Tara Anderssen
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About me
Participating in your own life is what is most empowering. There is no better time to invest in yourself than now.
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Are life's challenges getting on top of you? Is there something about your life you really want to change but don’t know how? My bespoke one-to-one sessions are tailored to each client’s individual needs. The therapy I offer can help with:
Anxiety, Stress, Fear, and Panic attacks
Depression, Despair, feeling stuck, and the Management of painful feelings
Grief, Bereavement, and Loss
Childhood abuse, Sexual, Physical, Emotional, and Institutional abuse
Trauma, PTSD, Dissociation and Personality Disorders
Self-esteem, Confidence, Shame, and feeling 'not enough'
Relationships, Work and Family conflicts
This list is not an exhaustive one, so please get in touch if you are experiencing other difficulties. Please also take a look at my website, or read on.
A bit of Background: I am an Integrative, Holistic, and Transpersonal psychotherapist and counsellor. I have been working in private practice and in the voluntary sector since 2003. I am a registered member of BACP and UKCP. I work online, and have a private practice in Kingston upon Thames and Hampton Hill providing in-person sessions for individuals/adults, and counselling students around a wide range of issues.
What I'm like as a therapist: I bring all of me into my work. I care deeply about my clients and the situations they are struggling with without judgement. My training and experiences enable me to foster and maintain deep and sustained emotional contact, and a supportive relationship that empowers and embraces difference and diversity. You will be welcomed in your individual diversity, race, class, gender, neurodiversity, and spiritual/religious/sexual orientation in a respectful and professional way. I believe that to truly transform our lives in a lasting way, we need to engage from the roots. For some clients working in depth, including with soul-loss, brings a way of accessing a deeper wisdom and reconnecting with parts of themselves that have fragmented, been disowned, or frozen in time. The approaches I use facilitate the exploration of the underlying, repressed, and unconscious patterns that may have been directing your life, and influencing your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and relationships beneath your conscious awareness. Rediscovering these split-off parts can bring a sense of wholeness.
My Approach: I bring to my work a unique alchemy by using a broad range of therapeutic approaches, which means that I seek to develop a way of working with you which is especially tailored for you, in order to facilitate the transformation you yearn for. The approaches I draw from I draw especially from Humanistic, Relational, Psychodynamic, Existential, Jungian, Archetypal and Transpersonal approaches, In Psychoanalytic work the emphasis is on how past patterns repeat themselves, and also can transform themselves, in the present. Existential and Jungian approaches offer specific methods to relieve the manifestations of particular difficulties. Transpersonal practice draws from that creative renewal for living, through the exploration of dreams, myths, creative mediums and imagination to address issues about ‘way of life’, which can have a surprising impact on specific life difficulties. Or, we may explore transpersonal matters such as meaning, calling, soul, ecology and the more-than-personal. Integrative psychotherapy draws from the wisdom of the psyche and its creative and integrative functions to widen perspective, release feeling, to address deep-rooted emotional concerns, to increase self-awareness, and to open doors to new life possibilities. Today, I bring these experiences and approaches together in an eclectic approach to a healing practice.
How Therapy Can Help: Throughout the years, I have seen how working with a therapist can be especially helpful in terms of having a positive relationship with another person who really listens, is sensitive to our needs, and to the issues that we face in life and in today's society. Being truly seen, heard and valued by another is often a rare occurrence. This is especially true for those of us who had difficult family relationships in childhood.
You might think that you just have to learn to communicate better or be less 'this way' and more 'that way', or you may convince yourself that you should be able to stay connected by sheer will power, or a change in behaviour, but in reality, these coping strategies leave us feeling empty. The work of healing requires human connection and genuine care, that is why this work is so creative and profound for both the client and therapist. something happens in therapy that would not happen if you were talking to a friend or considering things by yourself, so whatever your reasons are for coming to therapy; I am here to support you, and hold a space for you in a way that allows you to get in touch with the the healing potential and the compassion within you. A space where you can connect with your wholeness and your longing to live, fully alive and fully awake.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
Diploma in Integrative Psychosynthesis Counselling
Post-Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Experience:
Since 2003, I have worked with clients from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of issues, including anxiety, depression and loss of meaning, bereavement and loss, abuse, trauma, chronic shame, dissociation, Anger, relationship difficulties, domestic violence, isolation and withdrawal, difficulties involving difference, discrimination and marginalisation, life transitions and creative self-discovery.
I have experience of working therapeutically with more complex issues, such as PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Physical, Emotional, Sexual, Institutional Abuse, with neurodiverse clients, counselling students and artists.
Professional Development Training:
Pan London Drug Misuse Training for Primary Care: Health Promotion and Disease Management
Working with Somatisation and Trauma - Body Psychotherapy
Working Therapeutically With The Body
Working with Trauma and Dissociation in Clinical Practice
Working with Transgenerational/Ancesral Trauma
Safeguarding Adults with Learning Disabilities
Institutional Abuse – Its Causes and Effects
Attachment Theory and Learning Disability
·Mental Health and People with Learning Disabilities
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Life transitions, support for the end of life, spiritual crisis and emergence, post-trauma resilience, soul loss and loss of meaning, and institutional abuse.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £75.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer online sessions, face-to-face sessions, and telephone sessions. The sessions are 50 minutes long. Online and telephone sessions are £60 per session, and face-to-face sessions are £75 per session. I have a limited number of concessions for those on low-income and for students (Online and telephone sessions only); please contact me to enquire about availability.
I offer a free 15-minute telephone appointment. Feel free to arrange an introductory telephone session if you have any questions about counselling.
Please contact me by email or by telephone if you would like to arrange an initial assessment session, during which time, we can explore your reasons for coming to therapy, as well as exploring how we can best work together. This enables you to see whether therapy can be beneficial.
I work from private offices located in Kingston upon Thames and Hampton Hill. I work with clients from the surrounding Surbiton, Norbiton, Richmond, Sheen, Wandsworth, Twickenham and Putney areas.
When I work
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Further information
I offer a free 15-minute telephone appointment. Feel free to arrange an introductory telephone session if you have any questions.
Please contact me by email or by telephone if you would like to arrange an initial assessment session, during which time, we can explore the issues you are struggling with, your reasons for coming to therapy, your hopes and fears, as well as exploring how we can best work together. This enables you to see whether therapy can be beneficial.
I offer weekly sessions on an open-ended basis. Depending on your needs and circumstances, we can assess the length and frequency of sessions together.
