Vicki McComish
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About me
Hello, in my practice you'll find a warm, genuine, professional and hopeful approach which works with your unique self, experiences, goals and needs. It is a calm and judgement-free space for you to feel able/safe enough to bring whatever is troubling, to make sense of what is going on for you and find relief and change for the better.
I am BACP-Accredited and I work in-person and online in the center of Norwich and in South Norfolk with all adults, couples and young people aged 14+.
We can start with a free 20-minute phone call or 30-minute in-person or online initial meeting to explore and for you to see whether I am the right therapist for you.
I can help with:
- anxiety
- depression, low mood, mood changes
- low self-esteem
- low self-confidence
- relationship issues
- family issues, conflict or estrangement
- stress
- burnout
- anger
- past or recent physical, sexual and emotional abuse
- subtle or covert abuse
- trauma and its impacts (including PTSD)
- challenges and distress associated with ADHD and autism
- high sensitivity (HSP )
- midlife difficulties
- perimenopause and menopause impacts
- bereavement and loss, including loss of a relationship
- identity exploration
- feeling sad or stuck
- personal development/growth
Please scroll down for a full list of issues I can help with.
How I work
I aim to be non-judgmental, warm, genuine and collaborative, to help you to feel better heard and understood, to help you better understand experiences of yourself, life, the past and others, to make sense of your patterns of thought, emotion, mood and behaviors, to unpack your doubts, fears, questioning and confusion, at a pace right for you, gaining more insight or clarity and working with you to bring relief, growth and change for you.
I offer person-centered talking therapy, in-person and online, and use ideas and practice from both CBT and the psychodynamic approach. I can offer practical ideas for grounding, emotional regulation and reducing thought distress where helpful.
Work With Couples
I aim to help couples to navigate and work through whatever they bring to counselling, with fairness, warmth, professionalism, honesty and humanity. We might look at how you got here, communication and connection, recurring patterns, infidelity, conflict/disagreement, mutual needs satisfaction, gender differences, distress and emotional arousal including anger, external stressors, what the best way forward is - whatever is appropriate to your situation.
Who I Work With
I work with adults of all ages, with young people aged 14+, and with couples. My work with adolescents and young adults is informed by 20 years of working with these age groups and in a youth counselling service, and my work with adults by my experience working in a local adult counselling charity and in private practice for six years with adults aged from 18 to 80.
Where I Work
I work both in Norwich, close to the city center (Tuesdays and Thursdays), and from my private and peaceful counselling space in South Norfolk (Mondays, Wednesdays and some Friday mornings).
Next Step
If this sounds right for you and you would like a free 20-minute conversation by phone or online, or to arrange an initial in-person exploratory session, please do contact me via your preferred means.
What to Expect in a First Session
An initial exploratory session is an opportunity to meet in person or online and work out if we are the right 'fit' for your counselling. I will ask what brings you to therapy now, and what you would like to gain from some sessions. I will aim to explain how counselling with me works in practice, and to answer any questions you may have. If further sessions with me turn out to be right for you, we can arrange a day and time that suits.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications and Experience
- Accreditation by BACP professional body (demonstrating 'practice that has met the BACP higher standard as a competent, ethical and independent practitioner')
- Post Graduate Diploma in Person-Centered Counselling - The Norwich Centre
- Certificate in Person-Centered Counselling - The Norwich Centre
- Employed and voluntary general counselling positions in local organizations with adults of all ages, and with young people aged 14-25 ( at MAP).
- In private practice since 2021
Continued Training in:
- Working safely with trauma, and with trauma that has become stuck
- Working with adult survivors of childhood trauma
- Couples Therapy online training with the Human Givens College
- Relationship rupture
- Spiritual Abuse
- Subtle/covert abuse
- Helping clients with OCD
- Working with Dissociation
- Working with male clients
- Working therapeutically with disordered eating
- Working with Body Image
- Working with shame
- Adult safeguarding
- Child safeguarding
- Impacts of domestic abuse
- Counselling and neurodiversity
- Thriving with Adult ADHD
- Counselling with young carers
- Menopause, and Menopause with Trauma background
- Working safely and effectively in online counselling
- Working with high sensitivity clients (HSP)
- Birth Trauma Training for Health Professionals
Other Professional Experience
- Supporting adolescents and young adults from diverse world cultures emotionally and academically in ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), in secondary schools, boarding schools and universities.
- Supporting students with special educational needs.
- I have lived and worked in France, Japan, Thailand and the Middle East, in addition to the UK.
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Intercultural Issues - for people with a multi-heritage or multi-national identity or background wanting to explore this, or experiencing difficulties related to difference, or wanting to explore difference.
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 - £60.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
- Some reduced-rate slots for students, trainees
- £75 per couples session
- monthly or instalment payment if preferred
- Initial free 20-30-minute exploratory session in person, by phone or online for you to see whether I am the right person for you.
When I work
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Further information
- On site parking available in South Norfolk
- In person or online counselling
- Payment by cash or transfer
- Monthly payment or payment in installments if requested
