Stuart Melvin
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About me
Stuart Melvin Counsellor, Psychotherapist and NLP Coach.
Counsellor and Psychotherapist with 28 years of continuing experience working within adult, adolescent mental health and wellbeing using diverse therapeutic interventions in the NHS and other disciplines.
Since 1996, I have worked in various therapeutic contexts and disciplines, including with adolescents aged between 11 and 18 years, their parents and families as well as with adults with various mental health issues. For the past 17 years, I have worked within the NHS in CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) as a therapist, consultant, trainer and service developer. I have experience working both as a therapist within the field of mental health and as an educational mental health consultant for secondary schools.
I have also worked in the field of adolescent and adult counselling provision in a multitude of disciplines including specialist young people’s counselling services, adult addiction treatment services, criminal Justice and in the Looked After Children sector.
My Training and Experience
Over the past 27 years, I have developed a highly evolved integrative therapeutic practice that uses various modes of psychotherapeutic intervention, including Person Centred therapy, Psychodynamic Formulation and Counselling, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), Neuro Linguistic Programming and Coaching, Solution-Focused Therapy, Mediation and Conflict resolution. (Qualified Mediator and Restorative Justice Practitioner and Trainer since 2004).
I am also qualified to Master Practitioner Level in the discipline of Neuro Linguistic Programming and am a qualified NLP Coach. I am currently training to support my registration as an NLP/Hypnotherapist.
I am also a qualified Parenting Trainer and have run Parenting Courses within the community.
Personal Development
I believe that in order to engage most effectively with my clients I am required to ‘walk the walk’ rather than just ‘talk the talk’ and, as a result, have been personally committed to the process of personal therapeutic change for the past 29 years. I have engaged with various therapeutic treatments and pathways and know what it feels like to be vulnerable and in need of help. I also understand the challenges of change and what it takes to find personal resources within yourself to overcome difficulty and find your rightful place within the world.
What to expect
How I work?
I use an integrative approach to working as it allows me the luxury of using different theoretical and practical therapeutic models. This offers my clients the opportunity of working with an approach that best suits their needs. I work in a bespoke manner, thinking creatively and reflectively to consider which approach will resonate most effectively with my clients, taking into consideration Age, Gender, Sexuality, Culture, Socio-Economic Status, Disabilities, Religion and Spiritual Beliefs and Practices.
Approach
As a Therapist, I use evidence-based therapies within my practice. As previously illustrated, I am trained and well versed in a wide range of therapeutic modalities and work in a collaborative and culturally-sensitive way in order to create a powerful therapeutic relationship, something that is recognised as being the most crucial factor in positive therapeutic outcomes.
I am able to work with you over the short or long term, focusing primarily on present and future-orientated treatment, but with the opportunity to explore your past and how this can programme the conscious and unconscious minds to have a powerful bearing on your life today, both positive and negative.
Specific issues can also be selectively treated if you want to focus on managing issues that have become problematic and are acting as an obstacle to your life moving forward.
As a clinician, I have extensive experience of completing assessments, formulations and interventions for most mental health disorders, including complex psychological, emotional and behavioural presentations. Working for 17 years in a multi-disciplinary environment within the NHS has afforded me wide experience and perspective of medical, systemic and family, individual, group, psychological and behavioural disciplines.
My first session
Working together
At the initial session together we can work out what you want and what you would like to achieve in your time working with me. We can then agree on which method of working will support you in achieving your vision of what you would like your life to look like at the end of our work together.
I have a range of ways of assessing what you will need using both discussion, assessment, formulation and questionnaires to support interventions using your data to outline specific issues and trends. This will help us to focus on identifying key areas of your life that you want to work on.
Summarising:
With so much experience of reflective practice, I would look to utilise all, or some, of the approaches that I have previously mentioned, to create a format that will work for you. Everyone responds and benefits from different approaches to therapy. There is no one size fits all, hence the benefit of my experience in a multitude of disciplines.
We will be focused on the present, but we can explore the option of reviewing the influence of your past, what unconscious patterns may be influencing your present day beliefs and actions. This will permit you greater freedom to make choices that are more aligned to your values and in line with your wishes, goals and intentions. In short, therapy can help you understand why you do what you do, whilst giving you the option to doing something different if it is helpful and desirable.
Conditions and issues I work with, but not exclusively, are:
- Generalised Anxieties and Fears
- Panic attacks
- Phobias
- Obsessive thoughts and compulsive rituals (OCD)
- Body Dysmorphia
- Health anxiety
- Low Mood states: Depression and Low mood
- Emotional Difficulties
- Anger (assertiveness),
- Emotional dysregulation
- Self esteem and confidence
- Trauma; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
- Pain and physical health
- Addictions
- Working with Neuro-Diverse Young People ASC ADHD etc
- Coaching and Counselling to support both adults and young people in their personal development
Types of therapy
Behavioural, Brief therapy, CBT, Cognitive, Cognitive analytic therapy, Eclectic, Integrative, Neuro linguistic programming, Person centred, Psychodynamic, Solution focused brief therapy, Systemic
How I deliver therapy
Home visits, Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Outdoor therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Time-limited
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications and Training
- Higher National Diploma in Community and Youthwork 1998
- Masters in Social Research and Development 2003
- Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy - CBT/Integrative approach 2008
- BACP Accreditation 2010
- Certificate in Counselling 1999
- Certificate in Solution Focused Therapy 1999
- Qualified Mediation and Conflict Resolution Certificate 2005
- Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming 2006
- NLP Coach 2022
- Mediator in the Workplace Certificate 2006
- Parenting Trainer 2010
- Training the Trainer Certificate 2004
- NLP Hypnotherapy Current training 2024
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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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.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
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Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
When I work
I am available on Monday evenings, Tuesday evenings, Wednesdays after 2pm, Thursdays and some Fridays, including early evenings.
Further information
You can meet with me at my consultation room at my home in Westbury on Trym, Bristol, or I can offer online consultations using Google Meet or Zoom to allow you the convenience of working with me within the context of your wider life.
Westbury on Trym, Bristol, BS10 5BL (near Southmead hospital)
Parking is available on site.
My current fees are £75 per session and the fees are the same face to face or through online sessions.
