Counseling for Trainee/Student Counselors
Counselling For Trainee Counsellors & Psychotherapists in UK
Are you currently training or working in the helping professions and seeking personal therapy in the UK?
If you are currently engaged in the helping professions, where you provide psychological talking therapy to patients or clients, and wish to participate in personal therapy for personal growth and/or to enhance your services, please keep reading. If you are on a training course that demands completion of personal therapy, this experiential learning journey for self-awareness is incredibly valuable. If you are experiencing difficulties with caregiver responsibilities or your mental health, we are here to support you.
Counselling is often recommended or a requirement for students on counselling or psychotherapy courses, because of the emotionally strenuous nature of the course. The support of a qualified therapist can be invaluable in helping us to navigate any personal difficulties student counsellors and trainee psychotherapists may face, imposter syndrome that can arise with beginning client work and figuring out who we are as a practitioner.
Counselling for Trainee/Student Counsellors in UK
I provide a welcoming and supportive confidential setting beyond your academic requirements and oversight. My aim is to assist you in navigating the obstacles encountered during your counseling studies, addressing lingering concerns from your past, embracing your personal strengths and vulnerabilities, and embracing your genuine self, whether within or outside of our therapy space. I offer online individual counseling for aspiring counselor students in the UK.
What Are The Advantages Of Having Your Own Personal Therapy
- Enhancing your self-awareness and understanding of your own behaviors can lead to improved relationships with clients, in your personal life, and among colleagues at work.
- Studies dating back to the mid-1990s indicate that many psychologists engage in therapy and find it beneficial.
- A skilled therapist recognizes their own blind spots, which are essentially emotional triggers, in order to identify specific Reciprocal Roles on the Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) map, allowing for a better understanding of unproductive patterns in interactions with others.
Choosing to work as a counsellor/ psychotherapist or training to become a counsellor/psychotherapist is a huge commitment. Part of the commitment is to continuous personal development and clinical supervision. Most training bodies, colleges or universities in the UK stipulate that personal therapy for counselling students is mandatory. I have provided personal therapy for counselling students in Somerset UK since I qualified.
Having your own therapy can be beneficial for you as a counsellor or therapist.
- In any phase of your counseling therapist path, should you aim to enhance the service you provide to your clients, this can be accomplished by gaining a deeper insight into your own self.
- Consider your typical interactions with others and the aspects of your past that manifest in your daily personal and professional experiences.
- Enhancing your self-awareness regarding your relationships and past emotional triggers can benefit individuals across various domains, such as those involved in client interaction and customer service roles.
Personal therapy for Counselling students in UK is an essential part of the development of any future counsellor and is a key element to enabling growth and self-awareness to take place. Usually, trainees and counselling students are required to get 40 hours of personal counselling or psychotherapy with a professional BACP registered
I believe in the benefits that Trainee/Student Counsellors gain from their personal therapy. Having recently undertaken Counselling training myself, I totally understand the complexities involved and the impact a counselling course can have on a person.
Does Counselling And Therapy Course expect you to have your Own Therapy?
In the UK, all counseling and psychological therapy training programs suggest that students undergo their own personal therapy sessions to benefit both personally and professionally.
Support I offer trainee counsellors:
- Providing emotional backing during especially challenging parts of your counselling course, like practicing listening or counseling skills under observation.
- Offering a secure, unbiased environment to delve into the unique challenges of being a student psychotherapist and trainee counselor.
- Conversations about moving from a trainee counselor to a qualified one.
- Creating a comforting environment during a rigorous counselling course.
- Spaces dedicated to self-reflection.
- Assisting in exploring unresolved issues that could create blind spots in your practice.
- Elevating your self-awareness and enhancing your confidence in your skills and personal approach.
- Engaging in experiential learning and providing a setting to observe concepts like transference in action.
- Guiding your growth towards becoming the practitioner you aspire to be.
Find below some useful links and information on the website
– What to expect from counselling: a comprehensive guide
– Expert chat: Insights on what to anticipate in counselling
– Your first counselling session.
- Enables growth and self-awareness to take place
- Gives you the opportunity to find any blind spots you may have
- Offers you the opportunity to explore any unresolved issues from your past
- Enables you to recognise and separate your own personal issues from those of your clients when they manifest themselves in the therapeutic relationship
- Ensures that you will be able to stay more present and focused with your clients
- Gives you an opportunity to explore how your theoretical training relates to/impacts you
- Offers you a supportive space during your course
- Enables growth and self-awareness to take place
- Gives you the opportunity to find any blind spots you may have
- Offers you the opportunity to explore any unresolved issues from your past
- Enables you to recognise and separate your own personal issues from those of your clients when they manifest themselves in the therapeutic relationship
- Ensures that you will be able to stay more present and focused with your clients
- Gives you an opportunity to explore how your theoretical training relates to/impacts you
- Offers you a supportive space during your course
- I am a Registered Member MBACP
- I have worked with Trainee/Student Counsellors before
- I provide a Confidential, Safe and Supportive Environment
I am an integrative Therapist but Person-centred work forms the core mode of how I work. I focus on the here and now with a firm belief that everyone is an individual in their own right with a capacity to change, grow and heal given the right circumstances and environment. Whilst this is the focus of my work I will be interested and curious as to your background and family of origin as your present is informed by your past, especially by your attachment style and by any unresolved issues. Our work would also look at any unconscious processes that may be taking place either within our counselling relationship which can sometimes mirror life in the outside world.
Our therapeutic relationship is the heart of the therapy and my aim is to offer you a safe and supportive space for this relationship to grow and to allow you the environment to talk about any issues affecting you as well as enabling you to reflect on your own processes and explore anything that may emerge for you as a result of your training.
- Confidentiality is paramount and it is good practice to not use names if you are referring to other students on your course.
- I will not be able to read through nor assist you in the writing of your assignments.
- I understand and appreciate that for some trainee/student counsellors it is their preference to stay with one therapist throughout the course, whilst for others, they would prefer to change and experience another counsellor or a different type of modality. I am flexible and can accommodate both options.
- I appreciate that some trainee/students are happy to undertake additional sessions beyond the required number that need to be signed off and I can accommodate this.
- I take very seriously the importance of personal therapy for students wishing to become counsellors. It doesn’t help to come to counselling as an exercise in ticking boxes in order to meet the course requirements. It is best to fully engage with processes.
I have daytime and evening appointments available in Taunton. Book an appointment now.