Stacey Permaul
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About me
Offering online and face-to-face psychotherapy for baby and pregnancy loss. I offer individual and couple therapy.
Firstly, I am so very sorry for your loss.
Pregnancy loss is so much more than a statistic. It is the loss of dreams, a future, certainty. The pain of losing a baby that you never had the chance to fully meet, brings with it a world of complex and overwhelming emotions. Sometimes, it can feel like you are completely alone in your feelings - that no one else can truly understand or see your pain.
How are you…really?
Perhaps you’ve noticed you aren't enjoying the things you used to, or it feels harder to socialise with friends and colleagues for fear of questions they may ask? Perhaps you are experiencing increased anxiety or feelings of panic when seeing others around you falling pregnant or talking about their living children?
Maybe you are noticing a change in your relationship with your partner since the loss and worry about your future together?
You don't want to burden anyone with your problems but you want help...what now? Call me, I'm listening.
Who am I?
I am a BACP Accredited psychotherapist with a specialism in perinatal loss. I have worked with a number of charities supporting women through miscarriage, TFMRs, ectopic and molar pregnancies as well as stillbirth and neonatal death.
My core model of working is the Person-Centred Approach. My perinatal loss specific training includes accreditation with Foundation of Infant Loss, Birth Trauma, Complex Grief, Attachment Theory and Compassion Focused Therapy.
What can I offer you?
My commitment to you as your therapist, is to facilitate a space in which you can begin to process your loss without fear of judgment or insensitive ‘helpful’ comments that you may have received in the past. I provide an opportunity to gain some clarity and acceptance of your loss, allowing you to find a new way to move forward that doesn’t invalidate, diminish or forget your unborn baby.
If you would like to speak to me more about how we could work together, you can contact me for a free introductory call via the ‘book a call’ button above. Alternatively, you can email me on stacey@staceypermaulcounselling.co.uk.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training:
Higher Professional Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Perinatal loss training with Petals Charity.
Accredited therapist with the Foundation for Infant Loss
Certificate in Online Counselling (accredited by the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online)
BAPAM Registered Practitioner (British Association for Performing Arts Medicine)
Previously an Anxiety UK Approved Therapist
Motivational Interviewing Diploma
Addiction Counselling Diploma
Continued Professional Development: Birth Trauma, Complex Grief, Attachment Theory based interventions for Perinatal Loss, Infant Loss and Subsequent Pregnancy After Loss, Anxiety Disorders, Group Facilitation, Eco Psychotherapy, Relational Trauma, Expressive Media, Domestic Abuse.
Experience
I have worked with many clients presenting a range of issues including:
- Anxiety & Stress - Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety, Performance Anxiety, Postnatal Anxiety, Work-Related Stress
- Low Self-Esteem - people-pleasing, punishing thoughts, imposter syndrome, feelings of inadequacy or being 'less than everyone else'.
- Grief/Loss - particularly baby loss, infertility issues and miscarriage
- Maternal mental health issues - postnatal anxiety and depression
Specialist experience and training:
- Perinatal loss - miscarriage, TFMRs, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancies, abortion, subsequent pregnancies after loss.
- Working with Creative Professionals - performance anxiety, imposter syndrome, work/life balance and stress, low self-esteem and self-confidence.
- Trauma - birth trauma, complex grief and loss.
Member organisations
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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.
The Association for Counselling and Therapy Online
Accredited register membership
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Fees
£70.00 - £90.00
Free initial telephone session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Individual therapy sessions - £70
Couple therapy sessions (perinatal loss clients only) - £90
When I work
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In person therapy sessions:
Wednesday (East Dulwich practice) 8.30am-12pm
Friday (East Dulwich practice) 8.30am-3pm
Online and telephone:
Tues 9.30am-3pm
Wed 3-5pm
Thurs 1-5pm
