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Fran Hornsby MBACP BACP Accredited Diploma

Person Centred Therapist

I provide Face to Face Counselling, Psychotherapy from £40.00

Fees: Individuals £40.00, Couples £60.00
Approximate length of one appointment: 60 minutes
Approximate length of therapy: open ended.
Languages: English
Nearest Train Station: Kings Langley.
Nearest Tube Station: Watford.
Nearest Bus Stop: Hunton Bridge Hill.
I am in easy reach of: 30 minutes train ride from Euston. 20 minute bus ride from Watford. 2 minutes from the M25 junction 20 and 19.
Wheelchair access: Yes

I provide Telephone Counselling for £31.00

Approximate length of one Telephone appointment: 60 minutes
Approximate length of Telephone counselling: open ended.
Languages: English

Problems I offer Counselling, Psychotherapy for

Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Addictions, Adolescence, Alcohol problems, Anger, Anorexia, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bi-polar disorder, Bisexual issues, Bulimia, Bullying, Cancer, Career issues, Childhood issues, Chronic Fatigue (CFS) (ME), Codependence, Confidence issues, 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), Midlife crisis, Mother and baby issues, Obsessions, OCD, Panic attacks, Personal growth, Personal relationships, Personality difficulties, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post natal depression, Post traumatic stress, Pregnancy, Psychosis, Psychosomatic symptoms, Rape, Redundancy, Same-sex relationships, Self-development, Self-esteem, Self-harm, Sexual abuse, Sexual behaviour, Sexuality, Sleep problems, Smoking addiction, Spirituality, STI (STD VD), Stress, Suicidal thoughts, Transgender issues, Trauma, Unresolved issues, Weight loss, Work issues and relationships

Clinical Experience in Counselling, Psychotherapy

I have run my own Counselling Private Practice for some eight years, seeing individuals who present themselves with a myriad of issues that life tends to 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 six 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.

How I Work

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

The core belief to this method of therapy is that the client is accepted for whatever they bring to the sessions, so there is no specific direction taken and not necessarily continuity from one session to the next. The important issue is that the client is believed to bring to the session whatever is important at the time he or she connects with the therapist.

There is no specific direction to take or follow as the belief is that this would be `Directing` and `Enforcing` the client to look at something he or she does not want to due to the discomfort and the manageability being too overwhelming. 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 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 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.

Clinical Training in Counselling, Psychotherapy

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/psychotherapist.

In 1995 I started a 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 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.

Additionally I have also gained training from the Eating Disorder Institute in Hammersmith.

Additional Information from Fran Hornsby

I am experienced in working on my own as a Psychotherapist. For all of my professional time 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.


Updated 21|12|2009