Charlotte Withey

CURRENTLY ONLY VIDEO OR PHONE SESSIONS AVAILABLE

I offer a safe confidential space to allow you to explore and share your thoughts and feelings without judgement while feeling secure in a space you can trust.

As a qualified accredited counsellor, I can fully appreciate that daunting experience you may feel with talking to someone about aspects of your life, which possibly you may never have talked about before.

The core of my practice centers on helping people move through the stages of process towards their healing process. 

I understand that there will be times when it will be hard or even impossible to talk. As an integrative practitioner, I have been trained and have experience in suggesting and guiding clients through different ways of looking at what is happening and to make more sense of it.  Above all though, I aim to respect you as an individual in what you chose to share and how you wish to explore thoughts and feelings during sessions.

What I offer

I am able to offer long term and short term sessions working with different approaches to ensure the development of a beneficial therapeutic relationship with each other. These include TA- Transactional Analysis, Person Centred, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness and Sand Tray Therapy.  

Although I use these approaches my core approach is Person Centred, which means that all our sessions are client lead and allows you to explore and look at self. This allows us together to explore and learn more about you. 

I also work as a child play therapist in local schools. 

What to expect in our first session

Following on from our initial contact I offer a 50-minute assessment to understand your current needs and talk together about what you may be looking for and how to move forward. 

Following this assessment, we discuss whether you are happy to continue therapy. 

With school sessions, I will try to meet the parents if this is suitable or have a meeting with the person that referred the child.  

We then will make a therapeutic contract setting out the cost, location with date and time and possible length of work together as I offer long term and short term therapy.

I am also a qualified supervisor offering supervision to counsellors and trainee counsellors, teachers and support staff. 

I offer sessions on a monthly basis of 1 hour or 1 1/2 hours depending on your needs and requirements.

It is a BACP minimum requirement to have 1 1/2 hours per month.

My fee for supervision is £60 per hour.  £80 for 1 1/2 hours.

The counselling sessions will last 50 minutes and usually offered on a weekly basis.

My fees are £55 per session for Adult or Children counselling sessions and Supervision is £60 per hour. 

Group Supervision sessions are also available.

Limited concessions are available on request.

Play Therapy sessions at school are charged at £50 per session. This can be arranged via the school directly or I can arrange within a school setting. 

This is within Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. 

Fees are payable by cash or Bacs at the start of each session. 

(I have limited concession places available)

I have a 48-hour cancellation period before full payment is due.

Therapy Session are available in Abbots Langley with daytime and evening appointments available, alternatively I can offer sessions via phone or video on various platforms.

BUPA and Nuffield Health insurance registered. 

My Training, Qualifications & Experience 

BACP Accredited 

Certificate in Counselling Supervision 

Level 5 working with CYP

Integrative Diploma in Counselling CPCAB

Certificate in Counselling Studies CPCAB

Certificate in counselling Skills CPCAB

Counselling Children and Young Adults

Trained in Pregnancy and Infant loss

Certificate in Working with couples 

Certificate in understanding substance misuse

Trained in Couples and Relationship Counselling

Trained and experienced in Group Facilitation

Mindfulness and Stress Reduction

Creative Arts in Counselling

NSPCC Safeguarding

CAMHS Training for ASD and ADHD

CAMHS Training for Eating Disorders

CAMHS Training in Self-Harm 

PODS (Positive outcomes for Dissociative survivors)

BACP Certificate of Proficiency, Accredited Voluntary Register

I have experience in working with long and short term counselling working with adults and children, dealing with a wide range of issues including:

Bullying

Anger

Depression and Anxiety

Abuse

Trauma

Bereavement

Pregnancy issues and child loss

Relationship and Family issues

Self- Esteem

Work related problems

OCD

My background is in Childcare and have many years’ experience in early years and child development. I am also committed to safeguarding children and their welfare.

In addition to my counselling qualifications, I am committed to further training as part of my ongoing personal and professional development and undertake Continuing Professional Development workshops (CPD).

I am fully insured and have an enhanced current DBS (CRB)

I am also an accredited member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) and I am bound by its code of ethics

Privacy and Data Protection - I am registered with the ICO (Information Commissioners Office) reference number ZA360268. This means I need to inform you of what information I am collecting from you during our work, why I need it and what I intend to do with your information. This will be discussed in our initial assessment.  If you initially make contact with me via text or email before assessment all data will be confidential and password protected. If we decided that we will not be working together on initial contact all data will be deleted immediately and if at a later date you decide to start the process again we will start from the beginning as no contact information will be stored. If we do continue working together as mentioned, we will discuss any questions you have regarding this.  All data is stored inline with my insurance companies time frame of 5 years.  If you are not happy with the way I use your data, you can contact the ICO at www.ico.org.uk or phone them on