Counselling and Therapy in Brighton and Hove
SERVICES
Ama Craven Counselling Therapy
- Individual Integrative Psychotherapy
- Life skills, study skills, help for students
- Mentoring
I have 20 year’s experience teaching and mentoring and six year’s experience of psychotherapeutic work with adults. Additionally, I work with university/higher education students delivering study skills and life skills.
I have considerable experience with adoption and fostering issues, eating problems, attachment, loss, anxiety and depression and self-exploration.
I offer an initial half hour meeting as an opportunity to discuss your circumstances and to determine whether our working together will be helpful.
Methods of Therapy
As a practioner of an integrative model of psychotherapy I can offer a combination of differing approaches. It will depend on your individual circumstances as to which approach will best suit your particular needs. Approaches I draw on are as follows.
Psychodynamic Counselling/Psychotherapy
The psychodynamic model recognises that may of our actions and responses reflect the effects of our earliest experiences which affect our relationships and our perception of the present. Where the past provides a blueprint of behaviour for the present, our current behaviour may not appropriate or satisfying. Psychodynamic approaches aim to bring information from the past, which may have been repressed, into consciousness, so that it can inform, but not drive, our authentic living in the present.
Based on work by the Freud, Jung, Adler, Winnicott, Klein and many others in the analytic tradition, psychodynamic counselling provides a secure and supportive relationship within which the client can explore and understand their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings and eventually reach some kind of integration between past and present.
The therapeutic relationship, particularly the transference and counter transference between client and counsellor, is central to this work.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
In response to increasing demand for effective and professional cognitive counselling and psychotherapy for a wide range of difficulties affecting individuals I have undertaken training and can offer cognitive psychotherapy as a method of working usually alongside other methods for increased effectiveness.
Over the last twenty years Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has become an increasingly popular approach for helping people with a wide range of mental health problems. The reasons for the popularity of CBT are many. First, there are now many studies that show that the way people think and give meaning to events, affects their emotions and behaviours. More importantly, however, is the mounting research evidence for the effectiveness, of CBT. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the treatment of choice as recommended by NICE (the National Institute of Clinical Excellence 2005/2006).
Solution focused Psychotherapy
People generally want to find solutions to their problems. By focusing on what will be different when the solution is found and by exploring possibilities for change, people can learn that alternative pathways towards the solution exist and change can sometimes occur within a few sessions.
Bioenergetic Psychotherapy
It is generally accepted that there is an inextricable link between mind and body. A therapy that doesn’t include the body is severely restricted. This is a method that integrates work with the body into understanding who you are and why you function as you do. A deeper awareness or connection is made to ‘self’ by getting in touch with the body as the repository of all life’s experiences. The aim is to increase energy based on the concept that the more energy a person has the more alive they are, meaning more thinking, moving and feeling.
Codes of Ethics and Practice
I abide by the Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and by the Professional Conduct Procedure (UKCP), and the ethical codes of practice of the (BACP).
I aim to ensure that all individuals and families receive equally favourable help irrespective of culture, race, sexual orientation, gender, religious persuasion or ability.
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
1984 – 1988
B.Ed Hons. Primary Education
1996 – 2004
Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy
Diploma in Integrative Counselling
MA in Integrative Psychotherapy
Foundation Certificate in Group Psychotherapy
Service Categories
Counselling, Psychotherapy
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