Tisha Kachhapati
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About me
Feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or weighed down by depression? If life feels challenging right now, you're not alone. I specialize in working with clients who are struggling with self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, often using denial and avoidance to cope with grief, hopelessness, stress, and a sense of being 'stuck.' Together, we'll create a safe and confidential space where you can explore and discuss even the most difficult feelings.
Approach to Therapy
Using a psychodynamic approach, I help clients unravel the unconscious behaviors that may be negatively impacting their lives. By increasing awareness and understanding, we can work towards creating meaningful changes. Whether it's explosive anger, panic attacks, or avoidant behaviors, I'm here to support you through trauma, mood disorders, and grief.
Services Offered
Located in Colchester, Essex, I offer high-quality counselling and psychotherapy services in a warm and inviting environment just off the High Street in Colchester City Centre. In addition to private practice, I also work at St Helena Hospice, providing support to clients with palliative and bereavement counselling across most age groups.
Client-Centered Approach
I tailor my approach to fit the unique needs of each client. With children, I utilise creative therapies to interpret their inner world through playfulness. With young people and adults, I focus on the present while reflecting on their journey to this point and exploring how past experiences may be influencing their current challenges.
Available Spaces and Therapy Options:
I currently have spaces available for individuals aged 16 and above. I offer both short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (10-20 sessions on a weekly basis) and long-term psychotherapy (open-ended work on a weekly basis).
Culturally Inclusive Practice:
My practise is culturally and diversity-informed, welcoming clients from all backgrounds, including people of colour (POC) and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
- Master of Science in Psychology with Graduate Basis for BPS membership from the University of Essex (2018)
- Master of Arts degree in Psychodynamic Counselling (BACP accredited course) from the University of Essex (2021)
Additional Training:
- Adult Safeguarding Level 3
- Child Safeguarding Level 3
- GDPR (Data protection + GDPR)
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Training
- Oliver McGowan Training on Learning Disability & Autism
Suicide Awareness Training
Experience:
- St Helena Hospice: IPU and Bereavement Counsellor (pre and post-death) with children, young people, adults, and older adults
- Stockwell Centre: Associate member working with adults in private practice
- 4YP Suffolk: School counsellor working with secondary school students
- Y.E.S. Colchester: Counsellor working with young people in a charity setting
- The Gilberd School: Trainee counsellor working with young people in a school setting
- Philip Morant School & College: Trainee counsellor working with young people in a school setting
Memberships:
- Registered member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Accredited registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
Member organisations
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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.
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
- Grief
- low self-esteem
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
To ensure effective scheduling and respect for both your time and mine, please note that I have a 48-hour cancellation policy in place. Any cancellations made within 48 hours of your scheduled appointment will be subject to the full session fee, including no-shows. This policy allows me to manage my schedule effectively and ensures that available appointment slots can be utilised by those in need of support.
When I work
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I am currently offering session slots at 14:00 and 16:00 on Wednesdays. For those interested, please inquire about the possibility of fortnightly sessions at 13:00 on Wednesdays.
Further information
All counselling sessions will take place at a convenient high street location in Colchester City Centre. Once we've agreed on a time and date for your session, I'll provide you with the necessary paperwork and instructions outlining what to expect before our meeting.
