This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
My intention is to create a warm and friendly relationship within which you will feel at home. The most important thing is for you find someone you feel you can trust. Being able to open up about what's on your mind allows confusing and difficult issues to be worked through. Without trust, important information can remain obscured. Sometimes we may not even realise we are holding back details until we are with someone who we know doesn't judge or shame. During an initial, no-obligation session, we can explore whether you feel I am such a person.
I have been told by other clients that I am a warm, compassionate therapist, with excellent empathy and listening skills. I strive to create a safe space for my clients within which they feel able to explore the events and issues which have been troubling them.
I am qualified in person-centred counselling and I have a PhD in the field of trauma-informed care where I researched child sexual abuse. This has given me a lot of experience working with distress, fear, anxiety, social injustice, suicidal thoughts and overwhelm or confusion. Moving towards happier, less unsettled times involves addressing the issues and also learning how to make plans and bring them to fruition. All of these aspects of therapy I can work with you on, as well as teaching stabilisation techniques and practices as I have an MSc in Mindfulness Based Approaches, and I taught yoga for more than 25 years. If you want to learn meditation as part of therapy that is possible.
While the main focus of our work may be talking therapies, these other modalities can be drawn upon if you would like, especially if we are addressing anxiety, trauma distress and dissociation.
Please visit my website to read more about me and the way I work.
https://www.susannaalyce.com
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Person-centred Counselling
- PhD in Applied Psychology
- MSc in Mindfulness-Based Approaches
- British Wheel and Iyengar Yoga Teaching Diplomas, and Scaravelli Approach supervision
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
£55.00 per session
Additional information
Block bookings and concessions by arrangement