Person Centred Therapy
My style of working is integrative. My initial focus is to listen to you very carefully. However what I offer is a relationship. Within this relationship you are free to use all the resources I have to offer, including my training, experience and who I am as a human being.
The counselling offered enables the client to feel supported in knowing what is best for themselves and deciding and accepting responsibility for what changes might be made. Over all my counselling function is to facilitate and support. The counselling I offer is provided according to need, i.e. pace and frequency suitable to the client. My counselling, supervision and group work is frequently supervised independently and externally to the GP practice. Currently I access peer and individual supervision.
Practice
I work within a GP practice providing counselling support to individuals (adults) couples and young people. I also work independently offering counselling, supervision and mentoring. I have supported Huddersfield University and Halifax college over the last six years in supervision/mentoring of their students; this includes giving feedback around students personal and professional development.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science with Honours in Counselling Studies
- Honours National Diploma in counselling
- Honours National Certificate in counselling
- Connexions Diploma — working for change with young people
I am in supervision according to the requirements recommended by BACP and am committed to personal therapy. I offer a service which upholds your confidentiality in a safe environment. I am a member of BACP and am an accredited Practitioner.
I am committed to working within the spirit of equal opportunities and will not discriminate on any grounds.
To date some of the issues I have worked with include: racism, transition/life change, crisis intervention, anxiety/panic attacks, stress, anger management, relationship difficulties, abandonment, loss/grief, depression, bullying, conflict resolution, confidence, effective communication personal and professional development, issues around self-esteem and self worth, traumatic experiences past and present, abuse (mental, physical and sexual), eating disorders and obsessional behaviour.
For information unfortunately one of the current venues has some steps to negotiate for people with walking difficulties.
Further information
My late colleague Kate and I began ‘Creative Space’ in 2005, offering therapy workshops for: abuse survivors,(initial group met once a month from Nov 2005-Sep 2008) couples and individuals and training workshops for students in counsellor training and also professional carers.
The therapy, which is offered, can be from different models. Primarily it is Person Centred. Other types of therapy are used like CBT, Solution focused, TA, Gestalt, The Creative Therapies used are art, drama and psychodrama. All these therapies co-operate with unconscious material enabling a person to find their own solutions.
More recently I have agreed to provide group supervision and training workshops for staff at KRASACC (specialising in offering support for victims of rape and domestic violence). Since September 2009 I have taken up a post as Affiliate counsellor for Northorpe Hall Trust supporting young people in accessing counselling.
As an affiliate practitioner for Oakdale I support this service in offering qualitive counselling support to their client group, PCT within Calderdale and Employee Assisted Programmes (EAP) work through telephone and face to face counselling.
In December 2009 to June 2010 I agreed to support Oakdale Services as Case Manager supporting the appropriate allocation of cases to practitioners throughout the country in support of the Employee Assisted Programmes and Authority Support Programmes contracts. Having to manage case loads suppport practitioners in supervision of their cases and manage a 24 helpline which provides counselling support and advice for users country wide.
Client Comments
“The counselling sessions have proved invaluable to me. I now feel more confident about the future and ready to face whatever it may hold.”
“Jill was a very caring and understanding person. Nothing at all was too much trouble and she has certainly helped turn my life around.”
“Initially I was sceptical about what could be achieved by counselling and I have been pleasantly surprised by how much I have achieved in my sessions.”
Mentor & Supervisee Comments
“Jill understood early on where I was in terms of my world view & my experiences and was able to go along the path with me.”
“I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Jill both from a personal & professional viewpoint. I have learned much about my clients, theoretical ways of working and about myself.”