Stephen Harley-Sloman
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About me
I believe that having someone properly listen to you non-judgmentally, is highly valuable, whether you are 10 or 80 years old. Moreover, I believe that when the listener is a professional counsellor, with both years of training and experience, then it can be both valuable AND life-changing.
What makes a person feel valuable is for them to feel that they count and are important and one way to help them in this is to listen openly to their thoughts, feelings and worries.
What helps a person to make changes in their lives is never to be told what to do - advice rarely works - but to be able to understand better why they are in the place or situation that they are in and to gain knowledge and confidence about how to make things better.
As a counsellor, my role is to help facilitate this and also help you to gain strength and resilience to make those changes work for you and to permanently improve your life.
SELF-AWARENESS and SELF-KNOWLEDGE helps you feel more in control. Control = ACCEPTANCE and the potential to CHANGE.
My model of counselling is integrational. This comprises a Person-Centred and humanistic approach to help you in your quest for understanding and strength and then a Cognitive Behavioral approach which will help you to sort out your thoughts and feelings and understand which are true and helpful and get rid of those which are negative and with which we often get trapped.
The more we understand what makes us who we are, the more we have the ability to either accept our situation or to change it.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have an honours degree in therapeutic counselling and have trained extensively in Cognitive Behavioral Techniques and have been working in counselling since 2010.
My work experience has specialised in young people (age 10 -24) and I also spent 5 years working with sexual abuse at a SARC centre (sexual assault referral centre) in Gloucester.
I am currently working in a high school setting as a school counsellor.
I have received training and work experience in bereavement, LGBT issues, depression, anxiety, OCD and phobia management.
I am a registered member of the BACP and currently work for the CLD trust in Hereford.
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
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fee is £50.00 per session and I no longer offer an exploratory session at discount, but I am very happy to have a telephone conversation to explore what your needs are. A successful outcome in therapy is dependent upon a collaborative therapeutic relationship i.e. you need to feel that you can trust and talk to me. I might even suggest that it is important you like me, but you need to feel completely comfortable in the therapy.
When I work
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I do have flexibility as to when I can organise sessions as I only live about 20 minutes from my office. I can also offer session via Zoom.
