Carol Belsey
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About me
Please note I am on leave from Friday 12th to Monday 22nd April 2024. Please email me via this website and I will contact you as soon as I can upon my return. I look forward to hearing from you.
Hello and thank you for considering me or one of my colleagues at East Surrey Counselling Group as counsellor for either yourself or your child.
I am a BACP Senior Accredited counsellor, qualified since 2006, to degree level, to work with INDIVIDUALS FROM THE AGE OF 5 and am the founding counsellor of East Surrey Counselling Group, a group of counsellors working across 2 counselling rooms in Godstone, Surrey.
Our consulting rooms are in the lovely village of Godstone, Surrey and are close to Oxted, Redhill, Reigate, Caterham and Woldingham and two minutes by car from the M25 Junction 6. We work with clients of all ages and cover every day of the week, recently including Sunday morning sessions.
I have experience of working for different agencies and as a school counsellor, which have all added to my knowledge and understanding and I work to suit each individual person and can offer you empathy, understanding and a weekly commitment to work hard with you or your child to help you or them overcome difficulties and stumbling blocks towards a better future. I also run a training organisation for fellow counsellors so my CPD commitment is always up to date.
Please contact me with any queries or questions or to arrange an initial appointment in which we will explore your difficulties and see if we feel we can work well together. This initial appointment costs £60 but I allow 1.5 hrs instead of the normal 60 minute weekly session time so that we have plenty of time for exploration and getting to know each other a little. I work with clients Tuesday to Friday.
My weekly session fees is £60, with some concessions available. Concessions are agreed between us depending on your circumstances when we meet for our first session.
As the lead counsellor for East Surrey Counselling Group if, when you contact me, my practice is full, I can refer you to my colleagues Lorraine Sheppard, Sally Ward and Gosia Pawlowska (who work with those aged 11 and over and adults) or Janine Webb, Rachael King, Jeanne Hyslop and Liz Seale (who all work with children from aged 5, adolescents and adults), Yvonne Robinson (who works with young people from age 13 and adults) or Natasha Huggins-Woolcock (who works with those over 18) who are also part of East Surrey Counselling Group. Yvonne specialises in working with those who have experienced sexual violence and Gosia can offer counselling in both English and Polish. More information about all of us can be found on our website www.eastsurreycounsellinggroup.co.uk.
I look forward to hearing from you when you are ready.
Warmest wishes until then
Carol
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (2006)
Diploma in working with Adolescents (2006)
Certificate in PTSD and Trauma
Various play therapy short courses/workshops
BA (Hons) degree in Psychodynamic counselling (2010)
Diploma in Counselling Supervision (2017)
OCN London Level 6 Course in Counselling Supervision (2019)
BACP Accreditation 2010
BACP Senior Accreditation 2019
Previous posts include
Adolescent counsellor for Open Door Youth Counselling Service, Carshalton
School counsellor, both primary and senior
Child counsellor working for Surrey Family and Mediation Service
I run CB Counsellor Training offering very reasonably priced CPD workshops to local counsellors.
Member organisations
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Child and Adolescent counselling, Adult and Older Adult Counselling
Supervision
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60 for the initial session
£60 per session, with some concessions available, offered on a sliding scale, based on individual circumstances, if availability allows.
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My colleagues at East Surrey Counselling Group are able to offer evening, Saturday and Sunday sessions so contact me if you would like to be referred to one of them instead of myself.
Further information
At this time I can offer hospital staff a reduced fee of £40 per session
