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Hello , I am Lorna
I am passionate about counselling and enabling people to understand why they feel like they do. I aim to enable clients to blossom in the here and now and to empower clients with the skills to move forward to a more hopeful, happier future . I am an experienced , qualified and empathic counsellor. I am looking forward to listening to you in a therapeutic way and working with you as your counsellor. I feel that it is important that you will feel heard by me so that you can feel able to tell me about what is bothering you and I can then work with you therapeutically on this and so enable you to move towards feeling in a better place. As part of my core training and afterwards I have had counselling myself and so I am very well aware of how it feels to be a client in therapy. Our thoughts and our life experiences can cause us to feel anxious , depressed , sad or lonely for example if they sit with us unheard , unspoken or unnoticed . That is why it is healthy to enter i
I am trained as a person centred counsellor but I am also trained to use other models of counselling integratively. I also use CBT where it could be helpful for clients. I find it useful in my work as a qualified counsellor that I have a nursing background and a degree in Health and Social Care, I specialised in counselling bereaved clients as well and have done lots of other training courses as required by the membership of my ethical bodies, BACP and NCS. This all helps me to understand the many issues that clients may be experiencing and bring to therapy . This may include , for example , health issues, feeling stressed , feelings of anger, anxiety, depression, divorce, and bereavement . Unexpressed thoughts and feelings can leave us feeling anxious and depressed for example so my work as a counsellor is to listen and work with you the client enabling you to do this.
I am a person centred counsellor which means that I listen empathically to what you talk to me about and use counselling skills in a therapeutic way to enable you to work towards healing yourself and being in a better emotional place .
I work by using or integrating other models of counselling as well into my work. For example some CBT therapy or transactional analysis as this is often effective in enabling a client to work with particular issues or a client may prefer to work in this way.
I am BACP accredited and I am an accredited professional with NCS .
Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Counselling Skills and Theory 2021
Level 5 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Diploma 2021
OCST 4 online Counselling Audio and Webcam 2021
ABC Level 4 Diploma in the Theory and Practice of Counselling 2010
I work with adults aged 19years and over
I specialise in bereavement , anxiety , depression , anger, health issues
There is no charge for the initial 15 minute assessment phone call , I Charge £60 for the Zoom or telephone assessment session and £60 for counselling sessions of one hour.
I work in the English Language