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This professional is accepting new clients but may have a waitlist. Please enquire with them directly to discuss availability.
About me
Hi, I’m Yarrow (they/them), a counsellor and psychotherapist and the founder of Dandelion Roots Therapy. I work in a way that’s person-centred, integrative, inclusive and relational. I always place your needs and values at the centre of our therapeutic work, while embracing your freedom and autonomy. My practice is open to anybody and everybody who feels drawn to work with me, from all walks of life. I take an affirmative approach in encouraging you to bring any and all parts of your unique self; I take care not to pathologise or criticise you.
Alongside talking therapy, I also have a special interest and passion in working creatively, using somatic approaches and embodiment practices. I strongly believe that as well as talking, there are many different ways for us to communicate and express our feelings and experiences. Examples of things I might encourage you to explore include imagery, puppets, sand trays, paint, clay, poetry, dreams and metaphors.
I work very relationally, and I believe therapy can only be effective if there’s a strong therapeutic relationship at the heart of it. I’m interested in exploring what goes on in the therapeutic process and how this may mirror dynamics you’re experiencing in your wider life and relationships.
I am committed to working intersectionally and using anti-oppressive practice, and to the ongoing learning and reflection that working in this way requires. I will, where necessary, bring in my lived experience to support the process and the relationship. For example, this could relate my own intersectional identity as a queer, trans, neurodivergent person.
I’ve worked in the charity sector for 15 years, which has involved working with a lot of complex mental health issues, risk, safeguarding, and supporting a diverse range of people from age 13 upwards.
I’m a member of the BACP regulating body, which means I follow their ethical framework.
Training, qualifications & experience
My core training is in Person-Centred counselling. Over the course of five years, I completed a Level 2, Level 3 and Level 5 BACP-accredited diploma in Person-Centred counselling.
As mentioned above, I’ve worked in the charity sector for 15 years, which has involved working with a lot of complex mental health issues, risk, safeguarding, and supporting a diverse range of people from age 13 upwards. I’ve worked as a mental health recovery worker, supporting women (including trans people) in supported accommodation who were survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. I’ve also worked for a charity supporting women (again, including trans people) in contact with the criminal justice system, which included providing emotional, practical and advocacy support both during their time in prison and upon release. I’ve worked as an addiction recovery worker, supporting people in their recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, and providing emotional and practical support around reintegration. Most recently, I’ve spent over seven years working for a young people’s mental health charity as a counsellor and psychotherapist, providing one-to-one counselling, therapy, youth work and advocacy to young people aged 13-25. I've worked in-person, by video and over the phone.
I’ve undertaken a wide range of additional training, including (but not limited to) training in the following areas:
- Suicide and self-harm
- Safeguarding children and adults
- Creative ways of working therapeutically
- Solution-focused therapy
- Transactional analysis
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Deep puppetry
- Anti-racism
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
As well as the areas listed at the bottom of my profile, I also work with the following specialist areas:
- LGBTQIA+ identities
- Shame
- Coming out
- Trauma (PTSD/C-PTSD, presentations which may attract a diagnosis of personality
- disorder)
- Estrangement and care experience (including LAC)
- Experience of homelessness
- Loss/bereavement (including loss of animals)
- All relationships (including ethical non-monogamy, BDSM, friendships and other non-traditional relationship structures)
- GSRD
- Existential crises
- Life-changing transitions
Therapies offered
Photos & videos
Fees
Additional information
I work face-to-face, by video and by telephone.
Face-to-face sessions are held at Levenshulme Old Library where I have my own therapy room. Ground floor and fully wheelchair accessible.
My fee is £60 per 50-minute session.
It’s really important to me that my practice is accessible to people who may be struggling to meet the cost of basic needs. So, I always hold limited places at a reduced rate of £35.
If you’re a counselling or therapy student, I offer limited places at a lower rate of £45 per 50-minute session.
Sessions are usually weekly, but there is also the option to have fortnightly sessions, or 90-minute sessions if needed.
I can offer short-term counselling if you have a specific problem you’d like to work on. Sometimes this can be enough, or sometimes other things may emerge, and we might choose to extend and continue our work.
I offer a free 30-minute chemistry call, which is an opportunity for you to ask questions about how I work and to share more about what you’re looking for in therapy. I know how daunting it can be to find the right therapist, so this is a way of getting a sense of whether we’d work well together, and there is no obligation to continue after this initial call.
Further information
I'm Manchester based for in-person sessions, but love working with folks from anywhere in the UK online. I work with young people and adults, from age 13 upwards.
