Walter Baxter
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This professional is currently not accepting new clients and may not respond to general enquiries at this time.
This professional is currently not accepting new clients and may not respond to general enquiries at this time.
About me
If you choose to come to me for counselling you will find it a safe place to explain and explore what is bothering you. In your own words and only as quickly as you are comfortable, I will encourage you to help me understand what is troubling you including how it is affecting your feelings and emotions. I will be non-judgmental while helping you define and clarify why your problem is troubling you. You will also find me willing to help you say what you cannot say on your own. You can trust me to keep what we talk about confidential and not share it with anyone else in your life. You will find me honest, caring and sensitive. You will feel that your worth and value as an individual person is respected. You and I will work together, discussing and weighing up possible solutions to the problems that brought you to counselling. You will feel supported, empowered and motivated in your journey to resolve the problems that are disturbing you.
The answers to your problems may come in the form of a new understanding or perspective. You may find some new way to personally accept an answer to the problem that previously you had discounted. You may be able to decide on a course of action to change the situation that is causing you concern. Your counselling may help you acquire new life skills that allow you to more effectively deal with the problem should it arise again in the future. You could find a new appreciation for how you really feel about a particular issue. In short, you may learn a different way to see the world so that your problems are more easily resolved. You also may find the answer to your difficulties is in widening your social circle. You may feel energised and want to be around other people and their company more than you have in the past. In whatever form the answers to your problems come, in general, you will find you are feeling differently and as a result, can move forward once again in your life.
Training, qualifications & experience
Masters in Counselling, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee
COSCA Counselling Supervision Certificate
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Specialist Certificate in Cyberculture: Online Counselling, Online Training Institute
Specialist module in Bereavement and Loss, CRUSE Bereavement Care Scotland
Post Qualifying Certificate: Counselling Children and Young People, Simpson House Training
Graduate Certificate in Counselling Skills, University of Abertay Dundee
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.
COSCA is the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, and seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills by promoting best practice and through the delivery of a range of sustainable services. COSCA Counsellor Accreditation is a pathway to entry onto the UKRC. It is a requirement of all individual and organisational members of COSCA to abide by its Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice and be accountable to the Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
£50.00 per session
Additional information
Face to Face Counselling
Initial assessment:............................................................£25.00
Counselling session:........................................................£50.00 per 50 minute session
Online or Telephone Counselling
Video Conferencing, telephone:..........£50.00 per 50 minute session
When I work
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Tuesday to Thursday 9.00am to 4.30pm.
