Carey West Dip Counselling MBACP (Snr Accred)

Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Addictions, Adolescence, Alcohol Problems, Anger, Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), 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, Creativity, Cultural Issues, Debt, Depression, Diabetes, Disability, Dissociation, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Drug Addiction, Dyslexia, Eating Disorders, Exile Issues, Faith Issues, Fear, Gambling, Gay Issues, Grief, Hysteria, Identity, Immigration, Impotency, Infertility, Inhibitions, Integration of Experience, Internet Addiction, Internet Gambling Addiction, Internet Sexual Compulsivity, Lack of Meaning in Life, Lesbian Issues, Loneliness, Loss, Marriage (Marital relations), Men's Issues, Midlife Crisis, Mixed Race Issues, Mother and Baby Issues, Obsessions, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Personality Difficulties, Phobias, Physical Illness, Post Natal Depression (PND), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Pregnancy, Psychosexual Issues, Psychosomatic Symptoms, Racial Abuse, Rape, Redundancy, Same Sex Relationships, Self Development, Self Esteem, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behaviour, Sexuality, Sleeping Problems, Smoking Addiction, Social Phobia, Spirituality, Stage Fright, Stress, Transgender Issues, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved Issues, Work Issues and Relationships

Brief Therapy, Client Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Therapy, Integrative Therapy, Person Centred Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy

Female

I qualified as a counsellor in 1993 after completing a three year diploma in solution focused counselling (which has a person centred base).

I was initially with a voluntary agency in Harlow, Essex, which dealt with a wide range of issues. Since then I have worked in a GP practice (Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire), an alcohol agency (Ware, Hertfordshire), and as a clinical supervisor to crisis pregnancy centres (which included training and supervising counsellors throughout the UK). I have also delivered training in different locations in the UK and Africa.

Currently I have a private counselling practice in Crawley, West Sussex, and offer face to face or telephone counselling, clinical supervision and training. I also work on a 24 hour telephone counselling line, where clients can call with any type of issue at any severity – to be dealt with as appropriate.

What Does Counselling Aim To Do?
Counselling aims to help you explore your circumstances, understand your feelings, thoughts and behaviour, and so be better able to decide what you want to do.

Counselling aims to support you as you begin to come to terms with the unchangeable, make decisions about things you can (and want to) change, and begin to put them into practice.

Perhaps you are feeling flat? Tearful? Anxious?
Perhaps you don’t know why?
Perhaps you are only too aware of the reason!
Some of the aims of counselling are to help you:
make a choice; make a change; or sort out confusion.

Working Together
Whatever your particular situation you will receive individual consideration and respect, space and time to think through what you find important, and unconditional positive regard as we work together on the things you may want to bring.

The First Session
This session contains a time of information giving. I can give you information about how I work, what confidentiality is etc. I can attempt to answer any questions you may have about what counselling is - how it may help you, how long it may take etc. You can give me an idea of what is going on for you, and what has brought you to counselling at this time. And so we begin...

Diploma in Clinical and Pastoral Counselling (Institute of Counselling)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) via the Telephone
The Art of Focusing (The Felt Sense – Body Connections)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Depression
Addiction to Alcohol
Trauma and Recovery
Critical Incident Support (Individuals and Groups)
Motivational Interviewing
Couples Counselling
Counselling Needs of Children and Young People
Child Abuse: Making Systems Safer
Systemics Couples Counselling
Counselling Children
City & Guilds 7307 (Stage 1) Further and Adult Ed. Teachers
Interpersonal Skills
Counsellor Supervision (Levels 1 and 2)
Therapists Self Care (Cambridge Body Psychology Centre)
Countertransference (10 lectures)
Clinical Assessment (1 and 2)
Computer Records
Training for the Trainers

If you would like to discuss anything before meeting, please contact me via the 'Contact Me' link above. Please include your telephone number so I can call you back. I will be happy to discuss any questions or concerns you may have.