Veronique Briant
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About me
I am a BACP (Accred) relationship therapist and supervisor with over ten years’ experience working with individuals and couples across the UK. I offer sessions by Zoom and phone, welcoming adults of all ages, genders, and backgrounds.
I’m truly committed to this work and strive to create a safe, supportive, and engaging environment where you can speak openly about whatever is on your mind.
Whether you’re facing personal challenges, dealing with anxiety and uncertainty, or wanting to explore relationship concerns, making space for therapy can be incredibly supportive. I also support clients experiencing the journey of ADHD - whether undiagnosed or diagnosed.
Thinking About Therapy?
You don’t need to be in crisis to find therapy helpful. You might just feel a bit unsure, unsettled, or in need of a confidential space to make sense of things. However, if you are facing something overwhelming, therapy can be the place to unpack, rest and re-route.
What It’s Like to Work With Me
My style is warm, attentive, and actively engaged. I provide a space to smooth the path for you to speak freely, recognise patterns, and feel understood. I will be in dialogue with you in an approachable and encouraging way, enabling you to talk about whatever is on your mind.
I hope you will find counselling both enjoyable and enriching. For testimonials follow this link
I work with issues relating to:
- Family and relationships: exploring relationships, creating family and managing difficult life and family experiences.
- Couples work: I work with couples all over the UK for both relationship MOT's - a tune-up - and for more pressing, critical work.
- Building self-esteem: experiences of loneliness, self-doubt,, distrust and uncertainty.
- Anxiety, depression and low mood: including panic, phobias, ADHD, OCD, worry-loops and self-harm.
- Addictions, co-dependency: self-harming patterns of behaviour. I also work with 'Adult Children of Alcoholics/Addicts/Disfunctional Families'
- Career stress: managing work-life balance, stress at work, career issues, redundancy and change.
- Identity and roles: life and identity questions, divorce and separation, community, menopause/mid-life and sexuality.
- I am also a qualified Supervisor supporting therapists around the UK in their clinical practice.
Couple Work
These sessions are designed to feel constructive and collaborative, helping you both notice familiar patterns, communicate more openly, and reconnect with each other. Wherever you are in your relationship, taking this time together can bring understanding and ease difficult conversations.
For couples considering separation the work helps define possible pathways. I offerer a structured space to talk things through and agree how the future might look.
For couples, a longer session of 1hr 20 mins is recommended. There's more information regarding couple therapy on my website.
Choosing a Therapist
It can be daunting finding a therapist to work with and I am happy to speak with you beforehand so you can choose if there's a fit. I'm also available for an introductory call - see the link on this page.
My Theoretical Approach
I am broadly humanistic and relational in my approach. Transactional Analysis (TA) is my main theoretical model, alongside Gestalt therapy; NLP, person-centred and schema therapy. The work combines openness, collaboration, and human-ness to explore experiences and possibilities.
Session fees
Individual sessions are £70 for 50 minutes and £80 for 1 hour (either by Zoom or telephone). Couple sessions are by Zoom at £110 for 1 hr and £140 for the 1hr 20 min longer sessions.
Training, qualifications & experience
My training/qualifications include:
- BACP Accredited Diploma in Humanistic, Integrative Counselling (Tansactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy & Person-Centred) equiv Level 6 (Wealden College of Psychology) 2016
- BACP Accredited Status (achieved 2020) - I am BACP Accredited - a further designation, demonstrating high standards of knowledge, experience, development and integrity
- Diploma in Supervision 2021
- Ongoing CPD/courses including sex & relationship courses; safe-guarding & assessment; ethics & professionalism; identity & gender expression; LGBTQI+ affirmative therapy; issues surrounding OCD and ADHD; working relationally and maximising supervision
- NLP Qualified Practitioner
- Certificate in Online Counselling - certified counsellor in telephone & online counselling
- AXA Health Insurance accredited psychotherapist
History & Experience: I became interested in my own personal development in 1997 and undertook courses both in the UK and abroad. I also became involved in support group work.
In 2007, I qualified as an NLP Practitioner as an adjunct to my training skills in the corporate environment. I liked the idea of changing what wasn't helpful, and there are various NLP exercises that can support mind and body in facilitating positive change. In 2009 I co-facilitated the Family Aftercare Support Group at an addiction treatment centre in Ontario, Canada.
As part of my membership with the BACP, I adhere to an ethical and professional framework. I have full practitioner liability insurance.
Insurance
- WPA
- AXA Private Health Insurance
- Aviva, Vitality, Vita Health and PLE Health
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.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Relationship counselling/support for couples and individuals
- Adult children of alcoholics/addicts
- Co-dependency
- Families of alcoholics/addicts
- Issues around caring for others
- Life changes/family/career burn-out/work-life balance
- Isolation, anxiety and self-esteem
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I charge £70 for individual counselling (for a 50 minute session) and £80 for a 1 hour session.
Couples sessions are charged at £110 with longer sessions available at £140. There is more information available regarding the format of sessions on my website.
When I work
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I am seeing clients online - via Zoom - and sessions are also available for individuals by phone. Sessions can be arranged from 08.00am weekdays.
Further information
Clients work with me on Zoom and by telephone. I send you a personal link for your Zoom sessions, or if you are undertaking counselling by phone, I will call you at your designated time for the duration of your session. For further information, please call or email me. There is also further information on my website.
