Tanja Baker
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About me
People come from all walks of life to me. This could be because they are experiencing difficult emotions such as anxiety, panic, family issues, relationship issues, depression, grief or sadness. Perhaps you have been diagnosed with ADHA or Autism later in life, this can have a big impact on your life, you might want to explore this further. I have extensive experience with neurodiversity in my personal and professional life. I work with CBT/ DBT and mindfulness for people with ADHD, which has proven to be successful. It may be that you have a problem you would like to explore further. I may be able to help you make sense and help you understand your thoughts and feelings. Counselling gives you the time and space to explore difficult thoughts and feelings. It gives you the space where you feel held and really listened to, it will help you find resilience, balance, great strength and meaning. My personal passion is spirituality and nature, I love working with an eco-therapeutic approach which gives great benefits to both your emotional and physical health.
My training was Person-centered, encompassed with other skills such as CBT, Gestalt and Psychodynamic. I now work as an integrative counsellor with a strong person- centered approach at heart. This means all my clients are listened to and are at the center of the sessions, I see each client as a unique individual. I will walk with you by your side and hold space for you, while you are in charge of your own therapeutic journey. I will give you professional support in finding clarity and self-understanding, sometimes using help through painting, clay work or Sand Tray work, if this is what you would want. I adapt my sessions to suit you, offering different ways of working, but I always take your lead to guide our work. I have personal interest in eco-therapy and spirituality. I offer ‘walk and talk’ sessions in the beautiful Somerset or Dorset country site. I have experience in mindfulness skills and guided meditation along with mindfulness for ADHD.
I have great understanding in working with adults, young people, older adults, couples and families. I have worked in agencies and gave support in a secondary school to staff and students. I have vast experience in working with neurodiversity, learning difficulty, grief, anxiety and loneliness along with everything else that comes up on the path of life. I work online through Zoom, over the phone and face to face in my very cozy Log Cabin, along with ‘walk and talk’ sessions.
I offer individual counselling; couples work and family support I do offer some group work.
I am a trained Holistic Integrative Arts Therapies Practitioner. This training incorporates, art using paints, clay work, music, sand tray work, movement and journaling work, mindfulness and meditation work.
I have been working with 2wish. bereavement charity. 2wish, set up in Wales in 2012, is now operating in Bristol, Somerset and Gloucestershire. 2wish is a bereavement charity which supports anyone affected by the sudden and unexpected death of a child or young person.
Moving from Germany to England 28 years ago, travelling a lot throughout my childhood and younger years, has given me a healthy curiosity about different cultures and people, I can easily relate to people.
What to expect at our first meeting:
At our first introductory meeting, you will have a chance to get to know me, as well as voicing how you are at the moment and what it is you would like to explore. You might be able to express what it is you would like to talk about, or it might just be a feeling or a thought you would like to explore, whatever it is you would like to work on, I will give you the space to talk about it. The meeting will be very informal, but boundaries will have to be set in place to work safe and ethically for both of us. You will be able to ask me questions about how I work.
I hope that you will feel comfortable and deeply understood by me from the start of our first session.
Please note that there is no obligation if you decide you do not wish to go ahead.
If you feel you want to go ahead with seeing me again and entering into a contract with me, we will schedule a meeting for the following week. We would look at the Counselling agreement, and we would agree on six weeks of sessions to start off with, after those 6 weeks we would review if you wanted to carry on or if you would like to stop the sessions.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Member of the The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).
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I hold a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and a Certificate in Holistic Integrated Creative Arts Therapies Practitioner. I have experience of working with children and young people, couples and families. I offer group sessions in Eco Therapy and Group Dynamics. I run a private practice, I provide mindfulness, eco-therapeutic help, art courses and movement to music courses.
I have been teaching in secondary schools, colleges and students in their homes for over 20 years, most of this time I was working with children and young people in a SEND environment. Through this I have gained extensive knowledge and experience in working with neurodivergence, special educational and social and emotional needs.
I update my training and skills on a regular basis, in areas such as counselling, eco therapy, grief, mindfulness and emotional wellbeing, addiction, just to name some of them.
- I hold an enhanced DBS certificate.
- I am qualified as a Holistic Integrated Creative Arts Therapies Practitioner
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.
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a reduced £25 fee for the first initial 1/2 hour; this session is there for you to get to know me and for us to see if we want to work together.
I have some low cost counselling spaces for people on low or no income. (Non available at the moment).
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I offer some Saturday morning sessions up on request.
Further information
I offer walk and talk sessions. You are in charge of your sessions and I will be there to hold the space for you with the help of nature. Walk and talk is such a lovely way to work, as you can corporate nature into the sessions. Nature is an amazing healing space to work in. It also is a non threatening way to work, as we walk alongside each other. This suits anybody that loves being in nature or prefers moving whilst talking.
