Soraya Jilani
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About me
My Name is Soraya and I am a fully qualified and experienced Therapeutic counsellor working with Adults, Teenagers, Children and families.
I work creatively and intuitively, offering a safe, non-judgemental and supportive environment, to help assist you in exploring your feelings. Freeing yourself from unhelpful patterns that are holding you back from enjoying life and accepting things we are unable to change.
I offer a tailored service to your individual needs.
As well as working in private practice I have experience working in a youth organisation and both secondary and primary schools, working with pupils and their families. Working with a variety of issues: Low self-esteem, Anxiety, loss, Bereavement, relationship difficulties, bullying, abuse and sexual abuse. There is often a lot of focus on Anger work, using creative exercises to work around healthy anger.
I currently work as a School Counsellor in a Primary School, working therapeutically through creative play and a sessional therapist working with Bereaved families.
I am a Reiki Practitioner, which can help toward balancing mind and body to help bring about positive wellbeing. Reiki can be helpful to combine with talking therapies such as counselling as well as alone.
I work with issues such as Depression, Anxiety, Stress, loss, Bereavement, Self-esteem and personal development.
Making the first move is never easy.
If you would like an appointment please call so your journey can begin.
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Training, qualifications & experience
- Advanced Diploma in therapeutic counselling Level 4 CPCAB
- Counselling skills and theory level 3 NCFE.
- Counselling skills level 2 NCFE
- Certificate cognitive behaviour therapy
- Certificate in understanding Health and improvement level 2 RSPH
- Mental Health first aid youth MHFA
- Certificate Healer/Counsellor
- Qualified Reiki Practitioner ( Reiki Master)
- Certificate in crystals for health
- Regular child protection training
I have regular CPD to continue my learning. Some training:
- Creative play
- Drug and alcohol awareness
- Child sexual exploitation
- Bereavement
- Working with suicide
- Mindfulness
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£40.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
I have a room at Lupton House which is set in beautiful grounds with plenty of parking and also on a bus root. Possible wheel chair access.
