Berkshire > Finchampstead > RG : 40 > Debbie Livingston Name:   Debbie Livingston    Therapy For Life I practise at:   Finchampstead, Berkshire RG40   Website:   http://www.therapyforlife.org.uk     Phone:   07740 58 78 22      Professional    membership:   BACP  -  British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy   UKCP  -  United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy   I offer weekly face to face sessions in a private room over looking the garden and oak trees of my home. It is a room specifically for therapy and entered through the garden. Here, you will be able, in confidence and safety, to embark on the issues you want and, together, work at pace to suit you. I have been working with clients since 1999 and completed my MA and registration with UKCP in 2004. In 2010 I sucessfully passed the 5 year renewal practice audit and was re-accredited with UKCP. I am passionate about clients being able to experience their lives as satisfying and fulfilling. To support this my interest extends to my ethical and professional practice. I undertake supervision in line with the UKCP professional standards my details are registered with both the UKCP and the BACP. I am the Chair of the Reading Therapies Group, a not-for-profit voluntary organisation set up originally in Winterbourne House and now runs from the University of Reading Whiteknights Campus. Our committment is to provide high quality, relevant and low cost Continuous Professional Development to Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Reading and surrounding districts. We offer about 12 hours of CPD for £40 annual membership to ensure that good CPD and peer support is avaiable to local therapists. Qualifications & Training MA Transpersonal Counselling & Psychotherapy PG Dip Transpersonal Counselling & Psychotherapy Adv Dip Practitioner Skills for Eating Disorders and Obesity Cert Group Skills Cert OCTC Introduction to CBT Skills Cert Parenting Practitioner Skills Experience I work with individuals and groups both adults and young people on a variety of concerns and issues. My experience includes: Eating disorders, weight control, failed dieting, compulsive eating. General counselling issues including anxiety, depression and stress. Challenges faced with career changes, direction, disappointment and difficulties experienced in work place settings. Pregnancy: mental, emotional and sprititual issues raised by pre and post natal issues. Parenting concerns. Relationships: siblings, parents, children, colleagues and peers (assertion skills and managing others). Self worth and self esteem work. Divorce and separation issues (excluding mediation). Fees £45 to £60 concessions available dependent on income. Please ask for details. For an initial sessions please allow 60 minutes. All ongoing sessions last 50 minutes. Sessions are weekly and offered on time-limited or open ended basis. 48 hour cancellation period. Missed sessions to be paid for. I regret there is limited disabled access. Please call for information. Key words for this entry: Individual Counselling, Adults, Elderly, Men, Women, Young, Long-term, Short-term, Time-limited, Mentoring, Concessionary rates, Low-cost sessions, Abortion, Anxiety, Attachment, Bereavement, Body image, Commitment, Conflict, Crisis Support, Depression, Divorce, Separation, Eating, Identity, Loss, Self-esteem, Mental Health, Miscarriage, Parenting, Postnatal Depression, Relationships, Self-confidence, Spirituality, Stress, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Counselling, Existential, Psychotherapy, Stress management, Transpersonal, Nutritional Therapy.