LOCATION: Home-based consulting room (Ditchling Road) and Online
AVAILABILITY: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. Morning, afternoon and evening.
PRICE: £50 per session
SPECIALISMS:
Children and Young People
Anxiety
Relationship Issues
Neurodivergent identities
Personal identity
Gender identity and sexuality
Stress
Issues arising at School or College
Life transitions
Changing family structures
Depression
Low self esteem
Living with chronic ill health or disability

Training

Beccy holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Humanistic Psychotherapeutic counselling and a Post Qualifying Diploma in counselling children and young people. She is a registered member of the BACP and adheres to their Ethical Framework. She has an enhanced DBS certificate and has regular professional supervision and undertakes regular continuing professional development.

Beccy also works for an agency specialising in counselling for addiction or those affected by addiction. Before becoming a therapeutic counsellor she worked in a variety of public sector roles, including many years as a qualified teacher. She is a parent to two adult sons and has experienced an eventful life to date, living alongside and through many of the challenges that life can send our way.

Approach

Beccy works with warmth, compassion and equity to create space for people to explore and release a full range of feelings and experiences. Her role is to be alongside people, creating a supported therapeutic space for reflection and emotional release. She works collaboratively to explore patterns of being and thinking, that clients feel a need to adapt. Beccy is able to support people seeking supported challenge and she can encourage compassionate exploration of alternative views on situations and offer support as change is experimented with.

She helps people to recognise their own power and find ways to live life as well as possible, finding ways to manage stressors and difficulties which are beyond peoples power to control. Beccy supports clients in taking the risk of sharing and she helps people to take care of themselves. She provides a place where people will have space and time to focus on themselves.

Children and Young People

Beccy is a qualified and established child and young person's counsellor who takes a pro-active approach, fitting to the needs and priorities of each client. She uses a blend of focused listening, emotionally focused play, creative therapy and CBT. This offers the opportunity to access, explore and release feelings, examine how to feel safer with big feelings and respond to what is revealed. Play and creativity are applied in keeping with what a child feels is right for them as they are primary ways of communicating and a gateway to learning more about feelings and how to manage them.

Anxiety

Many children and young people are expressing challenges with feeling anxious. Beccy combines an approach of helping people to explore what their anxiety is for them and in doing so raising personal awareness. This in turn opens choice. Beccy works to help people openly express their fears and meets them with compassion focused techniques which help people to recognise the valuable components of the anxiety and relax it where it is not needed. Being more compassionate to ourselves is one of the harder challenges and Beccy's approach is to help with the understanding of this reality.

Recognising and valuing why the anxiety exists both as an individual response and as a response to the relationships we exist within, can give us the support we need to make adjustments to our choices and over time, feel safer in relaxing some of our vigilance.

Relationship Issues

As we grow and life moves along, there is a need for our relationships and how we are in relationship to adapt and change. Having someone to listen, empathise and explore what is happening in more depth and how we are managing that, can be a very useful tool. Beccy works to create this space. She aims to open choice and support people through the choices they want to make, creating time to reflect on changes that are needed to make those choices work in existing and new relationships.

Children and young people may experience bullying, abuse and trauma from relationships in their lives. This may need exploring to gain as much safety as possible in the present. Beccy applies the three stage trauma model for clients who would like to work on trauma recovery. This can also be applied to physical traumas such as ill health or injury.