Wanderley Santos
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About me
In some moments in our lives, we need professional help when we can’t deal with difficult feelings alone. In these situations, it doesn’t matter if you are not feeling ready to start therapy. The most important thing is to be with someone you feel comfortable enough to express your concerns and feelings with. I am here to work with you no matter what your emotional difficulties may be.
Let me introduce myself: I am Wanderley Santos, a counsellor and psychotherapist working with children, young people and adults. I specialise in working with various emotional issues as well as considering how various elements, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, culture, nationality, disability, religion, age and others can affect a person’s wellbeing.
I am fully qualified and registered as a psychodynamic psychotherapist at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and at the Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB) working with children and young people.
I have more than fifteen years’ experience working in the mental health sector. In 2006, I graduated in Psychology and did a master's in Clinical Psychology based in philosophy and schizoanalysis, in my home country, Brazil. After being in the UK for a couple of years, I went on a journey to be requalified. So I did another master’s in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and a qualification in Intercultural Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, both courses at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Also, I did a level 4 certificate in counselling with children and young people at the Place2be.
I am a person who is genuinely interested in relationships. Maybe this is why I came to this field. In my professional capacity, I offer a supportive clinical environment for people to experience being themselves and work on their psychological needs.
I offer a space where my clients can be themselves and talk about whatever issues they are facing so we can work on them together.
I work individually with children, young people and adults.
I offer a long- and short-term therapeutic process.
I offer supervision
Training, qualifications & experience
I am qualified as an intercultural psychodynamic psychotherapist from the Tavistock Portman NHS Foundation Trust. I also hold a master’s degree in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the same institution. I am a trained psychologist with a master’s in Clinical Psychology from Brazil.
Since I continued my training in the UK, I have been working to help people improve their mental health and well-being within the NHS, the public sector and through other organizations. This has given me a better understanding of individuals’ struggles in life and my role in supporting them.
Currently, I work as a counsellor at the Student Welfare and Support Service at the University of Oxford, am a visiting lecturer at Goldsmith, University of London, and am a psychotherapist facilitator for a workshop concerning race and mental health at the Blam-UK.
This approach is suitable for:
Depression
Anxiety
Self-harm
Suicidal ideation
Suffering from an abusive relationship
Gender dysphoria
Sexuality and sexual identity
Male issues
Mood swings
Difficulties in making and keeping relationships
Feeling stuck in life
Bereavement or the feeling that something in life has been lost
Feelings of emptiness
Low self-confidence and self-sabotage
Experiencing discrimination (race, gender, sexuality, nationality, culture)
Anger management
Loss of direction
We are dealing with trauma: complex trauma, disasters, early childhood, and historical, traumatic grief.
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
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I conduct sessions in both English and Portuguese.
£70.00 - session of 50 minutes.
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