My name is Jo Read, I qualified in 2016 receiving the Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling accredited by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Awarding Body (CPCAB) through Sweet Track Counselling in Glastonbury and completed my counselling placement hours with the Sweet Track Agency. I am a qualified Social Worker as well as a Counsellor. I hold a current Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced certificate (DBS) for work with Young People under the age of 16 years. I have over 20 years experience of working with Young People and Adults in Youth and Community Work, Education, Mental Health and Social Care. I have monthly supervision and my own personal counselling to support my work and personal development. I have relevant insurance and am a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).
I work within the Person Centred counselling approach, drawing on the core conditions of unconditional positive regard, empathy, congruence and confidentiality, enables me to communicate clearly with clients and negotiate and sustain the boundaries of the therapeutic relationship. Whilst working within the BACP ethical framework, Values, Principles and Moral Qualities, enables ‘safety’ and professionalism.
The use of open questions and appropriate listening skills, such as reflection, summarising and immediacy enables the ‘client’ to ‘speak their truth’ and so help to identify their issues. For me this is a reciprocal interaction, in which I learn from the client about their process and experience and the client has the opportunity to learn from the experience of sharing and reflection to realise their true inner self, focus on themselves and begin to repair the relationship they have with themselves and in the world with others’.
In my experience, the fundamental benefit of counselling is to offer the opportunity for clients to be in a safe and boundaried space in order to speak their truth and to explore their feelings, thoughts and experiences in order to find their answers. As a counsellor I feel that it is important to enable the client to identify ‘their’ agenda.
The first session will give opportunity for us to make a decision about whether we will work together and if so we will complete what is called a ‘counselling contract’ for this as well as an initial assessment that will help to identify what you would like to achieve from counselling. This is also a time for you to ask any questions, in fact questions are welcome at anytime. Our agreement will also be reviewed along the way.
My aims:
• To provide counselling of value to Young People and Adults in distress
• To alleviate psychological suffering and work with you in an holistic way through the use of talking therapy and other relevant tools as agreed during the sessions.
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Jo Read qualified in 2016 with a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, accredited by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Awarding Body (CPCAB), through Sweet Track Counselling in Glastonbury, and completed her counselling placement hours with the Sweet Track Agency.
She is a qualified Social Worker as well as a counsellor and holds a current Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced certificate (DBS) for work with Young People under the age of 16 years. Jo has 8 years of experience providing therapy and over 20 years of experience working with young people and adults in youth and community work, education, mental health and social care.
Jo works from a Person Centred counselling approach, drawing on the core conditions of unconditional positive regard, empathy, congruence and confidentiality to communicate clearly and to establish and maintain the boundaries of the therapeutic relationship. She practices within the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) ethical framework, including its stated values, principles and moral qualities to support safety and professionalism.
Her sessions make use of open questions and listening skills such as reflection, summarising and immediacy to enable clients to speak openly and to explore their experience. Jo describes the process as reciprocal – she learns from clients about their process while clients gain an opportunity to reflect, focus on themselves and begin to repair their relationship with themselves and others.
Jo attends monthly supervision and receives her own personal counselling to support her therapeutic work and ongoing professional development. She has relevant insurance and is a registered member of the BACP.
The first session offers the chance to decide whether to work together, and, if agreed, to complete a counselling contract and an initial assessment to identify what the client would like to achieve. Questions are welcome at any time and the working agreement is reviewed during the course of counselling.
Her aims are to provide counselling of value to young people and adults in distress and to alleviate psychological suffering by working in a holistic way through talking therapy and other relevant tools as agreed during sessions.
Many people ask whether online therapy can genuinely help. For a range of common concerns – such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties or coping with life changes – online therapy has been shown to be comparable in effectiveness to traditional in-person sessions.
One major advantage is flexibility. Clients can connect in the way that suits them best: via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or in-app messaging. This flexibility often makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
All therapists involved are licensed professionals, and clients may switch to a different therapist at any time if they feel a different fit would be helpful.
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