About Me

Welcome

My name is Roland, I am a BACP Senior Accredited counsellor. I have been counselling for over 15 years and working with trauma for over 13 years, now working in private practice in Beckenham, South London.

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I became a BACP* Accredited counsellor in 2013, a standard of proficiency within my professional body and a Senior Accredited counsellor in 2018, the highest standard of proficiency within my professional body.

I have worked previously for over 5 years in both a long-term counselling service for clients with more complex needs and as a lead counsellor in GP practice settings in time-limited work from 8 - 16 sessions.

In addition I have worked in a specialist trauma service for over 4 years working with adult survivors of childhood abuse, domestic abuse and sexual assault / violence experienced at any age. I have had extensive additional training and experience in working with many types of trauma.

(* British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)

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Professional Development

Counselling training

Diploma in Psychotherapeutic counselling

Diploma in Therapeutic counselling

Certificate in Counselling Studies

Certificate in Counselling Skills

Supervision training

CPCAB Level 6 Certificate in Counselling Supervision

Clinical experience

5+ years in a long term agency.

5+ years in GP surgery counselling

4+ years in specialist trauma service.

13+ years in private practice.

15+ years as a counsellor.

First Aid at Work Certificate (St. John's Ambulance- 3 day course)

Enhanced DBS certificate held.

CPD Training (selection - not exhaustive)

Working with Shame.

Working with Sexual abuse within the family.

Counselling Suicidal Clients.

Perinatal Mental Health.

Trauma Masterclass: Perspectives on working with trauma.

Trauma, Dissociation & Abuse.

The neuroscience of affect regulation in infants and adults.

Personal insights into Attachment theory.

Attachment & Complex trauma.

Somatic psychology & parts work.

Living and working with DID.

Trauma Masterclass: The Art of Trauma Treatment.

Science and Counselling for sleep problems.

Recognising and working with Autistic Spectrum Condition

Narcissists and their children- Made not born.

Managing Risk within Counselling.

Coercive Control: Physical and sexual violence in intimate relationships.

Anxiety: New challenges & interventions.

Practical interventions for anxiety & acute traumatic stress.

Living & Working with dissociation.

Memory.

Working with Trauma using NLP.

CBT Tools.

Trauma and the Body: Somatisation & Dissociation.

A Sensorimotor approach to working with trauma.

Body-oriented therapy for PTSD & Complex trauma.

Clinically applying Polyvagal Theory.

Eating Disorders.

Speaking through the Skin: Self Harm and its meanings.

Therapy Approaches

1

Person-Centred

Reflecting on and discovering about who we really are and would wish to be. Reflecting on whether we have a good enough balance between how much we follow our own ideas and those of others?

2

Psychodynamic

Reflecting on our past experiences and how we may be influenced and unhelpfully affected by these in the present day. Discovering these impacts allows us the opportunity to act more independently of them.

3

Cognitive Behavoural (CBT)

Reflecting on how our unhelpful or negative automatic thought processes are activated in certain situations resulting in unhelpful emotions or behaviours and help us to replace these and so change our responses.

4

Integrative

Combining these approaches allowing us to better understand and change how our past experience impacts our sense of self and relationship with others in the present, improving our self-worth and functioning.

Trauma work

My integrative approach is incorporated into a standard three stage trauma counselling model: stabilisation, processing and integration. This involves providing additional support through psycho-education and specific trauma strategies and grounding tools incorporated into conventional therapy.