Therese Thomson
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
- 26 Years Experience: NHS, Counselling Centres and Private Practice
- Face to face and online appointments
- Warm, down to earth, professional
- Individuals and Couples
Having worked in the public and private sector, I have extensive therapeutic experience in many areas. These include anxiety, depression; feeling sad or hopeless; panic; abuse, bereavement, self harm, low confidence; work related stress; trauma; loss, family issues and difficulties in relationships. I specialise in anxiety and depression.
Confidentiality and anonymity will be upheld to the highest standards. As a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, you can be assured of safe and ethical counselling.
I am down to earth, warm and welcoming. Clients describe their counselling experience as professional, effective and life-changing.
Face to face counselling sessions are available at my East Kilbride and Strathaven Therapy Rooms with a safe therapeutic and physical environment.
How to Contact Me
You can email me on thomsoncounselling@gmail.com and I will email you back within 24 hour asking for a brief idea of what you would like my help with. If you would like to, we can make an initial appointment for a consultation at a time that suits you.
Online Counselling
Some people choose online counselling for convenience. You can choose a time that suits you and talk to me in confidence from the comfort of your own home. I work with clients online across the country and internationally.
Your First Session
I will email you all details in advance of your first session with my address, directions and a contact form.
It is important that you feel safe and comfortable with your Counsellor. So our first session will give you the opportunity to discuss the issues you would like help with, in full confidence.
Towards the end of our hour together, we discuss a way forward that is right for you. At this stage, you can arrange for further sessions if you would like to but there is no obligation to do so.
Sessions
Each session lasts one hour and the session fee is £65
Initial Couples Counselling involves a 90 minute session with a fee of £100
You will normally be offered an initial consultation within a few days.
Please get in touch for details.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience
I have worked for over 26 years in counselling. Including NHS counselling services, which covered a broad range of issues. At Lifelink in Glasgow, clients ranged from ages 12 to 90, and came from both GP and self referrals. Clients could have mild depression, life limiting anxiety, trauma, abuse or be actively suicidal.
I have also worked at Kerith Counselling and Agape in East Kilbride.
I run a successful Private Practice and also offer counselling on a voluntary basis for a children's charity.
My degree is in Psychology and I hold several postgraduate qualifications. These include Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling. As well as a PG Diplomas in Couples Counselling and working with young people.
Some of my Training & Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Psychology: University of Sussex
- Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling: Edinburgh
- Certificate in Relationship Counselling: Edinburgh
- Complicated Bereavement Counselling: Falkirk
- Counselling Victims of Domestic Abuse: Edinburgh
- Certificate in Mindfulness: Aberdeen
- Overcoming Loneliness and Isolation: London
- Counselling Young People: University of Strathclyde
- Online and Telephone Counselling (BACP Accredited)
- Coronavirus: Our Responses and Responsibilities (COSCA Accredited)
- Registered with Information Commissioner’s Office
- Disclosure Scotland / PVG
Member organisations
COSCA is the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, and seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills by promoting best practice and through the delivery of a range of sustainable services. COSCA Counsellor Accreditation is a pathway to entry onto the UKRC.
It is a requirement of all individual and organisational members of COSCA to abide by its Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice and be accountable to the Complaints Procedure. 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
Practical help with shyness and social anxiety
Managing Anxiety
Bereavement
Abuse
Trauma
Depression
Relationship issues
Family conflict
Grandparents and relational conflict
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
The session fee for a one hour Individual session is £65
The session fee for a 90 minute Couples session is £100.
You will normally be offered an initial appointment within 7 days.
Please get in touch for details.
You can email me at
thomsoncounselling@gmail.com
I will email you back within 24 hour asking for a brief idea of what you would like my help with. If you would like to, we can make an initial appointment for a consultation at a time that suits you.
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My mobile is switched off when I am with clients but I check my emails throughout the day and this is the easiest way to contact me. You can email me at:
thomsoncounselling@gmail.com
Further information
All communication is between between you and me. Nobody else will take your call or respond to your email. This applies from your initial email contact with me through to your final session. It is a completely personal counselling service and I will tailor your therapy according to your specific needs and goals.
Clients are kind enough to write to me when they finish therapy. Frequently, they will use similar words to describe me: 'approachable, warm, non-judgemental, experienced, knowledgeable, understanding and professional.'
Words they use to describe the personal change that the counselling process has brought about for them are “life changing” and “transformational.”
