Yolanda Frost

Yolanda Frost is a fully insured, licensed and BACP-registered counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of professional and counselling experience. She specialises in supporting people with grief and loss, anxiety, relationship issues and the everyday struggles that can reduce life quality.

She currently offers therapy via live chat and asynchronous messaging only and maintains a recurring schedule that can suit those who are up early. If messages are sent to her inbox she aims to respond within 24 hours. Yolanda is willing to share resources and work through specific life issues with clients. She does not provide emergency support - if a mental health crisis is suspected she advises contacting local crisis services, the Samaritans on 116 123, or, in an emergency, calling 999.

Yolanda works in a person-centred, experiential way that attends to thoughts and emotions as well as sensory and bodily experience. She often uses a body-mind route to help people who struggle with anxiety and nervous system regulation, believing that attention to bodily sensations can aid coping and emotional regulation. Her manner is calm and empathic, and she creates a non-judgmental, caring space for clients to explore what may be holding them back.

She has several years of experience working within a hospice setting, providing counselling to people and families affected by pain, grief and terminal diagnosis. Yolanda has seen how counselling can benefit whole families during those very difficult times and works with complex, overwhelming and sometimes unpredictable feelings that follow loss - including anger and resentment - to help clients find some comfort, build resilience and make meaning.

Beginning therapy can feel daunting, and Yolanda encourages people to reach out even if they are unsure what they need. At the outset she discusses needs and goals and agrees on a number of sessions. She usually recommends at least four to six sessions before reviewing the work and planning next steps.

Yolanda takes part in continued professional development and has regular supervision in line with her ethical framework. Training and CPD she has completed include Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Certification Training (CCTP-II) Blakelee, Schwartz and Fisher - PESI; Embodied Meaning - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspectives - Tony Buckley; Internal Family Systems - Frank Guastella PESI 2-day Intensive Workshop; Grief Works - Julia Samuel BACP; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Charles Jacob PESI; New ways of thinking about gender, sex, and relationship diversity - Meg Johnson BACP; Understanding and Working with Shame in the Person-Centred Approach - Helen Skelton; Movement and feeling - BACP; Anxiety Certification Course - CBT and Response Prevention - PESI; Safeguarding Adults Level 2; Sexuality and Erotic Transference & Counter Transference.