About Me

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My name is Roland, I am a BACP Senior Accredited counsellor. I have been counselling for over 15 years and currently working in private practice in Beckenham, South London.

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I have worked for over 5 years in as a lead counsellor in NHS GP practice settings in time-limited work from 6 - 16 sessions and in a long-term counselling service for clients with more complex needs.

In addition, I have worked in a specialist trauma service for over 4 years, working with adult survivors of childhood abuse, domestic abuse and sexual assaults experienced at any age. I have had extensive additional training and experience in working with many types of trauma.

I became a BACP* Accredited counsellor in 2013, a standard of proficiency within my professional body and a Senior Accredited counsellor in 2018, the highest standard of proficiency within my professional body.

I also currently do contracted EAP work for a large EAP provider, insurance work, and directly contacted work for some organisations.

(* British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)

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Professional Development

Counselling training

Diploma in Psychotherapeutic counselling

Diploma in Therapeutic counselling

Certificate in Counselling Studies

Certificate in Counselling Skills

Supervision training

CPCAB Level 6 Certificate in Counselling Supervision

Clinical experience

5+ years in a long term agency.

5+ years in GP surgery counselling

4+ years in specialist trauma service.

13+ years in private practice.

15+ years as a counsellor.

First Aid at Work Certificate (St. John's Ambulance- 3 day course)

Enhanced DBS certificate held.

CPD Training

Trauma CPD undertaken including working with:

PTSD

CPTSD

Dissociation, Dissociative Disorders incuding DID and trauma related conditions.

General CPD undertaken including working with:

Depression

Anxiety; General, Health, Social.

Bereavement

Low Self esteem and self-image

Relationship issues: Divorce, separation and affairs.

Therapy Approaches

1

Person-Centred

Reflecting on and discovering about who we really are and would wish to be. Reflecting on whether we have a good enough balance between how much we follow our own ideas and those of others?

2

Psychodynamic

Reflecting on our past experiences and how we may be influenced and unhelpfully affected by these in the present day. Discovering these impacts allows us the opportunity to act more independently of them.

3

Cognitive Behavoural (CBT)

Reflecting on how our unhelpful or negative automatic thought processes are activated in certain situations resulting in unhelpful emotions or behaviours and help us to replace these and so change our responses.

4

Integrative

I combine these approaches (1-3) allowing us to better understand and change how our past experience impacts our sense of self and relationship with others in the present, improving our self-worth and functioning.

Trauma work

My integrative approach is incorporated into a standard three stage trauma counselling model: stabilisation, processing and integration. This involves providing additional support through psycho-education and specific trauma strategies and grounding tools incorporated into conventional therapy.