Sue Winkett
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About me
“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” - Brené Brown.
Making the decision to seek counselling is a hard step to take, instead we tend to ignore our feelings and hope they go away. But what if by ‘showing up’ we could understand our difficulties and discover ways to face life’s challenges, such as relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, loss, stress or just feeling stuck.
I believe the most significant factor in how much a client gains from counselling is the relationship between counsellor and client; the person to person connection. If you are experiencing thoughts and feelings that you are struggling with counselling can be a way of making sense of them. I offer a non-judgmental, warm, compassionate and confidential space where you can work through difficult feelings and experiences. Here you can explore what’s going on for you, discover meaningful insight about yourself and gain greater understanding of the difficulties you face.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a BACP qualified integrative counsellor with experience of working with a range of issues. Working in an integrative way means that I use a number of approaches, or schools of thought when working with clients, as no two people are the same. Above all else I see you as an individual with individual needs.
We can explore what you can change and what you need to feel happier and more at home in yourself, your relationships and your day to day life. We might look at your patterns; how you think and feel about yourself and others, the things that you don't understand about yourself and your relationships. We can look back into the past to see how it may still be affecting you.
The counselling service that I offer is via Zoom or face to face. I work with both adults and young people aged 16+.
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
£35.00 - £45.00
Free initial telephone or online session
Additional information
I offer a reduced rate of £35 for young people aged 15-19.
Adults 20+ my rate is £45 per session.
When I work
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For introductory calls/Zooms, please email me first to enquire.
My general availability for sessions, online or in person, is subject to change, please contact me to discuss.
Further information
Before your first session we will have had an initial telephone consultation, with no charge, which gives you a chance to see if I'm the right fit for you. Once confirmed I'll send you an assessment form that has a number of questions for you to have a look at before we meet.
Doing an assessment is important to support working safely together. Some of the questions are things like contact details, GP surgery and your address, and some are more to do with family, relationships, personal history and what you are finding difficult right now.
I send the assessment form before our 1st session so that I can get a better understanding of what is going on for you before we meet. It's also a good chance for you to think about what you want to focus on. You can complete the parts you feel comfortable with and any others we can look at together in our session. You then send the form back to me before our 1st session with any questions that might have come up.
