff relations - ( 2021 to 2025)
(2014 to 2021 training below)
- NHS Employers Equality and Diversity workshops for Bullying and Harassment Skills and Progressive Muscle Relaxation.
- Narrative Therapy Training
- Level 2 Safeguarding Adults Policies and Procedures (Gateshead Council)
- Trans Awareness Training Be Trans Support and Development North
- Mental Health First Aid (Durham Council)
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy Approach
- Outcomes and Management Information
- Working Creatively with Children and Young People
- Working with Sexualised Behaviour
- Meditation and Relaxation Techniques (including Mindfulness)
- Counselling Young People on the Autistic Spectrum & their Families
- Working with Conflict
- Art Therapy
- Self-discovery through Creative Writing
- Personal Safety and Handling Abusive Behaviour
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Main specialisation since 2022 is as a NHS Fertility (IVF) Counsellor/Therapist.
I deliver therapeutic and donor recipient implications counselling to individuals and couples undergoing infertility investigations and IVF treatment.
Therapeutic Counselling
Provides emotional support and fertility focussed psychological interventions and coping strategies to assist navigating IVF fertility treatment. Therapy is tailored to meet individual patient needs at the point in their treatment.
Implications Counselling
Provides perspective and guidance on being a donor recipient. The goal to enable patients to make the most well informed decision before proceeding with IVF using donated gametes, for example using eggs, embryos, sperm or a surrogate. This includes how to navigate disclosure to the child and HFEA guidance in relation to using donated materials.
Donors can also be supported with their decision making and potential implications from their donation.
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 - £100.00
Additional information
Sessions last for 1 hour and offered as telephone and online video.
Face-to-face can also be accommodated.
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