Simon Spence
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About me
Hello, and thank you for clicking on my profile page.
I know that the first steps towards seeking help can sometimes feel like the biggest ones. I aim to make it as straightforward for you as possible to identify and benefit from the support you need.
I'm a highly experienced Counsellor/Psychotherapist with 30 years of work in varied settings; helping individuals deal with a wide range of issues including anxiety & stress, feelings of depression, anger, grief, and the trauma resulting from abusive or coercive relationships, either in childhood or more recently. I am interested in the health benefits of nourishing spirituality, alongside my experience of working with those affected negatively by some religious cultures.
Potential benefits of working with me include an increased ability to manage difficult thoughts and feelings, gaining new insights into yourself and your situation, developing a greater sense of self-acceptance, and a growing capacity for joy in your life. Therapy with me can help you develop your abilities and learn new skills to deal with the difficulties that life inevitably brings, as well as heal wounds from the past that may be holding you back.
As a Person-Centred Therapist, meeting and responding to you in ways that feel comfortable and safe enough for you to explore your personal experience of the world is centrally important. I am also informed by Psychodynamic theories, the insights of behavioural science, trauma-informed approaches, as well as centuries-old spiritual wisdom from different traditions. I am interested in the growing understanding of human neurodiversity, and also in how issues of power and politics, privilege and deprivation, affect our health and wellbeing.
There’s plenty more information about me and the way I work on my website. Please get in touch if you feel my approach may fit with what you are looking for; I will be pleased to hear from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
After studying literature and philosophy and then living and working in community with adults with learning disabilities, my early professional life was in the worlds of education and social work. In the early 1990s I began my formal training in counselling and psychotherapy, first in Edinburgh and then in Glasgow. Ongoing supervision, training and education sustain and develop my practice.
If you would like to view the details of my training, please visit the 'About Simon' pages on my website.
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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Fees
£60.00 per session
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Additional information
I offer a limited number of reduced-fee places. Please ask me if you would be interested in this.
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Generally available Monday - Thursday. First appointment 9.00am, last appointment 5.00pm. Very limited evening and weekend appointments.
