About Dean Richardson MBACP(accred) UKRCP(Reg) - Private Practice Counsellor (Portsmouth, Hampshire)

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Dean Richardson – Therapeutic Counsellor.
How Dean Richardson is Distinct from other Therapists.
Dean’s individual counselling service
Dean’s couple couple service
Dean’s group support therapy
Dean’s speciality
Why choose Dean Richardson as your counsellor?
Own Private Practice (Portsmouth & Skype).
Ethics.
Therapeutic Methodologies.
Dean Richardson’s Professional Qualifications, Training & Membership.
Qualifications & Primary Awards.
Explanation of Dean Richardson’s Qualifications.
Continuing Professional Development (highlights).
Professional Memberships.
Professional Counselling Specialities.

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Dean Richardson – Therapeutic Counsellor.

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Someone who can ask the questions …
… that no-one else in your life will ask.

Dean Richardson Dip. Psych. Couns., PG Dip. Couple Couns., MBACP (Accred), UKRCP Reg. (explanation of abbreviations) is an experienced, qualified, helpful and professionally ethical counsellor who provides therapies for individual, couples and groups .

Dean has been practising locally for over twelve years.

He is a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Accredited counsellor/psychotherapist offering private therapy in Portsmouth & Southsea, Hampshire, and via Skype video conference.

Dean is also a male counsellor.

How Dean Richardson is Distinct from other Therapists.

In counselling, Dean use no magic and no clever-sounding mind-techniques (such as NLP or hypnotic language). To some beginning counselling for the first time, it can seem like you and Dean are just talking/being social; but it’s a very special and effective kind of conversation that has helped people to rid themselves of burden, and to transform their lives.

Dean uses what looks like social-conversation as his main basis of therapy – paying attention to much more than just what is said verbally/the words – using psychodynamic analysis, counter-transference interpretation, human psychology and basic therapeutic skills to maintain/increase empathy in order that the relationship between client and therapist can be used to improve a client’s life.
Dean does not use art, nor drawings, playing roles or acting. He doesn’t use drawing-in-sand or puppets.
Dean doesn’t tell you what he thinks you aught to be doing to resolve your problems. He doesn’t prescribe courses of action that if you follow to the letter you will be “cured”. Instead, although it may seem unlikely to you, the resolutions to your distresses are within you; you and Dean will work together to help you discover them.
Dean’s individual counselling service
is primarily psychodynamic-based, but not scarily analytic (as some might imagine Sigmund Freud to have been); unresolved issues from our histories can have an ongoing detrimental effect on our present-day lives. With careful consideration at combining appropriate skills from other models (eg CBT, Gestalt, Person Centred), Dean can help you work through past issues so that your life can become released from past burden. We communicate with people in many ways other than just verbal. This can leave us wondering why we’re stuck in unhappy certain social patterns (“no-one ever seems to like me”, “I always end up in the same kind of relationship”). Using what’s called the “counter-transference”, Dean will help you learn about yourself in ways that can help you understand how people might relate to you. This can help you make conscious changes that will improve these unhappy patterns.
Dean’s couple couple service
is primarily systemic plus psychodynamic; patterns of behaviour are set up in a relationship to avoid pain and anxiety, sometimes this is helpful and the relationship manages, sometimes this is not helpful and the relationship suffers. Working through matters by perturbing the unsatisfactory patterns of behaviour can release a relationship into working through the shared anxieties, and can help the couple bond again. Similarly, couples who wish to separate, but are struggling to do so, can find working with Dean helps them find mutually-agreeable ways to separate from the relationship; couple counselling is not just about keeping a couple together. Couple counselling is a robust process – couples in conflict may tend towards arguing and bring out the worst in each other – all this is useful in helping the couple work through the bad stuff to help them find the good stuff.
Dean’s group support therapy
is based in the group analytic model and uses helpful group-facilitative techniques. Unlike some group leaders that tell group members what to do, Dean supports the group into leading itself. The group includes Dean as the group conductor rather than the group being lead by him. In this way the group, together, finds its own was through difficult matters and individuals within the group can find support from the whole group matrix.
Dean’s speciality
is a focus on sexuality and gender identification, working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people (LGBT) in personal therapy, couple relationships and groups (read more…). Whilst this is an area in which Dean specialises, he is also qualified to work with a forms of people for counselling, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, abilities within his qualifications to practice.

Why choose Dean Richardson as your counsellor?

Some points that describe Dean Richardson within his therapeutic work would include:-

Caters for a wide-range of counselling problems – regardless of race, sexuality, religion or class.
Maturity, experience, sensitivity, intuitiveness and empathy.
Professional Qualifications.
Clinically Supervised to at-least the minimum BACP guidelines of 90 min/month.
Has appropriate professional civil-liability/indemnity insurance.
Undertakes at least a minimum of 30 hours Continual professional development (CPD) training annually.
Professionally accredited by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Own Private Practice (Portsmouth & Skype).

Unlike some therapy service centres which present therapy services for selection, but their intention is to refer you to third-party therapists, by choosing Dean Richardson you get to work with … Dean Richardson himself.

All the information on this website is written by, or about, Dean Richardson. If this website discusses a particular counselling service offered by Dean Richardson, then it’s Dean Richardson who you will be working with if you decide to take up that counselling service.

You can trust that when you decide to work with with Dean, it’s Dean who will be working with you.

Ethics.

Dean Richardson follows the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)’s Ethical Framework.

Therapeutic Methodologies.

Dean’s methodologies of therapies include the following:-

Psychodynamic, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for individuals,
Integrated Systemic & Psychodynamic couple relationship counselling (integrating aspects from other models).
Group analytic and facilitation-style principals for support groups.

Dean is fully qualified, supervised & experienced to practice as a counsellor the UK and assesses anyone for counselling regardless of presenting problem, age, gender, education, IQ, (dis-)abilities, relationship status, sexual orientation or gender identification – to mention a few. Dean specialises in working with LGBT individuals and couples including mixed-orientation couples.

Dean Richardson’s Professional Qualifications, Training & Membership.

Qualifications & Primary Awards.

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These are the foundations upon which I practice counselling/psychotherapy/group therapy.

Diploma in Individual’s Counselling (Psychodynamic) (2003 – Chichester Counselling Services – BACP Accredited training course).
Post Graduate Diploma in Systemic & Psychodynamic Couples Counselling (2009 – Chichester Counselling Services).
National Foundation in Group Psychotherapy (2011 – IGA/GASE Brighton).
Business Coaching & Mentoring Individuals (1998 – IBM North Harbour, Portsmouth).
Group (Business) Meeting Facilitator (1997 – IBM North Harbour, Portsmouth).

Explanation of Dean Richardson’s Qualifications.

MBACP : Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. This membership indicates that I subscribe to the BACP’s Ethical Framework. I am listed on the BACP’s “It’s Good to Talk” directory.

(Accred) stands for “accreditation”; achieving BACP accreditation is an official and professionally-recognised way to authenticate a therapist’s substantial level of training, practical experience and continued professional development. The accreditation is reviewed annually with 10% of therapists audited each year.

UKRCP Reg. : Registered on the United Kingdom Register of Counsellors & Psychotherapists http://www.ukrconline.org.uk/

Dip. Psych. Couns. : Diploma in psychodynamic counselling (Chichester) – observes the psychodynamic model for counselling. This was a three year, BACP-accredited, training diploma requiring a minimum of 100 hours supervised individuals practice plus academic submissions to achieve the qualification

PG Dip. Couples Couns. : Diploma in couples counselling (Chichester) following an integrated systemic model, psychodynamic model and appropriate techniques from other models such as CBT & Gestalt. This was a fifteen month (2 days a week) training diploma requiring a minimum of 100 hours supervised couples practice plus academic submissions to qualify.

National Foundation in Group Psychotherapy : Certificate in attending course run by Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) via Group Analysis South East (GASE). 37.5 hours theory, 45 hours experiential group.

In short, certificates generally require a minimum attendance to the training, whilst diplomas also require a minimum number of hours of supervised practice.

Continuing Professional Development (highlights).

CPD:Continued Professional Development is a requirement of being a member of my professional body, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Each year I undertake 30 hours minimum of CPD. This allows me to keep in touch with the latest thinking around therapies, allows me to keep my practice current and modern, and allows me to expand my practice thinking by taking training that stretches my skills and professional abilities.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy “CBT With Heart” (2011-12 Hemmings Field Associates).
“Stopping Self Harm” (2011 – Veronica (Ronnie) Freeman, chartered counselling psychologist).
National Foundation in Group Psychotherapy, Institute of Group Analysis (2010-11 GASE – Brighton).
“It’s not me, it’s my OCD”, (2010 – Marple Cross Centre).
Introduction to Domestic Abuse (2009 – WSCC Harm Reduction team)
Online Counselling (2006-07 – OnlineCounsellors.co.uk – Kate Anthony BSc, MSc, MBACP).
Assessing Clients for Psychodynamic Counselling (2006).
Brief/focal psychodynamic psychotherapy (2004 & 2009).
Solution Focussed Brief Therapy “SFBT” (2005).
Psychosexual identification of male impotence (2002).

Professional Memberships.

Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy - MBACP (Accred) Counsellor / Psychotherapist [directory entry]
UKRCP Registered Independent Counsellor / Psychotherapist.
Wessex Psychotherapy Society.
Chichester Counselling Services.
Counselling Directory [entry here].

Professional Counselling Specialities.

As a professional therapist I have particular areas of interest in working with couple relationships; not just intimate/marriage relationships, but also couple relationships made of people who are not necessarily in an intimate relationship (eg business partners, family members, friends, flat-mates). This does not detract from my professional standards in offering general practice individual & couples counselling and support groups.

Dean Richardson, October 2011.

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