South East London Counselling Service

Counselling and therapy in South East London

South East London Therapy (Counselling in Greenwich)

Hello and welcome, My name is Shanta. I am a British Association Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited counsellor with number of years experience of working as an Asian counselling coordinator/supervisor at MIND. I have been working in private practice since April 2000. I work with EAP providers referrals from doctors, psychiatrists, mental health professionals, social workers and local police.
My main aim is to understand with openness, honestly, integrity and genuine care and concern. I aim to locate the difficulties and allow people to understand their innate problems and deal with it, I help people to develop personal strength to cope with life.
I maintain a respectful relationship with people who are experiencing difficulties which are not always understood or heard. I can understand struggle which remains unnoticed, unheard or completely rejected.
I aim to understand the struggle, pain, anxiety, depression, anguish, anger which remains unprocessed and which leads to confusion, distress, anger or withdrawal from the outside world.
My main aim is to develop a relationship without judgment, understanding, empathy and whole hearted support.
I value human dignity more than anything.
I am trained up to postgraduate diploma level in psychodynamic counselling, and existential psychotherapy. I have training in CBT. I work with various difficulties such as abuse, anxiety, assertion, bereavement, behavioural difficulties, bullying, bipolar personality disorder, cultural conflict, depression, eating problem (including anorexia and bulimia), fear of failure, gambling, hostile feelings, loneliness and isolation, phobia, redundancy, relationship difficulties, self harm, separation and loss, stress management and withdrawal feelings. I use integrative model of work which means I use various models of counselling. I deal with the "Here and Now" situations or what ever the clients wants to bring in to the session.
My main interest is existential psychotherapy where I locate a personal dilemma, choice, and inability to act upon once own choices. I have specialist training in eating disorder, cross culture counselling, condition management and stress management.
I work at MIND where I see long term clients with more acute mental health problem. I see people who are diagnosed as schizophrenia, bipolar personality disorder, acute anxiety, suicidal feelings and various other mental helth problems.
I provide "personal therapy" to trainee counsellors. I provide group supervision to counsellors. My training in supervision is from Regents College London.
I am a counsellor/therapist offering counselling in Canary Warf, South kensington, Greenwich and West Dulwich.
I also provide counselling servises in Fulham, South West London at a doctor surgery which is close to South Kensington, Earls court and Parsons green.
I work at Canary Warf on Friday Mornings.
In the first session I do an assessment which enables me to understand the difficulties and also it is an opportunity to arrange further sessions, long or short term which is based on mutual agreement.

I provide On-Line/Telephone Counselling to deal with immediate difficulties. This service is suitable for crisis management.
The service is open 24/7 hours and is available nation wide and world wide.
It is usually 50 min session at a pre arranged time. It is available in English and in Asian languages (Bengali/Hindi).

I follow British Association Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) codes of ethics where I maintain boundaries, confidentiality as mentioned in BACP.

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