Anjalee Carey PG Dip Counselling MBACP

Abuse, Addictions, Alcohol Problems, Anger, Anxiety, Bereavement, Bulimia Nervosa, Bullying, Childhood Issues, Confidence Issues, Couple Relationships, Cultural Issues, Depression, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Drug Addiction, Eating Disorders, Faith Issues, Fear, Grief, Identity, Immigration, Integration of Experience, Lack of Meaning in Life, Loneliness, Loss, Marriage (Marital relations), Midlife Crisis, Mixed Race Issues, Mother and Baby Issues, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Personality Difficulties, Phobias, Post Natal Depression (PND), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Pregnancy, Racial Abuse, Rape, Redundancy, Self Development, Self Esteem, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Smoking Addiction, Spirituality, Stress, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved Issues, Weight Loss, Work Issues and Relationships

Humanistic Therapy, Person Centred Therapy

Female

I am a qualified counsellor based in the East Hertfordshire area, with counselling rooms available in Ware, Hertford and Hoddesdon.

I have had five years' experience counselling people for all sorts of emotional and psychological problems, ranging from bereavement to relationship break-down to a loss of direction in life, including those with issues around drug and alcohol abuse.

Although I mostly work with adults, I also have experience working with children of primary school age.

I work using the person-centred approach to counselling. The person-centred approach believes in the ability of the individual to find their own path through their situation or problem, to an answer that's right for them...that means I don't tell you what to do, but I do help you find your own answers - answers which are locked up inside of you.

I prefer to work this way because I believe it helps to dispel those unhelpful, negative and incorrect beliefs they might have about themselves. I believe the person-centred approach empowers the individual to discover and explore their own strengths, strengths that they can draw on for the rest of their lives strengths that are an inherent part of who they are, and then work towards using those new-found abilities for personal growth and achievement in their lives.

I feel it would be my privilege to be with you on your journey; a listening helper who acts as a sounding board, being neither judgemental nor giving advice, but helping you to explore your situation fully, so you can arrive at your own solution in your own way, and in your own time.

I gained my Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling at the University of Hertfordshire. My clinical experience was in a drug and alcohol agency, and since qualifying I have set up a private practice open to anyone with any emotional issue, and continue to do the addictions work as well.

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

I am also a qualified midwife, and so understand very well about the stresses of pregnancy, childbirth and the impact of a new addition to the family as a whole. I also understand very well about the loss of a pregnancy or of a baby.

Further to my counselling qualifications, I am also a trained hypnotherapist. I can either provide a hypnotherapy separate to counselling, or I can use hypnotherapy (when appropriate and after full discussion with my client) alongside counselling.