Stuart Benney
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About me
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Hi Im Stuart, originally from Cornwall, now living, and practicing in Edinburgh from the end of October. I currently offer appointments in person on Tuesday evenings, and online on Friday Mornings. I offer a free initial appointment. I am warm and empathetic and love being a therapist so bring my all to every session. I offer a collaborative safe space for counselling for emotional healing, to support your mental health, improve wellness and supporting your growth.
I primarily work with adults who have experienced childhood or adult trauma, and sexuality and sex informed therapy.
I have a Masters Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and I am qualified to work integratively by combining Person Centred Therapy with Attachment Theory and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). It is important to use methods which have good evidence for effective and safe ethical therapy. Importantly I work within the BACP ethical framework for your safety and assurance and im fully insured.
The most important component of counselling is relational depth ... that is the relationship between the counsellor and you, the client. It's proven that this relationship is more important than the type of therapy. I offer a free consultation session to get to know each other and decide if I'm a therapist you want to work with.
If you think you would like us to work together, please send me an email so we can start to discuss your therapy journey.
Training, qualifications & experience
I qualified with a Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Derby.
I also work as a counsellor-psychotherapist for the NHS, helping clients work with a very wide range of problems. I am open to all clients within my scope of practice. I have experience with clients from the LGBQT community.
I am a trauma informed psychotherapist, which means I approach trauma in a safe manner.
Further Training and Continuous Professional Development:
- Intensive Course in Trauma-Informed Practice
- Complete Trauma Immersion
- Certificate in Integrative Sex and Couples.
- Polyamory (and Ethical Non-Monogamy) Aware Therapy Practice
- Co-dependency
- Autism
- New ways of thinking about and labelling: gender, sex, and relationship diversity
- Obsessive compulsive disorder: how can therapy help?
- The dissociated self and autism
- Can therapy help clients make better relationship choices
- Supervision around gender and sexual diversity clients
- The function of binging
- Using compassion and body awareness to help people make peace with food
- An intervention led framework for self-harm
- Addiction: a search for a secure base?
- 'Normal' and 'abnormal' eating in a world of plentiful food and body shape pre-conception
- Treating trauma, complex PTSD and dissociative disorders-
- Attachment theory in practice
- Integrative trauma treatment masterclass
- New rules of love with Esther Perel
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.
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
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Additional information
I offer student counsellors therapy for £35.
I offer NHS Band 5 and below workers therapy for £35.
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