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A bit about me
Hi, my name is Laura. I am a qualified counsellor and registered member of the BACP. I am also a JNC qualified youth worker and have extensive experience of supporting both young people and adults with all aspects of their mental health.
Before stepping into the world of consultancy, training and private practice I was Chief Executive of a Midlands based social enterprise that supported around 1000 children and their families annually by providing emotional and practical support.
I now spend my time developing emotional wellbeing programmes for the children and young people sector, delivering mental health training to professionals working in the social care arena, teaching accredited counselling courses and providing one to one counselling to adolescents and adults via my private practice.
Counselling
I offer an integrative counselling approach, blending techniques and tools from different modalities to tailor an individual approach for you.
Integrative counselling looks at the whole person, taking into account your mental, physical and emotional needs.
I aim to build a trusting and non-judgmental relationship that helps you develop self-awareness. When you understand the causes of your concerns or triggers for your behaviour, you can confidently set goals and develop new behaviours to improve your satisfaction with life.
My areas of particular interest and further training are;
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Young people and adults experiencing anxiety and/or panic disorder
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Young people and adults who need support with grief and/or loss
I have 2 counselling rooms; one in Redditch and one in Earlswood near Solihull and can offer online counselling via zoom.
Prices
50 minute Face to face counselling - £40 per session
Counselling for student counsellors - £30 per session
Training and CPD
Finding affordable, relevant and engaging CPD is often a challenge in the therapeutic space. At All Things Wellbeing we have a menu of short workshops on a range of topics such as:-
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How to practically and emotionally support a child through a bereavement. - This 3 hour workshop has been delivered to youth workers, school based staff, mentors, volunteers and parents/carers. It provides an overview of how children grieve, what to look out for, what to say and not to say and practical tools and techniques to use when supporting children through a bereavement.
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Self care - this 3 hour interactive presentation will leave you with some immediately actionable techniques that you can implement in order to enhance your wellbeing. It will provide you with an overview of what stress is, warning signs to look out for and what you can practically do to reduce your stress levels. This presentation can be condensed to 1 hour and is a great, light touch, addition to organisational wellbeing weeks or existing wellbeing and mental health inhouse programmes, it can also be tailored to specific work environments for inhouse delivery.
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Mental Health courses - As a licenced trainer for Mental Health First Aid England and in conjunction with my training associate 'About mental Health' we deliver the full suite of mental health first aid courses.
Coming soon - trauma informed practice training
