Susan McCamley
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About me
Hello and welcome. Let me introduce myself. My name is Susan and I have been working as a therapist since 1998. I guess that you may be thinking about attending counselling and that you are currently searching for the person who you feel may best accompany you on this journey. I'd like to offer you some information about myself and about how I work.
Although initially trained in ‘talk therapy’, I have become very interested in the way that parts of our story may be held in the body, perhaps as tension or pain or emptiness. In session I might ask, ‘ as you talk about that feeling of sadness, how do you experience that’? I might then invite you to bring your attention to what you notice. We can then work with any thoughts, feelings, sensations or images that may arise in connection to your experience.
I believe that relationship lies at the heart of therapy. We now know that the damage in our ability to connect with others can happen early on in life and that the place for that damage potentially to be healed is in relationship. In order for that to happen in therapy you first of all have to feel safe enough, so that trust may begin to grow.
The feeling of being safe is wired throughout body and brain. I can work with you in a collaborative way, offering to show and demonstrate practical ways of creating safety in the brain as well as in the body. We can use these exercises from the first session. They can be used to help you process your story in session as well as be used in other areas of your life.
Together we can explore the approach that will best suit you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have many years experience of working within the statutory agencies, working with adults as well as with adolescents.
Counselling Supervision Certificate 2016
Comprehensive Resource Model (Basic) 2015
Advanced CRM with Core Self 2015
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1. 2012
Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling. 2007
Human Relations and Counselling Skills. 1997
Member organisations
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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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
We can make a significant breakthrough in understanding our feelings and experiences on a rational level by talking to a therapist. However, just talking about them may activate the very feelings we need to process. Feelings such as fear, rage, grief, disgust or shame may trigger our brain and body into a defense response of fight, flight, freeze or dissociation and so we remain unable to fully process the feelings and experiences and may remain stuck or find ourselves returning to therapy again with similar unresolved issues.
Through training as well as my own personal therapy I have an understanding about how trauma affects our brain and body. I have a repertoire of tools that facilitate brain and body safety. The use and practice of these resources allow us to step into and through our most difficult experiences.
The resources may be taught from the very first session, allowing for the processing of the story, but also for use in between sessions.
The use of these resources has allowed me to step fully into, and through my own trauma. As a result, my life seems to flow more easily, I find myself more able to set goals and follow through, I feel more connected within myself and this sense of feeling connected extends to my relationships.
Fee;
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Additional information
Counselling-£55 1 hr. Counselling.
Supervision- Free initial ½ hr. meeting thereafter £55 1 hr.
When I work
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Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Last appointment 5.00 p.m.
Further information
I have provided training/workshops in ;
Mindfulness
Self-Harm
Working with Young People
Early Developmental Trauma
Resourcing.
Introduction to Comprehensive Resource Model