Space to Change
Counselling
Services for individuals over 18 years, in-person and online
Meet Sarah
I bring my own unique lived experience and professional clinical knowledge into my private practice. My mission is to create a space where individuals can talk, grow and change their inner dialogue and start making different choices.
My work spans from supporting clients facing severe depression and anxiety disorders, including issues related to suicidality, self-harm, childhood sexual abuse, to helping clients explore addictive behaviours, attachment wounds, harsh inner critics and very often 'feeling like they can't cope like everyone else'.
My personal experience of neurodivergence gives me an awareness and understanding of individuals living with or idividuals living alongside this neurodivergent umbrella. My neuroaffirmative approach offers tools and helpful strategies to support clients and family members.
I continue to work in various clinical settings and remain devoted to professional development. I have been part of the clinical team at Mind Barnet/Enfield for over 5 years and also work as a Qualified NHS Talking Therapies Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (CfD) therapist with Hertfordshire Mind.
How I work
My own 3 pillars of therapeutic growth are:
- Building a strong alliance with a client to foster trust
- Growing self-awareness and in turn, self-compassion
- Gaining the confidence to make different choices and change
The work can be open-ended or time-limited. For example, a client could reflect on their childhood and make useful links with how events might affect them in adulthood. Or, a client could concentrate on one specific goal or symptom they are struggling with. In both, the client's individual process is respected and held by me.
Collaboratively working with a client throughout their process helps them identify and change deeply ingrained negative patterns of thinking and behaviour through reflection, exploration, and the use of cognitive tools, resulting in greater self-awareness.
My additional training in Trauma Work has equipped me to effectively operate a trauma-informed practice and can incorporate simple breath work tools and emotion-focused strategies clients can use in their every day lives.
Qualifications & Training
~Continued CPD: ADHD & ASD Training, Addictions, Menopause, Anger Management, Attachment through the lifespan, Gambling,
~ Advanced training in Working Therapeutically with Domestic Abuse
~ Advanced 5 Stage Framework for Domestic Abuse training
~ Advanced training in Working Therapeutically with Trauma
~Accredited Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression, Metanoia
~Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling *European Qualifications Framework Level 5 West Herts College
~Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills Mary Ward Centre
~Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills City Library Institution
~Diploma (with Merit) Event Management in Marketing & Communications CIM, 2015
~Management Development Jill N.K Frienberg Management Training Consultancy, 2012
Get in Touch
Telephone: +44 7773 303 142
E-mail: sarah@spacetochangecounselling.co.uk
Address: 169 High Street, Barnet, EN5