Fran Hornsby BACP Acc Dip Counselling MBACP

Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Addictions, Adolescence, Alcohol Problems, Anger, Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bipolar Disorder, Bisexual Issues, Bulimia Nervosa, Bullying, Business Leader's Issues, Cancer, Career Issues, Childhood Issues, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) (ME), Codependence, Confidence Issues, Couple Relationships, Debt, Depression, Dissociation, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Drug Addiction, Eating Disorders, Fear, Gay Issues, Grief, History of Mental Illness, Hysteria, Identity, Impotency, Infertility, Inhibitions, Internet Addiction, Internet Gambling Addiction, Internet Pornography Addiction, Lack of Meaning in Life, Lesbian Issues, Loneliness, Loss, Marriage (Marital relations), Men's Issues, Midlife Crisis, Mother and Baby Issues, Obsessions, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Parenting Issues, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Personality Difficulties, Personality Disorders, Phobias, Post Natal Depression (PND), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Pregnancy, Psychosis, Psychosomatic Symptoms, Rape, Redundancy, Same Sex Relationships, Self Development, Self Esteem, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behaviour, Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), Sleeping Problems, Smoking Addiction, Spirituality, Stress, Suicidal Thoughts, Transgender Issues, Trauma, Unresolved Issues, Weight Loss, Work Issues and Relationships

Client Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eclectic Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Person Centred Therapy, Transactional Analysis (TA), Transpersonal Therapy

Female

I have a successful Counselling Private Practice, running now for some nine years, seeing individuals with a myriad of issues that life can throw at us.

Person Centred Training enables me the luxury of feeling capable and comfortable with any and every issue of life.

If I have any tendency or leaning to any specific expertise it would be around dysfunctional eating patterns.

Having run groups of women with weight issues and therefore eating problems in the last seven years, I am able to facilitate better eating habits and therefore a less fluctuating weight management.

Although it is not necessary to take everything back to childhood, many a life issue has some anchorage from our past. Sexual abuse and anger around this has been a presenting issue for many clients that have been to my practice, and stress along with depression is around for almost all people that wish to attend counselling.

As a Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) I am bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Fundamentally my approach as a therapist is Person Centred, a school of therapy founded by a man called Carl Rogers, also known as Rogerian Therapy.

The core belief of this school of therapy is that the client is able to bring to the session anything of their life that is an issue for them. There is no specific direction taken and not necessarily continuity from one session to the next. The important issue is that the client is able to feel that she/he connects with the therapist by sharing whatever they deem important to them. So the sessions are completely unconditional!

There is no specific direction to take, or follow, as this would be `Directing` and `Enforcing` the client to look at something he or she is not ready, comfortable or even able to address, for reasons of overwhelming discomfort. Hence I believe this type of therapy is truly a very 'Unconditional' and 'Real' type of counselling!

Building on this foundation I also am able to use a therapy called Transactional Therapy which is more theory based and believes that we as people have many different `sides` to ourselves, and depending on what the situation is that we find ourselves in, we will react in a certain type of way. This can give cognitive clarity, understanding, to the client who often wants to at least understand what is going on for themselves even if they are unable to change it for the meantime.

The Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) that is very well known of in society today affords the client an insight into how they think and therefore what their behaviour is driven by, as this school believes it is our thoughts that give us our behaviour.

Although we are as people the product of all our experiences it would be easy to make the glib comment that we need to look into our past to understand a lot of our today. However there are levels at which clients want to work from so as a fundamental Person Centred Therapist it is not necessary to have to work from anywhere in particular. The ART of the sessions and the client is that the belief is in what is being presented is the best issue to analyse.

The client is not alone anymore.

In 1989 I trained as a Samaritan. I then took an `Introduction to Counselling` course with the Westminster Pastoral Foundation in Enfield. This lasted for 18 months and freed a passion within me to train fully as a counsellor and psychotherapist.

In 1995 I started a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Accredited Diploma in Person Centred Counselling at the Metanoia Institute in West London. This lasted some 5 years and included both attendance at the Institute as well as gaining voluntary counselling hours within a Counselling Agency.

After qualifying I proceeded to take a less formal training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) which I backed up by attending an exclusive workshop run by the icon Christine Padesky on `How to construct a New Self`.

My Continuing Professional Development strategy has followed a course of workshops on: Sexual Abuse, Childhood Abuse, Personality Splitting and specifically Rape Victims.

I am experienced in working on my own as a Psychotherapist. For all of my professional life, as an expert in this profession I have followed the codes and ethics of the professional body and received excellent Supervision which allows me my high quality of counselling.

At the same time I enjoy offering a very human approach to the process where a genuine degree of relationship is enjoyed by myself and the client that joins into the working agreement of attending sessions with me.