associate counsellors
Talk in the Bay has brought together a team of associate counsellors who have extensive experience and knowledge. Together we believe we can offer a unique and quality service providing tailor made therapy to everyone.
Angharad Davies
Angharad is a bi-lingual counsellor, offering therapy sessions in both English and Welsh.
She has extensive experience in working with clients who have suffered sexual abuse, as well as emotional and psychological trauma. Her theoretical approach is an integrative one with an emphasis on the Person Centred model. Angharad’s style of working is suited to a variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, stress and relationship difficulties.
Angharad has gained an AQA Advanced Diploma in Counselling and is currently working towards higher level qualifications. She is also undertaking a NVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care.
Angharad is passionate about increasing her knowledge base and has therefore undertaken supplementary training in child protection, substance misuse, mental health awareness, family mediation, anger management and domestic violence.
FEES :
Counselling £35
Students/unwaged £30
AVAILABILITY :
Friday : 9am – 6pm, Saturday: 9am – 1pm,
Other appointments available on request
Email: talk-in-the-bay@hotmail.co.uk
Kerry Barnes
Kerry is an experienced counsellor, a Senior Accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and a United Kingdom Registered Independent Practitioner. She has worked in the NHS in adult and adolescent mental health and disability services; and in workplace counselling, higher education and primary school.
Kerry gained her Diploma in Counselling in 1992 and a Masters in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in 2003. Her thesis addressed factors that influence higher education counsellors choice of continuing professional development. She has undertaken ongoing continuing professional development in a range of issues, including Constellations work, which looks at how family systems impact on our sense of self and purpose.
Kerry offers integrative counselling, drawing from CBT, psychodynamic and solutions focussed models for short, medium and long term work. This flexible approach provides a framework for clients to reflect on their life in the present, looking at the origin of distress, how difficulties have arisen and what coping strategies are currently helpful or unhelpful.
Kerry has worked with a wide range of issues including anxiety, bereavement, depression, relationship difficulties, childhood abuse, eating difficulties and health and disability issues.
She has extensive experience in working with people coping with work or study problems, including trainee counsellors.
A particular interest is the balance of power in human relationships, how this can be abused through prejudice such as race, religion, status and class, and how individuals can find a powerful sense of autonomy and self respect through self development.
FEES :
Counselling £45
Students/unwaged - negotiable
AVAILABILITY :
Thursday : 9:00am – 6pm,
Other appointments available on request
Email: talk-in-the-bay@hotmail.co.uk
Alyson Harley
Al has been counselling since 2007 and specialises in working with 11 to 25 year olds. Her theoretical approach is Humanistic and more specifically Person Centred. In addition, she has extended this to include Therapeutic play and Art Therapy.
Among the most common issues encountered in her experience of working with a young client group, in both a school setting and specialist agencies, have been family breakdown; self harm; eating disorders; grief and loss and bullying.
Al has gained an AQA Advanced Diploma in Counselling and is currently looking at continuing her academic development in the fields of Existentialism and Art Therapy
Al has undertaken supplementary training in Child Protection; Health & Safety; Substance Misuse; Anger Management; Bullying; Rape and Sexual Abuse (including Trauma and Flashbacks); Self Harm; Suicide and Mental Health First Aid.
Al also has experience of crisis work with traumatic loss in a school environment.
FEES :
Counselling £35
Students/unwaged - negotiable
AVAILABILITY :
Saturday : 8:00am – 8pm,
Other appointments available on request
Email: talk-in-the-bay@hotmail.co.uk
Jelka Whittaker
After more than 20 years of working with people in various health settings, Jelka went back to university as a mature student and after gaining a psychology based BSc (Hons) degree continued until she attained a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (CBT).
Experienced and fully qualified, she nevertheless continues to attend courses, exploring new approaches and draws from a broad range of therapies in order to respond to each person in a style that feels most comfortable to them, using techniques that are likely to be most effective in tackling specific problems. She now describes herself as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with a strongly humanistic attitude.
She works with a wide range of issues but her main areas of interest, experience and expertise include addictive behaviours, eating disorders, complicated/difficult relationships, feelings arising from abusive childhoods and low levels of confidence and self esteem. Jelka has worked in an agency specialising in working with individuals who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and/or rape and the NHS.
Jelka is a member of the British Associate of Counselling and Psychotherapy and is bound by their code of practice.
Her mission in counselling is to enable as many people as she can to come as close to enjoying as many moments of their life as their circumstances will allow.
FEES :
CBT/Counselling ?35
Students/unwaged - negotiable
AVAILABILITY :
Monday 10am – 8pm