| in Stoke Newington, Hackney, north London |
The Burma Road Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice in Stoke Newington, Hackney, London N16 was first established in 1987 by Gina Barker and Su Fox, with the specific intention of providing high quality counselling and psychotherapy for individuals and partners.
Psychotherapist Chris Shingler and psychotherapist John Slade, came shortly afterwards. Over the years we have been joined by other psychotherapists and we now offer additionally, Supervision and Consultation services for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Body therapists.
WHERE ARE WE?
The Burma Road Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice is situated in a quiet residential street near Clissold Park. The house itself provides a spacious, comfortable and welcoming environment, with three well appointed consulting rooms over the first and second floors.
We are now in a Residents' permit parking area. However there are still some free parking streets and visitor meters within a 5-10mins walk. We are served by the following buses which are close by: 73, 341, 141, 393, 476, 236. Canonbury station on the Silverlink Line is a 10 minute walk away. Arsenal, Manor House, Finsbury Park, and Highbury and Islington tube stations are also within reasonable walking distance.
THE BURMA ROAD COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE IS:
Holistic - treating the person, not just the problem.
Personal - once you have contacted the therapist, you will be dealt with only by that person, not via receptionists or other staff.
Professional - all practitioners are either fully qualified, insured, registered, and accredited by nationally recognised bodies, in psychotherapy and counselling, or trainees under strict supervision by their reputable training organisations.
Punctual - provided you arrive on time for your appointment, you will be seen straight away.
Ethical - all psychotherapists and counsellors subscribe to nationally agreed codes of conduct and ethics, to protect clients from exploitation.
Confidential - client/patient confidentiality is maintained both outside and inside the Practice.
THE COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTITIONERS
We are a very diverse group of people, including Italian, Portugese, French and Spanish speakers, and we come from various Counselling and Psychotherapy training backgrounds.
We are able to offer a wide range of options. Currently these include:
- Attachment-based psycho-analytic psychotherapy
- Body psychotherapy
- Child psychotherapy
- Cognitive Analytic therapy
- Core Process psychotherapy
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
- Gestalt psychotherapy
- Humanistic psychotherapy
- Integrative psychotherapy
- Intercultural psychotherapy
- Lacanian analysis
- Lesbian and Gay
- Partner therapy
- Psychosynthesis/Transpersonal
- Psychodynamic/analytical
- Solution focused therapy
- Transactional analysis
CURRENT PSYCHOTHERAPISTS AND COUNSELLORS
Gina Barker UKCP reg.
Tel: 0207 275 8002
Email: ginabarker@blueyonder.co.uk
I have trained in Psychosynthesis and Attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy over a period of 20 years.
I have worked with people from many differing backgrounds, who have sought help for a wide variety of reasons and problems.
I work from the premise that relationship is as important to us human beings as is food, water and shelter, and I endeavour to use the therapeutic relationship as a tool to help people to understand and mourn past and present difficulties in important attachment relationships, and to enable them to move on into better relationships.
Gina is the Burma Road Practice Manager. If you're not sure what type of psychotherapy or counselling is right for you, please contact Gina in the first instance. She will help you find a therapist most suited to your needs
Mo Brown M.Sc. CQSW UKCP
Tel: 0207 226 7047
Email: mo@acumensystems.net
Mo Brown is a Psychoanalytic psychotherapist who trained at Nafsiyat Intercultural Psychotherapy Centre and University College, London.
The intercultural approach emphasises the importance of understanding emotions as being deeply connected to our social experience, while the psychoanalytic perspective works with the power of unconscious processes, especially those begun in childhood.
The dynamic relationship with the therapist is central in this approach, helping to understand how the inside and outside worlds intertwine in ways that can distort the personality, or promote healing and growth.
Mo works with couples, individuals and groups, and is particularly experienced in working with issues regarding sexuality, parenting, severe trauma and abuse. Mo also practices in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.
Michael Dunn
Tel mobile: 07977 563218
Email: mick.dunn@blueyonder.co.uk
I trained as an Integrative Psychotherapist at the Metanoia Institute in London. It is a therapeutic approach which encourages a person to increase their self understanding, to develop an awareness of a wider range of options, and to increase their ability to effect desired changes in their life.
I work with individuals with a wide variety of personal difficulties and I have specialist experience of working with compulsive and addictive behaviours. These include substance and alcohol abuse and also problem gambling, a subject on which I also train and lecture.
I am currently completing my Masters degree and my UKCP Registration.
My fees are negotiable with a minimum of £35 for 50 minute session.
Su Fox UKCPreg, ITEC, MTI reg, CSTA reg.
Tel: 020 7275 8002
Email: sufox@blueyonder.co.uk
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist, with 20 years experience, helping people with a wide range of issues; childhood trauma, bereavement, crisis of confidence, lack of direction, sexual orientation, search for the spiritual, to name a few.
I also practise Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing – An amazing technique for removing the fear from memories associated with trauma.
I am also an accredited Massage and Cranial Sacral therapist, and have a particular interest in issues relating to health, illness, and the body.
In addition, I offer Supervision, and support services to Counsellors, Psychotherapists, and Complementary health therapists.
Denise Ielitro, B.Sc., M.A., Adv.Dip, UKCP reg.
Tel: 079035 90881
Email: dielitro@googlemail.com
Denise is a psycho-dynamic/existentialist psychotherapist.
She qualified as a clinical psychologist in Rome and completed her studies in Berlin and London.
Denise has a background in integrative/humanistic counselling and has worked for the NHS and Mind. She also teaches postgraduate courses at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, part of the Schiller International University.
Chuey Y Loh
Tel: 07951 036381
Email: cyloh@btinternet.com
Website:www.chueylohpsychotherapy.co.uk
Core Process Psychotherapy is based on an in-depth understanding of human personality and existential processes and of human potential. The ‘Core’ is that unconditional state inherent in all of us, a state that is potentially present in every moment. Core Process is the movement from this inherent awareness or unconditional state to the way we develop our personality and the shape of who we are.
Core Process Psychotherapy is humanistic, integrative, transpersonal and psychospiritual in its approach with influences from reflections of the existential and phenomenological aspects.
It is also rooted in Buddhism, Buddhist psychology and awareness practices.
This combination of the Buddhist views and Western psychotherapeutic concepts brings together a focus of a body-mind awareness, which helps to centre on our present experiences with openness, spaciousness, compassion and clarity within a non-judgemental environment of exploration.
Chuey Loh has worked for several years as a counsellor and psychotherapist in London. She trained with The Karuna Institute in Devon.
Dr Annie Nehmad
Tel: 07957232906
Email: annie_nehmad@yahoo.com
I offer Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy.
English and Spanish are my mother tongues. I am fluent in Portuguese and French, and speak reasonable Italian.
Cognitive Analytic Therapy is an integration of psychodynamic, cognitive, and other ideas and methods. It is brief, focused, and collaborative. It is effective and evidence-based.
CAT enables people to understand, recognise and change the problematic patterns they have been engaging in. It can work on specific problems and issues, as well as on the whole personality.
CAT is useful for most people and most problems, including those with a diagnosis of “personality disorder”.
Solution Focused Therapy starts from what is working well for the client and builds on this.
The therapist will ask clients how they would like themselves or their life to be, and will help them work towards this.
It is suitable for any type of person, and any type of problem. It may be particularly helpful for people who are unhappy with aspects of themselves, their relationships, or their lives, but don’t want to have therapy – and also for people who have had a lot of therapy in the past without achieving significant changes.
Egle Vera Reeves
Tel: 0778 6815519
Email: eglevera@hotmail.com
Egle has trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in Argentina, within the French-lacanian tradition.
She is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute - Middlesex University.
Egle offers psychoanalysis to both children and adults. Her main language is Spanish.
Egle has worked as a psychoanalyst within multidisciplinary teams in different programmes in Argentina.
She has extensively worked with children with severe and combined diagnoses and with their families. Egle has also worked as a psychoanalyst in other non-conventional settings such as schools, shantytowns, GP surgeries in the outskirts of the city, and sometimes with groups.
For further information, go to section below on What is psychoanalysis?
Cathy Rostas
Tel: 0794 1325888
Email: cathyrostas@onetel.com
Cathy is a psychodynamic counsellor (BACP accredited) offering once-weekly counselling on a time-limited or open-ended basis. Each session lasts 50 mins. and costs £35(concession possible according to means).
Psychodynamic counselling is a type of in-depth therapy that has a long and respected track record that goes back to Freud and Jung.
We all have a tendency to repeat patterns of behaviour and even though we would like to change, we feel unable to.
In this approach to counselling the relationship between the client and the counsellor is central to the work being done, and painful situations in the present that have roots in the past can be understood in a clearer way.
Please contact Cathy on 0794 1325888 for an initial appointment.
John Slade
Tel: 0208 533 0022
Email: john.slade@blueyonder.co.uk
I was trained at the Minster Centre in London and I have held UKCP registration as an Integrative Psychotherapist since 1993.
I have extensive experience of working in Private Practice, within NHS Primary Care settings and within Specialist Agencies, delivering long term, time limited and brief intervention psychotherapy and counselling and clinical and casework supervision.
I work with individuals, couples and groups, and I am able to incorporate a range of styles into my practice; I think my approach is interactive, non-intrusive, pragmatic, and focused towards positive outcomes across a range of issues.
Kay Tromans
Tel: 020 7923 0852 or 07952 973708
Website: www.londoncounsellor.co.uk
Email: ktromans@btinternet.com
I am a very experienced counsellor and member of BACP and CCC. I think it is important as a counsellor to be involved in ongoing training and weekly supervision.The care and safety of my clients is of utmost importance.
My experience includes working with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, relationship problems, addictive behaviour, destructive behaviour, bereavement, sexuality issues, trauma and various other conditions.
My current works involves working for a Centre which has over the years given me the opportunity to work with clients from every walk of life for both long and short term counselling.
Gina Barker is the Burma Road Practice Manager. If you're not sure what type of psychotherapy is right for you, please contact Gina in the first instance. She will help you find a therapist most suited to your needs. Phone 0207 275 8002 or email: ginabarker@blueyonder.co.uk
WHAT IS COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY?
In our hectic world the stresses of life can manifest in physical illness or ailment, in exhaustion or in tension or in strained relationships.
Counselling and Psychotherapy are ways of understanding and easing emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties, usually by talking, over a period of time, to someone who is trained to listen and respond.
Counselling and Psychotherapy may help a you deal with specific problems or your whole life experience, and with difficulties in significant past or present relationships, (whether conscious or unconscious)..
WHAT IS PSYCHOANALYSIS?
Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy based on an understanding of the unconscious mind. Sigmund Freud found psychoanalysis a century ago. Today it is a thriving field of both theoretical and clinical practice.
Although all psychoanalysts agree on certain basic principles, there are a wide variety of training schools, theories, and approaches to practice.
In its clinical setting, psychoanalysis offers individuals time, continuity and space to work through their most subjective suffering.
It can also offer a route to insight, to a sharper understanding of oneself and the relationships with others, with work, with society, with life.
When working with adults, the patient will be asked to 'free associate', that is to say whatever comes to mind, being it present or past experiences, ideas, thoughts, dreams, fantasies, etc.
The possibilities of approach widens when working with children. Psychoanalysis with children gives great importance to play, drawing, and other activities in which the child might be interested.
FEES
These are arranged with your individual therapist, but are usually within the range of £35 - £70 for a 50 or 60 minute session. Initial Assessment interviews and placements cost £60.
CONTACTING US
You can contact individual therapists directly. Alternatively you can contact Gina Barker, Practice Manager, by telephone or fax - 0207 275 8002
by email - ginabarker@blueyonder.co.uk - for further information, or to arrange an Initial Assessment Interview, prior to placing with the most appropriate Counsellor or Psychotherapist for you. |
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