Hello and Welcome
I'm Sue, founder of Ameliorate Counselling.
My hope is that lived experience, a human touch, academic experience, and a broad background better enable me to sit with you when you feel in need of support.
Ameliorate Counselling
Focuses on individual needs, in a safe, secure, trusting and confidential space, to support you to manage your mental wellbeing, and finding alternative ways of coping.
Offering a range of therapeutic approaches, rather than a 'one size fits all'.
Sessions are tailored to the specific needs and aspirations of each client, fostering an empathetic, inclusive, and a non-judgmental environment where you can feel comfortable exploring your thoughts and feelings.
My journey into Counselling
The journey that led me into counselling started over 20 years ago, studying and working within the Psychology and Criminology sector, sadly after witnessing the struggles and decline in mental health support and the services offered, I decided to take a different pathway into Counselling.
Life and work experience, along with academic qualifications, has ensured that I have gained a diverse understanding for my fifty plus years of life.
I am a certified integrative counsellor, an adoption counsellor, and member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP, (BACP) and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society MNCPS, (NCPS).
I am qualified as a trauma therapist, and integrate the flash technique and dream completion technique.
I am also an advanced practitioner in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT-tapping therapy) and I practice as a mindful/compassion focused counsellor.
As an integrative counsellor, I apply a combination approach to therapy, because I do not believe one size fits all. I draw from lots of different theories, techniques, qualifications, and cpd to tailor therapy to your individual needs.
Some of my training and qualifications include - although not limited to.
· Cert - Adoption Support Counselling (Albany centre, and Barnardo's)
· Dip - Trauma Therapy (three phase trauma model).
· Cert - Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) advanced practitioner.
. Level 5 Cert - Working Therapeutically with Trauma
· Level 4 Dip - Integrative Therapeutic Counselling.
· Level 3 Dip - Counselling Skills.
· Level 2 Cert - Counselling Skills.
· BSc Hon - Psychology and Criminology.
· Forensic Psychology -Forensic Science.