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Support for Student Counselling (Portsmouth & Chichester).

Dean works with student counsellors who are seeking counselling to support them during their training.

If you are a student whose course requires they seek their own counselling, the following criteria might help you decide if Dean might be a suitable counsellor for your needs:

• He is a BACP accredited counsellor of over ten years’ experience.
• He works psychodynamically with individuals
• He adheres to the BACP Ethical Framework (see Ethical Framework).
• He seeks and attends the BACP required minimum of 30 annual hours CPD.
• He receives regular supervision appropriate for his workload.
• His negotiable fees structure caters for a sliding scale – although places are limited (see “Fees”).

Some training – particularly psychodynamic counselling – requires the student to be in therapy for the whole time that the student is training.  This is essential as the student counsellor is required to use their self-awareness to assist in the client’s therapy.

Some training requires a set number of hours (decided by the training institution) to be achieved by the end of each training year.

I will negotiate with you your needs for your counselling support during your training, and in our assessment we can decide if working with me may (or may not) be suitable for you whilst training as a counselling student.

Related Reading:

Brief Group Counselling: Integrating Individual and Group Cognitive Behavioural Approaches (Wiley Series in Brief Therapy & Counselling)

Psychodynamic Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

First Steps in Counselling: A Students' Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

The Choice: Finding Life in the Face of Death: Six Stories from a Therapist's Casebook

Feminist Counselling in Action

Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of Lgbt People in the United States