Surrey > Woking > GU : 24 > Mary-Anne Nickerson Name:   Mary-Anne Nickerson    Clear View Counselling Service I practise at:   Bracknell, Berkshire RG42 and at:   Woking, Surrey GU24   Website:   http://www.clear-view.me.uk     Phone:   07917611807      Prof. membership:   BACP  -  British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy   Counselling is a confidential 'Helping Relationship' that aims to allow you to identify your own resources. It is based on the principle of empowerment that encourages a view towards reaching your full potential in life. Counselling & psychotherapy aim not to give you advice but allows you to clarify and address your problems. You will be offered the opportunity to explore your fears, challenges, expectations, limitations and possibilities for change and personal growth with my professional guidance in a supportive and caring environment. Through the therapeutic relationship you can hope to develop greater levels of self-awareness allowing you to acknowledge your strengths so you can make confident personal choices and changes as you move forward on your personal journey. It can help a wide variety of issues such as improving your personal relationships, understanding your past and present with a view to enhancing your future. It may also help you to accept the difficult things in life that cannot be changed which sometimes can produce negative effects on us such as anger issues, depression, panic attacks and obessessive compulsive disorders. Through understanding and acceptance you can hope to manage these difficult feelings and behaviours and I will help you along the way looking at positive ways with which to deal with such problems. Qualifications & Training I have completed a course accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. I hold a Advanced Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy awarded by Guildford College and I am currently working towards my full accreditation and adhere to the BACP ethical framework for good practice. In addition to this I have a 2:2 (BA Honours) Degree in Communications & Cultural Studies (Humanities) awarded by the University of Western England. I have taken Continued Professional Development workshops in the following: Working with unaccompanied minors - The Refugee Council, London Basic Drug & Alcohol Awareness Training - Stella Project, London Basic Mental Health Training for Domestic Violence Workers - Greater London Domestic Violence Project Suicide & Self-Harm - Guildford College Creative Youth Counselling - Guildford College Child Protection Awareness Training - Surrey Community Action Welfare Rights & Benefits - Surrey Welfare Rights Notes, Confidentiality & the Law - Woking Counselling Service Domestic Abuse: Awareness & Practice Aquiring people skills to deal with Difficult People - Surrey Borders Partnership Experience In my professional capacity I have had direct experience of working with victims of domestic abuse for over a year and half and most recently I have been working both one to one and in groups with young people in schools aged 13-19 years who are from ethnic minorities. I had the valuable opportunity to work as a staff counsellor in a major hospital (St.Helier) in Carshalton, Surrey providing staff nurses and doctors with vital psychotherapy support. as well as this I have also worked for Woking Counselling Service providing shorter term therapy to a wide variety of people in the community. I also have excellent knowledge of relationship issues, isolation, separation & divorce, drugs, substance misuse and addiction and working creatively with young people. Fees Per session the cost is £40. I can agree lower costs for those who are in extremely difficult financial situations and to those who are currently studying to become a counsellor and on a recognised counselling course. The lower cost would be £35 per session. I can also see clients from London since there are excellent train links to both Woking & Guildford. Key words for this entry: Groups, Individual Counselling, Adults, Women, Young, Long-term, Short-term, Face-to-face, email, telephone, phone, Training/tutoring, Workshop, Concessionary rates, Low-cost sessions, Abortion, Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Bereavement, Bullying, Child Abuse, Conflict, Depression, Divorce, Separation, Domestic abuse, Identity, Infertility, Loss, Self-esteem, General counselling, OCD, Pain Management, Panic, Relationships, Self-confidence, Self-harm, Sexual Abuse, Stress, Substance Abuse, Workplace, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Integrative, Stress management, Transpersonal.