Teryll (Tess) Galley
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I work individually with adults, offering support with a range of issues including grief, loss, anxiety, change, relationships and daily life struggles.
I have a special interest in supporting people impacted by cancer, whether you are dealing with a diagnosis yourself, or supporting someone else with theirs.
How will counselling help you?:
- You are not alone. When you feel supported you alleviate the sense of isolation that often accompanies personal struggles.
- Feeling relieved. Sharing your problems helps you to feel emotionally lighter so that things don't feel quite so overwhelming, leaving you more able to cope in your daily life.
- Change and hope. When you gain a deeper understanding of the issues you are facing, you start to identify possible changes you can make. This brings hope for a more positive outlook on your life and your ability to overcome difficulties.
- Healthy coping mechanisms. Counselling equips you with tools and skills to enable you to navigate daily stresses and challenges more effectively. This reduces feelings of anxiety and overwhelm, improving your overall wellbeing.
Through my own personal experience of a cancer diagnosis in 2013, I am familiar with the fear, anxiety and chaos when normal life is turned upside down in an instant. I am also familiar with how isolated and vulnerable you can feel when faced with such a terrifying threat to your health and future.
Counselling helped me through a very challenging time, keeping me balanced and more settled in myself. Having somewhere to offload the worries and feelings I couldn’t share with the loved ones I wanted to protect, enabled me to feel more engaged with family and daily life.
I would like to support you through your own experience, because I know what a difference counselling can make.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been in private practice since 2017.
What is it like to work with me? - We work together to better understand the issues you are struggling with, to find some perspective, clarity and a way forward.
Advice? - You know your own feelings and experiences better than anyone else - I don't give you advice about these, but I do help you to explore and work through them so that you start to find your own answers and identify any changes might want to make.
That’s why our relationship is so important. It takes time to build trust in another person to allow yourself to feel safe enough to look at some really difficult and painful things. I aim to offer you the kind of relationship that enables you to do that.
The First Session - Our first session is an opportunity for us to talk about what is troubling you, to discuss in more detail your needs and hopes, and how we might take things from there. This session will also give us a sense of what it would be like to work together. There is no commitment to continue beyond the first session - it's important that we feel comfortable with one another and clear about the support I can offer you for the issues that you want to work through.
Professionally I keep up to date with subjects that are of particular interest to me and my client work, and the development of my practice.
Counselling Qualifications
- Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling (BCPC) - BACP accredited course
- Foundation Certificate in Bereavement Counselling - (Temenos Education)
- Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling - (Counselling Tutor)
As a Registered Member of BACP, I abide by the Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.
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
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This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
You do not have to be impacted by cancer to work with me. I also work with a variety of issues, including loss, grief, change, relationships, anxiety and daily life struggles.
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My standard fee is £55 per session
I offer a concessionary rate of £40 to trainee counsellors and full-time students
Sessions are 50 minutes and usually take place on a weekly basis
When I work
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I offer daytime appointments Monday, Tuesday & Thursday between 9am and 6pm.
I currently have availability for new clients.
Further information
How I offer counselling - I am experienced in working face-to-face, online and by telephone. You can have sessions purely in one way, or a combination – whatever works best for you. I run my practice from a private space in my home in a quiet village location near Marlborough in Wiltshire.
If you are wanting to have your sessions online or by telephone, it does not matter where you are located in the UK. You can have your sessions from the comfort of your own home if you have a quiet, confidential space where you feel comfortable to do so.
Short-term or Long-term - We may work together for just a few weeks (6-12 weeks), or this may develop into something longer term. We will review regularly to see how the counselling is going and will work together towards a final session when you feel ready.