Tracey
Hello, I’m Tracey and a qualified counsellor with a Diploma in Integrative counselling and a full registered member of the BACP (MBACP) working to their codes of professional ethics.
My counselling experience has covered children, young people, and their families, as well as adults of all ages. The work with children and young people has taken me into primary and secondary education as a therapeutic counsellor for Place2Be and Your Space Therapies, private practice, and Lanes.
Working with adults, this has been through agencies as a volunteer as well as my own private practice and at Lanes, aiming to help you understand your own unique situation and experiences and support your autonomy for change where it is needed and wanted.
Because we are all unique, I feel using different approaches can benefit your counselling journey including person centred which I believe is at the centre of the work, I also enjoy working creatively when this is something that you also choose.
As we work together on your journey, you can choose yourself how long you want your journey to be, as well as choosing how you would like to work together, including online platforms, phone, and face to face in the comfortable and confidential setting at Lanes.
I offer a gentle approach with an honest non-judgemental space. I believe this enables the therapy relationship to develop at the pace to suit you with what you feel able to explore supporting you to understand yourself and your world.
My working career over 30 years has been across different aspects of family life, young children, young people, and adults, this has been in pre-school settings, primary schools and SEN schools. Across this time, I have gained additional experience and knowledge within neuro divergence and disability not just in children but across all ages and how this affects our mental health.
On a personal level, I enjoy flora and fauna and obtain ‘peace’ from the environment, this can be walking, experiencing new environments as well as my enjoyment of photography and art.
Work Experience:
- From 1987 – 1992 qualified as a childcare practitioner working in pre-school settings before opening my own nursery until 1999.
- 1991 – 1999 - working in SEN at primary schools including voluntary work.
- 1999 – 2013 - Business owner/photographic work/working with clients to enable their wishes and needs for weddings, family, and corporate work.
- 2013 – 2022 – childcare practitioner, SEN co-ordinator and Deputy manager of pre-school
- 2018 – 2022 – studying for Diploma and work experience with Place2Be, Arun Counselling and Broadway agency.
- 2021 – 2022 – working for ‘Your Space’ as a therapeutic counsellor in schools.
Particular interest in working with:
- Addiction
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Life transitioning
- Loss
- Low self-esteem
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Stress
- Suicide ideation
- Working with Neurodiversity, including ADHD, ADD, sensory issues and Autism.
Therapeutic approach:
- Integrative
- Humanistic
- Membership:
- MBACP
Education and Qualifications:
- BACP – Integrating Artwork into Counselling Practice.
- BACP/Cara - Body Psychotherapy
- BACP/Cara - Trauma training
- BACP/Cara - Understanding and Working with People on the Autistic Spectrum.
- BACP/Cara - Working with Children and Young people & Families.
- Children's Accelerated Trauma Technique (CATT) qualified
- Counselling Tutor/BACP - Online and Telephone Counselling – 80 hours completed.
- Creative counsellors/BACP - Walk and Talk Counselling and Ecotherapy training.
- DIPLOMA – Integrative counselling
- Place 2 Be - Working with Art in the Therapy Space.
- SEN training with Brighton and Hove council
I continue to develop my own practice through regular training and through my interests.
Some of the training that I have recently completed:
- Creativity as a healing tool
- Genealogy
- Suicide prevention and awareness – consistently updated.
- Safeguarding and prevent duty – consistently updated.
- Self-harm
- Supporting clients to access Autism and ADHD assessments
- Understanding ADD/ADHD/ASC in Women and Girls.
- Working with Metaphor and Creative writing
- Working with Social Anxiety
