Suzanne Gentry
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About me
Hello, I’m Suzanne. I offer therapeutic counselling rooted in care for you and your world. My counselling rooms and gardens are set in the beautiful Suffolk countryside, providing you with respite alongside qualified empathic companionship to enable you in your healing journey. Find my practice at https://www.affinitycounsellingsuffolk.co.uk/
Why choose Counselling?
While you are alone with your experiences, there is so much daily challenge. The burden on you can feel exhausting. Counselling can help you make sense of the life issues you have faced and the mental health stress you are experiencing. Counselling provides trusted, safe companionship to support you in finding your way forward into a better space. Counselling helps you ‘feel’ safely and ‘process’ emotions and thoughts in your own time. This helps you manage mental stress in more useful ways. Be it deep sadness, fear, anger, anxiety, or shame, when you are with someone who accepts and welcomes you, it can be okay to feel and let go, to find the wisdom in what is happening to you, to feel better about yourself, to realise you are doing okay. To feel fulfilled about life.
About Me
My name is Suzanne, my practice is Affinity Counselling Suffolk
The practice is based in the beautiful Suffolk countryside, with access to comfortable counselling rooms, rural walks, and peaceful gardens. I offer a caring, non-judgmental, confidential relationship in which you can share the issues, challenges and burdens you are experiencing. I provide a calm, warm, safe and welcoming space for you to become at ease with yourself and find healing through self-understanding and acceptance. I believe we all instinctively know our own healing path, which activates in safe nurturing spaces, connecting us to our own personal truth, confidence, and wisdom.
I am trained and experienced in providing therapeutic, emotional, and relational support to adults over 14. I offer long or short-term counselling, face-to-face, telephone or internet video link counselling. I am registered with the BACP.
About My Approach
I follow a Pluralist counselling framework which acknowledges different people are helped by different methods at different times. It is a flexible approach that utilises concepts, strategies, and inventions from a wide range of therapeutic perspectives and methods which best suit an individual at a relevant moment. Research clearly shows the most useful therapy is one that fits you. As the client, you are able to guide and collaborate in your own therapy, recognising what is effective for you and communicating back what is helpful, supportive and meaningful. The approach develops your self-awareness and self-confidence and gives you an understanding of your personal needs. It helps you to establish your own independent therapeutic strategies for life.
The approach acknowledges the language of self-expression comes in many forms. Relational connection through conversation can be enhanced by the use of art practices, mindfulness, spiritual practice, walking therapy, music, and contact with nature. These contemplative practices encourage nervous regulation and allow you to express challenging experiences safely.
If you would like to contact me, please connect here via email where we can arrange a telephone conversation to further discuss your needs.
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Training, qualifications & experience
- High national diploma in foundation-level counselling.
- BA (Hon degree in Integrative Counselling.•
- Continual ongoing CPD, including courses in:
- Polly Vagal Theory, Bereavement and Loss, and Pluralistic Counselling.
- 3 years working in Private practice serving many long-term clients,
- Counsellor at The Benjamin Foundation's - three-year
- MTCIC one-year training placement.
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Fees
£45.00 per session
