Sinead Oskan
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About me
Hello,
Are you feeling anxious or depressed; facing challenges as a couple; or finding life hard after bereavement or other significant life event? I can offer you a welcoming, supportive space to feel heard, understood and valued.
How we will work together
Together we will explore what brought to counselling or psychotherapy. We will use a range of therapeutic approaches to help you to achieve your goals, in a way which feels tailored just for you. My warm, friendly, and competent style will help you to feel at ease, informed, and empowered: helping you to get the most from our time together and your life beyond the therapy room.
I offer face-to-face appointments to individuals and couples in the Northwest of England and North Wales. I also offer online video, and phone counselling throughout the UK.
How I work for you
I support clients with a wide range of issues and goals. As an integrative psychotherapist, I focus on your unique experiences and how they affect your wellbeing. We are all a wonderful mix of past, present, and future hopes and fears. We are shaped by the world around us, and the people with whom we live. As your therapist, I will be fully accepting of you within the full context of your life. I will weave together concepts and practical strategies to help your current needs.
Bereavement and Grief
I specialise in grief associated with the death of a baby, child, or adult child (of any age or gestation). I have delivered presentations and training nationally and internationally; written bereavement resources and blogs for national charities and organisations, including the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP); and offer specialised counselling and group facilitation to local and national charities, supporting bereaved families. If you are coming to me as a bereaved parent or family member, I am so sorry for all that you are going through. As a bereaved parent myself, I understand.
There are no right or wrong ways to grieve. As such, it can feel like such a lonely time, even if you are surrounded by people who care. Again, I will make no assumptions about your loss and ‘how you must be feeling.’ Your grief is as unique as the precious child you are remembering, and it will be as treasured as such. I will support you with a breadth of knowledge, understanding, and experience. I have a good record of helping bereaved parents, who are sceptical of bereavement therapy, but who see it as a last resort. I can work with you as a bereaved individual or as a couple.
Self-understanding and working with Anxiety and Depression
If self-exploration and self-understanding is your goal, then you have come to the right place. As meaning-making beings, we are inclined to search for connections and make sense of our lives. We often carry outdated ideas, thoughts, reactions, and behaviours that no longer serve us. Worse, they can also impact our day to day wellbeing, self-esteem, and ability to engage fully in our own lives. Together, we will explore and deconstruct outdated ways of being. Using simple explanations about how and why we experience and feel the things we do when we are anxious or depressed, we will empower you to start letting go of self-blame and begin to allow a truer and more fulfilled you to flourish.
Couples Counselling
I offer a supportive environment for couples facing challenges with their communication, intimacy, trust, commitments, boundaries and other pressures. Together we will combine curiosity, openness, empathy and non-judgmental understanding to help deepen your understanding of each other and yourself within the relationship.
Student Counsellors
With a background steeped in education, I offer a reduced rate for student counsellors wishing to embark in personal therapy or skills mentoring sessions. I can support your self-development with theoretical knowledge and understanding, helping you to get the most from your therapeutic sessions, and your PD assignments!
What my clients have liked about working with me
- Friendly and competent
- Professional and efficient
- Knowledgable and understanding
- Ethical and reliable
The therapeutic space
I have created a cosy, private and tranquil therapeutic space which carefully utilises the healing properties of nature, even before you enter the therapy room. For some clients green space and birdsong provide a gentle backdrop to their therapy. For others, it is incorporated into the valuable work we do.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a fully qualified integrative psychotherapist and counsellor, who can work with individuals, couples and groups. I am committed to ongoing personal training and development.
Whilst I support clients for a wide range of presenting issues, I specialise in the bereavement and grief of individuals who have experienced the death of a much-loved baby, or child. I have had the deep honour of working with hundreds of bereaved parents, grandparents, and other relations, privately, and on behalf of local and national charities. I also write support resources and write and deliver training on these unique types of grief. I continue to stay up to date with baby loss and child bereavement by working collaboratively with leading national and international bereavement organisations; to share best practice for the families we support.
- Level 5 Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy (FdSc Distinction)
- Level 6 Human Biology (BSc Hons 2:1)
- Level 7 Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
- Level 3 Integrative Counselling Skills
- Level 3 Psychology
- Online and Telephone Counselling
- Mental Health First Aid
- Counselling for Sight Loss Accreditation
- Domestic abuse and sight loss
- Narrative Therapy for Grief
- Compassion focussed Therapy for Trauma
- Compassionate Inquiry
- Internal Family Systems
- Grief after Suicide
- Women's Traumatic Grief, Bereavement and Loss
- Grief Treatments and Interventions
- Biology of Loss
- Ethics and Personal Loss
- Transgenerational and Inherited Trauma
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Anxiety Certification
- Working with the Menopause
- Relational Life Therapy
- Couples Therapy (Intensive)
- Healing in Couples
- Intimacy and Infidelity in Couples
- Mixed Erotic Orientations
- Facilitating play in high-conflict couples
- Treating Narcissism in Relationships
- Various trainings on working with neurodiversity
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I specialise in grief associated with the death of a baby, child, or adult child (of any age or gestation).
Therapies offered
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Fees
£40.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free 20-30 minute telephone consultation for you to get a feel for what it might be like to work with me, and ask any questions that you might have.
Prices are listed per session. Each therapy session lasts for 50 minutes.
- £50 Counselling/psychotherapy
- £50 Bereavement counselling
- £70 Couples/relationship counselling
I offer concessionary rates when working sessional on behalf of bereavement charities, which serve bereaved family members, and people impacted by the death of a child.
- £40 per session (charity-individuals)
- £55 per session (charity-couples)
Personal Therapy: I reserve a limited number of sessions for counselling students at a concessional rate. I also offer 1:1 and 1:2 skills mentoring sessions for counselling students who are wishing to practice and develop their counselling skills outside of the classroom.
- £40 per session (counselling students)
- £40 per hour 1:1 skills mentoring sessions
- £25 per person/per hour. 1:2 skills mentoring sessions
Note: Student sessions are only available face-to-face. For ethical reasons, mentoring sessions are not available for students who I have worked with therapeutically, and vice versa.
When I work
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Further information
I am a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). I adhere to their ethical frameworks for good practice. I work transparently in the client's best interest. I promote each client's right to fairness and self-determination.
In accordance with my registration with the ethical bodies above, I work within my level of competency and attend regular supervision for my work. I am ensured for my therapeutic practice and hold a current DBS certificate. I am dedicated to continuing my personal and professional development.
