Jill Edwards
Counsellor/Coach in Bristol
Qualifications:
- Diploma in Addictions Counselling European Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB) (distinction), CPCAB, 2002 Awaiting Verification
- MSc Counselling, University of Bristol, 2006 Awaiting Verification
- Bachelor Social Science, University of Natal, Durban, 1962 Awaiting Verification
Governing Bodies:
- Social Care Register, General Social Care Council Awaiting Verification
- MBACP, BACP Awaiting Verification
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Jill Edwards
Ground Floor Flat
89 Beaufort Road,
Bristol
BS5 8EG
United Kingdom
07948354827 and 0117 9426830
Catchment Areas:
- Brislington
- Easton
- Kingswood
- Eastville
- St George
- Bedminster
Personal Profile
I am a professional counsellor with accreditation with the BACP. This assures you that I will follow a set of ethical principles of action and that I have a sufficiently broad base of experience and training. I can offer you counselling that is safe, supportive and professional.
My training supports my working, face-to-face, by telephone and by e-mail exchange.
I specialise in supporting changes, sometimes in behaviour and sometimes in the way we see things, and what we value. This practice was largely forged in work with alcohol addiction, but has had application in all sorts of personal development work and counselling.
The training which supports this work includes a Masters in Counselling which mainly focused on Narrative Therapy, broad-based training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
I completed a course for on-line counselling and currently have clients who prefer to work this way.
I am happy to focus on what your needs are when you come to work in my room and to support you with my skills in whatever way works for you.
Work Approach
THE ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT APPROACH
I want to showcase this therapy amongst those I practice as I believe this therapy offers therapists and their clients a healthy framework to work in. It offers a deep acceptance of the pain and suffering which you and others have experienced, but it does not support the ineffective avoidance strategies which many people practice.
I think you can become motivated when it is clear, what it is you value in the various arenas of your life, your relationships, work, lifestyle identity etc. Some people want to fast forward their success in life and ACT is a very suitable platform for coaching for success.
There is an opportunity to learn skills to cope with stress. Mindfulness skills form the basis of this together with the psychological flexibility learnt through defusion, a separation from the natural capacity we have to imagine a future in which the difficulties we fear are amplified. ACT is "third wave", the new direction, from the behaviourists and CBT.
Underlying these skills is the practice of living in the present moment and recognising that our identity is to be found in the awareness we have of that process and our acceptance of this process as against struggling to to live with the ideas we have about ourselves - a conceptualised self.
The conceptualised self holds the critical voice and the demanding voice of perfectionism from which so many of our people suffer.
With support we find that people can commit to act differently in order to achieve results which are in line with the values they hold. These are not goals, not set in stone, but a flexible direction in life, which is personal to them and makes the work of dealing with their pain and suffering worth while.
Taking this further, you may like to read
"Get out of your mind and into your life, the new Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" by Spencer Smith and Stephen C Hayes is an excellent book to give to clients to use for self-help and to amplify the work you do together.
http://www.contextualpsychology.org/act is a website with a lot of information and contacts for the more theoretical basis of this way of working.
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