Melvin Claridge - MA Psychotherapy and Counselling

Consulting Rooms (by appointment)
1 Snow Hill Court | City of London | London | EC1A 2EJ | UK

General Availability

Weekday Evenings

UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered Psychotherapist

I provide Face to Face Counselling and Psychotherapy in City of London, London

Fees: Individuals £60.00 - 50 minutes, Couples £80.00 - 50 minutes
Approximate length of therapy: ongoing
Languages: English

I offer Private Counselling and Psychotherapy Services for these Issues

Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Addictions, Alcohol Dependence, Anger, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bisexual Issues, Bullying, Business Leadership, Cancer, Career Issues, Childhood Issues, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) (ME), Codependency, Couple Relationships, Creativity, Cultural Issues, Debt, Depression, Disability, Dissociation, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Dyslexia, Exile Issues, Faith Issues, Fear, Gay Issues, Grief, HIV and AIDS, Hysteria, Identity, Immigration, Impotency, Inhibitions, Integration of Experience, Internet Addiction, Internet Gambling Addiction, Internet Pornography Addiction, Internet Sexual Compulsivity, Lack of Meaning in Life, Lesbian Issues, Loneliness, Loss, Low Self Confidence, Low Self Esteem, Marriage (Marital Relations), Men's Issues, Midlife Crisis, Mixed Race Issues, Obsessions, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Parenting, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Phobias, Physical Illness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Psychosexual Issues, Racial Abuse, Rape, Redundancy, Same Sex Relationships, Self Development, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behaviour, Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), Sleep Problems, Smoking Addiction, Social Phobia, Spirituality, Stage Fright, Stress, Transgender Issues, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved Issues, Workplace Issues and Work Relationship Problems

My Counselling and Psychotherapy Therapeutic Approaches

Existential Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), Integrative Therapy, Phenomenological Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)

Gender

Male

Clinical Experience in Counselling and Psychotherapy

I am an experienced psychotherapist working in private practice in central London. I am also employed as a trauma practitioner at a counselling and trauma service. I have experience of working as an honorary psychotherapist at two NHS clinics, a homeless shelter and an employee assistance programme.

What to Expect during Counselling and Psychotherapy

Therapy is about people connecting and forming relationships. In working existentially, I seek to listen to my clients and tune in for moments which value the inter-subjectivity inherent in the relationship between us. It is of great value to see that we are all creating worlds all the time and it can be of great importance to see what kind of world is being created in therapy. Our worlds meet in our accessing the encapsulation of emotional truth. Truth is a revelation, from one’s centre. This centre is unique to each individual and only from this centre can the revelation arise.

Therapy can be useful in gaining insight into what we are doing with ourselves. Are we truthfully creating a work which uncovers our being? Are we perpetuating or avoiding static patterns of behaviour and thought? We end up with what we create and we can never stop creating who we are until the end. I seek to help my clients explore what is happening and what role they can play in changing or accepting where and who they are.

In order to do this, the first session takes the form of a thorough assessment, where I find out what the current issues are, take a personal history and together, we set goals for the therapy. In cases where there is past trauma or anxiety, I will also explore ways of dealing with the trauma symptoms, including relaxation, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) resource building and stress reduction.

Clinical Qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy

UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered Psychotherapist since 2007
MA Psychotherapy and Counselling - School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology Regent's College (SPCPRC) London (UK) 2006

I am committed to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Counselling and Psychotherapy. I abide by the Code of Ethics of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the Code of Ethics of the Society for Existential Analysis (SEA) London.

Additional Information

"The outer was not at all in harmony with the inner but was rather its opposite, and only under this angle of refraction is [man] to be comprehended". Soren Kierkegaard

"An art is not a contest; it’s a continual growing. Whenever the artist thinks she’s mastered the craft, she’s stopped growing and so has stopped being an artist. True art is only to be found on the edge of what is known". James Bugental

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Consulting Rooms (by appointment)
1 Snow Hill Court | City of London | London | EC1A 2EJ | UK

My Consulting Address is in easy reach of: Farringdon, Temple, Barbican, Chancery Lane, Blackfriars, Fleet Street, Square Mile, Moorgate, South Bank, Cannon Street, City of London, Bank, Holborn, Finsbury, St. Pauls, Clerkenwell, London Bridge, Monument, Old Street, Bishopsgate

Nearest Train Stations: City Thameslink, London Cannon Street, Farringdon, Barbican, London Blackfriars, London Liverpool Street, Moorgate, Old Street, London Bridge, London Charing Cross

Nearest London Underground Tube Stations: Farringdon, St. Pauls, Barbican, Blackfriars, Chancery Lane

Wheelchair access: No