Sue Gibbs BA (Hons), Dip. Psych. MBACP (Accred)
Email meAbout me
People seek counselling and psychotherapy for many different reasons. I offer a confidential, non-judgemental, safe and reliable setting in which to explore your difficulties.
Meeting regularly in my private consulting room, together we can explore your issues and your response to them so that they can be understood and managed.
Sessions last 50 minutes, the work can be short-term (an agreed period of weeks/months) or long-term and open-ended. Sessions are available on weekdays and can be either once a week, twice a week or three times per week.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a fully Registered and Accredited Member of the British Assoication for Counselling and Psychotherapy and have completed a BACP approved in-depth and rigorous counsellor/psychotherapy training. I am also a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
My qualifications include: Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, BA (Hons) Sociology and English; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.
I work in private practice and also assess new clients and supervise the work of other counsellors within organisational settings. I regularly undertake continued professional development to keep my skills and experience uptodate.
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- Affairs and betrayals
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- Attachment disorder
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Bereavement
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career counselling
- Carer support
- Child related issues
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Disabilities
- Discrimination
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gender dysphoria
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Hearing voices
- Histrionic personality disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Infertility
- Learning difficulties
- Loneliness
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic attacks
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Psychosis
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sex problems
- Sexuality
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Tourette's syndrome
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
Fees
The first step is an initial assessment meeting and this can be arranged either by email or over the telephone. Initial meetings are seventy-five minutes. Other on-going sessions are fifty minutes.
Current Fees: £85 initial assessment meeting
£55 ongoing sessions
I review my fees each year.
I am sometimes asked if I will consider a low-fee arrangement due to on-going or temporary financial difficulties. This can be discussed at the initial meeting and, if I have a low-fee space available, this may be agreed subject to a commitment to attend two or three times per week for a couple of years.
Maps & Directions
Cowes, PO31
Type of session
| Online counselling: | Yes |
| Telephone counselling: | Yes |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
| Home visits: | No |
Practical details
| Sign language: | Unspecified |
| Other languages: | None |
Accessibility
| Wheelchair access: | No |
I have a small internal step that means wheelchair access is not possible.
Availability
Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. A limited number of very early morning and some evening sessions are available.
Types of client
| Adults |
| Older adults |
| Organisations |
| Employee Assistance Programme |
