About JacquelineI am a retired GP who was always particularly aware of the psychological needs of patients as they attended surgery with the usual range of medical problems.
Prompted by the difficulties in helping, I trained as a Counsellor and was awarded the Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling by Manchester University in 2002. I then specialised in addiction treatment and in 2004 was awarded an MSc in Addiction Counselling by the University of Greenwich. |
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I am on the point of retiring from General Practice, but will continue to work as a therapist providing group and individual sessions to clients.
I also design and facilitate workshops and am a supervisior of other counsellors.
I specialise in short term counselling because of a strong belief
that every client has the power to change.
It makes little sense to me to suggest that a client requires long term therapy in order to change.
My views on short term counselling are born of my experience in general practice where my patients could rarely be offered more than six consecutive sessions. In most cases these six sessions were sufficient initially.
My patient would then take time to reflect on what they had experienced and what they had learned and then they would try out new behaviours and different ways of thinking about their problems.
Most patients reported feeling very much better and were encouraged to come and ask for some further ‘top up’ sessions at some later date.
I like to combine counselling with coaching because I see it as a very didactic (teaching) experience. The clients look at trying out new skills that have been learned and evaluates these to determine if they work better than their old ones.
Over my 35 years of helping addicted clients to recover, I have observed that the people who are the least isolated and the most relaxed and happy seem to be those who choose to engage with Alcoholics Anonymous or the other voluntary Fellowships
I always tell my alcoholic clients that if they have to choose between having sessions with me or attending AA meetings, I would always suggest that they attend AA because AA is the most successful group environment ever known for happy sober living.
However such a choice should not be necessary and I believe I can offer help that is complementary to the help available in AA.
I also design and facilitate workshops and am a supervisior of other counsellors.
I specialise in short term counselling because of a strong belief
that every client has the power to change.
It makes little sense to me to suggest that a client requires long term therapy in order to change.
My views on short term counselling are born of my experience in general practice where my patients could rarely be offered more than six consecutive sessions. In most cases these six sessions were sufficient initially.
My patient would then take time to reflect on what they had experienced and what they had learned and then they would try out new behaviours and different ways of thinking about their problems.
Most patients reported feeling very much better and were encouraged to come and ask for some further ‘top up’ sessions at some later date.
I like to combine counselling with coaching because I see it as a very didactic (teaching) experience. The clients look at trying out new skills that have been learned and evaluates these to determine if they work better than their old ones.
Over my 35 years of helping addicted clients to recover, I have observed that the people who are the least isolated and the most relaxed and happy seem to be those who choose to engage with Alcoholics Anonymous or the other voluntary Fellowships
I always tell my alcoholic clients that if they have to choose between having sessions with me or attending AA meetings, I would always suggest that they attend AA because AA is the most successful group environment ever known for happy sober living.
However such a choice should not be necessary and I believe I can offer help that is complementary to the help available in AA.
I am an Accredited Drug and Alcohol Counsellor.
FDAP membership number 649
I am a UKRCP Independent Counsellor/Psychotherapist.
BACP Membership number 572027
I am a provider for the Bupa Mental Health and Wellbeing Therapist Network.
I abide by the Codes of Practice of the above organisations.
I also have my own supervision with an experienced and qualified supervisor and I adhere to the requirement for ongoing professional development by regularly attending courses and other training events.
FDAP membership number 649
I am a UKRCP Independent Counsellor/Psychotherapist.
BACP Membership number 572027
I am a provider for the Bupa Mental Health and Wellbeing Therapist Network.
I abide by the Codes of Practice of the above organisations.
I also have my own supervision with an experienced and qualified supervisor and I adhere to the requirement for ongoing professional development by regularly attending courses and other training events.
