This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hi and welcome to b4change Counselling service.
My name is Chenze and I am a qualified and highly experienced Counsellor/psychotherapist based in Chesterfield UK with over 24 years continuous experience and I work with children, young adults and adults throughout the Derbyshire area and online worldwide.
I am currently offering sessions face to face, online or by text message. Whatever your preference.
Sharing your worries and distress with a qualified and experienced therapist can make a huge difference to your well being.
I’m an empathic, qualified BACP registered Person-Centred Counsellor / Psychotherapist With 24 years of committed, conscientious and dedicated experience in providing exceptional support and building positive rapport with children, adolescents/young adults and adults of all ages who are experiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties.
I would like to hear from you to share your worries and anxieties and the two of us can shoulder the burden and work towards finding solutions or what ever it is you hope to achieve from our time together.
I look forward to finding out more about you.
Coping with difficult emotions, perhaps caring for others with little space left for yourself, taking the time you need to look after your mental health can be difficult. It’s not something you need to handle alone. I offer a safe and confidential space to explore the areas of your life that are troubling you.
Together we may discover how experiences of the past and present are impacting on the here and now and find ways to bring about constructive change and a new perspective.
Taking the first step towards psychotherapy takes courage. Whatever brings you, I will work with you to find ways of increasing understanding and clarity. Seeing things in a new light can increase our capacity to develop new ways of living well.
Whether you envisage therapy over the long term, or a short term focus, my experience and approach can offer help with:
- Family & relationship difficulties
- Addiction
- Abuse
- Coping with change
- Bereavement & loss
- Compulsive behaviours
- Eating problems
- Self harm
- Suicidal thoughts
- Feeling worthless or hopeless
- Anxiety & stress
- Identity & finding purpose in life
- Depression
- LGBTQ+
Just to mention a few.
About the therapy:
I have experience with a wide range of worries, distress and issues that include a change in mood, difficulty socialising, withdrawal from friends, family and others, low mood, depression, anxiety and panic attacks, trauma, identity/sexuality, relationship issues, loss/bereavement, eating problems/disorders, difference, abuse past and present. I welcome whatever issue(s) you may bring to therapy, with this in mind I offer both short and long-term counselling support .
To get started you can either call, text, or email me to set up an initial conversation to explore your best hopes from our relationship, then if you're happy to continue we will go forward from there.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Psychology: Chesterfield College
Certificate in Counselling: Sheffield Hallam University
Diploma in Person Centred Counselling: University of Warwick
A highly skilled, empathic qualified BACP registered Person-Centred Counsellor/Psychotherapist. With 24 years of committed, conscientious and dedicated experience in providing exceptional support and building positive rapport with children and adolescents who are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Currently working with the NHS counselling adults for Talking Mental Health Derbyshire as well as working directly with children and young people referred by schools and external agencies who are displaying emotional distress to provide a variety of interventions.
A demonstrable track record of successfully setting up and running projects working with diverse client populations in one-to-one and group settings. Instrumental in helping to set up inclusion projects across cluster schools and defining roles and responsibilities in Bedfordshire and Derbyshire from scratch.
Liaised and established the needs of each individual school, Implemented new policies, processes and procedures in accordance with government directives and re-evaluated and set up new referral pathways.
Working directly with children and young people referred by schools and external agencies who are displaying emotional distress to provide a variety of interventions. Establishing contact across schools to provide information concerning the counselling service and undertaking regular meetings with key staff to discuss a child’s needs and negotiate practical ways of working.
Designed and delivered training workshops for Children and young people’s Universal services; teaching staff/support staff, nurses, health Visitors, external agencies, MAT workers, G.P’s. Also delivered mental health training ‘an introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health’ workshops (Everybody’s business’ commissioned by the NHS)
Worked with Health, Education, Social Services and the voluntary sector to strengthen mental health services for children and adolescents at primary level. Provided mental health screening and assessment within CAMHS and the community. Provided consultation: through joint enquiry and exploration of young people and their families. Provided information, guidance and advice for young people and, workers and parents on a range of common mental health issues. Provided children and young people with 1:1 counselling support and therapeutic group work. Instrumental in setting up a therapeutic play pathway within Tier 3 within the NHS.
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
Fees
£40.00 - £50.00
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Introductory discount for all new and returning Children/Students, £40 per hour.
Adults students £45
Adults £50
Long term and block booking fees available on request.
Further information
I have a demonstrable track record of successfully setting up and running projects working with diverse client populations in one-to-one and group settings. I have been Instrumental in helping to set up inclusion projects across cluster schools and defining roles and responsibilities from scratch in both Bedfordshire and Derbyshire.
I have liaised and established the needs of each individual school, Implemented new policies, processes and procedures in accordance with government directives and re-evaluated and set up new referral pathways.
I Work directly with children and young people referred by schools and external agencies who are displaying emotional distress to provide a variety of interventions.
I have Established contact across schools to provide information concerning the Counselling service and undertaking regular meetings with key staff to discuss a child’s needs and negotiate practical ways of working.
I have designed and delivered training workshops for Children and young people’s Universal services; teaching staff/support staff, nurses, health Visitors, external agencies, Community team workers, GP’s. Also delivered mental health training ‘an introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health’ workshops (Everybody’s business’ commissioned by the NHS)
I have worked with Health, Education, Social Services and the voluntary sector to strengthen mental health services for children and adolescents at primary level. Provided mental health screening and assessment within CAMHS and the community. Provided consultation: through joint enquiry and exploration of young people and their families. Provided information, guidance and advice for young people and, workers and parents on a range of common mental health issues. Provided children and young people with 1:1 Counselling support and therapeutic group work. Instrumental in setting up a therapeutic play pathway within Tier 3 for the NHS.
