Yvette Brook
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About me
Hi, I’m Yvette, a qualified Psychotherapist who works 1 to 1, with adults. I offer an honest and respectful relationship, in which I hold no preconceptions or expectations of you. Through talking and exploring together, I can support you to find new ways of thinking, feeling, and understanding yourself, which will help you to manage the challenges in your life.
Before training to be a Psychotherapist, I worked as a Midwife for the NHS, and I raised my 3 sons. I have worked in various support roles including with victims of domestic abuse, vulnerable parents, autistic people, and parents of autistic children. This life and work experience has equipped me with the skills to build trusting, supportive and validating relationships with clients, with the knowledge that everyone’s experience is unique and personal to them.
I have had experience and success working with people who are struggling because of their relationships, depression, anxiety (including health anxiety), anger, and other dominant emotions. I also have experience working with people who have been oppressed because of difference and diversity including people who recognise themselves as being autistic or having ADHD. Neurodiversity is an area in which I have personal and professional experience. I class myself as neurodivergent. My own experience prompted me to carry out post-graduate research on psychotherapy and autism, which has since been published.
I am an integrative trained psychotherapist which means that I am able to draw on a number of therapeutic approaches depending on your needs. The therapeutic approach I use the most is gestalt, which considers your mind and body together, and how your past impacts your current experiences. I also draw on psychodynamic theory which involves exploring your childhood, and your patterns of relating to others.
I work with clients weekly, usually over a period of months or years. I work in-person from the Meridian Counselling Centre in Birmingham and I also work in-person from a therapy room in Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield. For people who prefer, I offer remote working via the zoom online-video platform. If you would like to explore having psychotherapy with me, please contact me by email: yvette.brook@btinternet.com and I will try to get back to you within 24 hours.
Training, qualifications & experience
For 4 years, I trained at Newman University in Birmingham. My qualifications include an MSc, and an Advanced Diploma, both in Psychotherapy. I am a registered member of the UKCP and the BACP. I have over 1000 clinical hours of experience working 1 to 1 with adults, and I have regular clinical supervision with a leading expert in my field.
I have experience and success working with people who are struggling because of their relationships, depression, anxiety (including health anxiety), anger, and other dominant emotions. I also have experience working with people who have been oppressed because of difference and diversity including people who recognise themselves as being autistic or having ADHD.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Additional information
I ask for payment in advance of the session by cash or by bank transfer.
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Further information
If you would like to explore the possibility of psychotherapy with me, please send me a brief email about why you are seeking therapy and when and where you would like to attend therapy. I will try to reply within 24 hours. If I can accommodate your preferred day/time, we can arrange a time for me to telephone you for an initial chat. During this telephone conversation, we can arrange an initial assessment session which will be carried out over the telephone or by video link. In the assessment session I will ask you questions about your personal history, your current issues and expectations of therapy, and you will have chance to ask questions and gain an impression of me. We will then decide if we want to continue working together. The fee for the assessment session is also £50.
