Tracey Bowden
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About me
Hello and welcome, I hope you find my profile and information helpful in your counselling journey.
I'm a qualified integrative counsellor and an accredited registered member of the BACP, currently working with adults, young people and children, who experience many different issues including, anxiety, depression, stress, low self esteem and relationship issues.
I also have a strong grounding in attachment issues and working with Neurodiversity, including ADHD, ADD, sensory issues and Autism.
We seek counselling for many different reasons, maybe feeling disconnected to others and the world around you, but unsure why, or you may know what you want/need to explore and have clear goals and expectations. Sometimes we feel a need to change our perspective of life or explore difficulties happening now or from the past.
Whatever your feeling, together we can work through your thoughts and feelings in a non-judgmental space where you will be fully accepted for who you are, helping you to unravel whatever you choose to bring into the session, aiming to help you gain a better sense of yourself and your world.
I offer open-ended therapy, meaning you can choose yourself how long you want your counselling journey to be as well as choosing how you would like to work together, including online platforms in a completely confidential space, face to face either through home visits or through my garden counselling room. If you like the outdoors, I am also qualified to offer Walk and Talk counselling.
I have listed below some questions you might consider asking yourself before embarking on your counselling journey and I very much look forward to hearing from you. (I offer a free initial 30-minute phone or online consultation so you can consider if I could be the right counsellor for you)
(This is not an extensive list, there may be many other questions that would be relevant):
- What are my goals and expectations of therapy? or what am I hoping to achieve from counselling?
- Convenience of getting to and from the sessions.
- Do I feel comfortable in the space that is being offered?
- Do I feel comfortable with the counsellor?
- Does the counsellor have the experience in what I am wanting to talk about.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have enjoyed working across different ages through my career, including working with adults, children, young people and families for over 20 years.
My career path led me to change the way I work and became more interested in understanding about the issues we face in society and how they affect us. As a qualified Integrative counsellor, I continue to develop my own practice with regular training and through my interests in how the environment and life experiences affect us.
This is a list of some of the training that I have completed in the past year:
*Suicide prevention and awareness
*Creativity as a healing tool
*Safeguarding and prevent duty
*Self-harm
*Walk and Talk therapy
*Online working
*Genealogy
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
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
Therapies offered
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Fees
£48.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
£45.00 per session (50 minutes)
Free 20 minute informal consultation.
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Further information
I hold a certificate of proficiency (MBACP) The British association of counselling and psycotherapy, working under their codes of ethics.
I also hold a current advanced DBS and am fully insured.
