Shannon Spencer
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About me
Hi, I’m so glad you’re here taking those initial steps. With over ten years of experience supporting children, young people, and adults, I offer a safe, compassionate space to help you navigate challenges, explore feelings, and build confidence. Let’s take the first step together!
Life’s challenges—whether tied to personal experiences, cultural identity, ethnicity, or a sense of feeling different—can feel overwhelming and isolating. Navigating workplace stress, identity concerns, or the emotional weight of past experiences can leave you unsure of where to turn. For parents, it’s also hard to watch your child face similar struggles, whether it’s with self-expression, emotional well-being, or social pressures.
I’m here to help. I provide a safe, supportive, and confidential space where you or your child can explore these challenges and work toward greater clarity and confidence. Together, we can address the complexities of trauma, cultural dynamics, microaggressions, neurodivergence, and other impactful experiences in a way that feels empowering and validating.
Here’s what I offer:
A free 20-minute consultation to see if we’re a good fit.
Tailored counselling sessions available in person, online, or by phone.
I accept insurance provider payments to make support more accessible.
Assistance with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma, identity, cultural challenges, low mood, neurodivergence and more.
Through talking therapy or creative strategies, my goal is to create a space where you or your child can process experiences, navigate emotions, and grow stronger. Let’s begin this journey toward healing and empowerment together.
Training, qualifications & experience
My experience
I have experience working with a variety of clients, including children, young people and adults, providing support with a range of issues such as low self-esteem, anxiety, loss, grief bereavement, depression, relationship issues, identity issues and addiction.
I have worked as a counsellor within educational settings, from primary schools through to college. Supporting students, parents, and staff therapeutically. In addition to this, I also have experience working in substance misuse centres supporting clients working through their addiction as well as their families.
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
£67.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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