Low self esteem therapy surrey

What happens at the initial appointment?

This will be a time to explore what brought you to psychotherapy and what are you looking for in terms of psychotherapy, counselling or analysis. It is a time to think, with the assessor what your issues are and to make a tentative plan moving forward.

All Sessions are 55 or 50 minutes long.

Having an initial appointment in no way commits you to ongoing sessions.

Is therapy or analysis a quick fix?

It all depends what you are coming to psychotherapy or analysis for. Usually psychotherapy or analysis is longer term work, looking at fundamental change.

Some people come to psychotherapy on a short-term basis to deal with a single issue, for example, a bereavement or redundancy.  Some people do not want to have long term in depth psychotherapeutic work.

What are your fees and payments?

Please checkout our fee page.

We invoice twice monthly, usually on 15thand the last day of the month. You can pay after each session by cheque, cash, debit or credit card.

We charge for all missed session even when you have booked a holiday or you may be unwell. However, if you need to cancel we try and accommodate a session within that week.

Surrey and Borders Partnership cannot recommend private clinicians of any type and would encourage you to continue to work with us should your needs change, but for your protection in the event that you wish to consult a private professional, below are some key qualifications and registrations that you should expect to see for the various professional groups.

Psychiatrists should have MBBS or MBChB, MRCPsych (for psychiatrists) or MRCP (for paediatricians).  They should also be registered on The medical register - GMC (gmc-uk.org)

Nurses should be registered on the NMC: Search the register - The Nursing and Midwifery Council (nmc.org.uk)

All Counselling Psychologists and Clinical Psychologists are registered with HCPC. They may also register with the British Psychological Society Check the Register and find a registered health and care professional | (hcpc-uk.org)

Cognitive Behaviour Therapists may have a core professional training and may also be registered with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BACP) CBT Register UK

Association for Family Therapy (AFT).  Members are registered as Family & Systemic Psychotherapists through the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Find a Therapist (psychotherapy.org.uk)

Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) https://childpsychotherapy.org.uk/ accredited register of the PSA Register of Members | Association of Child Psychotherapists (childpsychotherapy.org.uk)

British Association of Art Therapists members are registered with HCPC https://www.hcpc-uk.org/check-the-register/

British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy  registered via BACP (accredited register of the PSA) BACP - British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

British Association of Drama Therapists https://badth.org.uk/,  members are registered with HCPC

British Association of Music Therapy members are registered with HCPC Check the Register and find a registered health and care professional | (hcpc-uk.org)

Play Therapy UK https://www.playtherapyregister.org.uk/ accredited register of the PSA

UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) accredited register of the PSA Find a Therapist (psychotherapy.org.uk)

Counsellors: ideally registered/accredited with www.bacp.co.uk or www.psychotherapy.org.uk.  This means a counsellor/psychotherapist has satisfied certain rules on training, practice and ethics.  However, there are currently no laws in the UK regarding counselling and psychotherapy though guidelines recommend that, in order to practice, counsellors should have completed at least an appropriate diploma, however often many will have a BSc (Hons), BA (Hons), MA, MSc or a PhD.  Accredited Psychotherapists should have at least a Master’s Degree.

Low Self Esteem

Do you see yourself as weak, not good enough, inferior to others, worthless, unattractive, unlovable, a loser or a failure?

It is important to know that low self-esteem is a common problem for many people and often refers to how we see, think and place value on ourselves. If the person’s value of themself is constantly negative there is a strong possibility they will develop low self-esteem. Low self-esteem has been shown to be connected with a number of negative outcomes, such as depression.

However, people with high self-esteem focus on growth and improvement, whereas people with low self-esteem tend to focus on not making mistakes McLeod, S. A. (2012).

They could be told ten good things about themselves and one bad thing, but they often focus on the one negative thing playing it over and over in their mind. Low self-esteem sufferers usually have a deep-rooted mindset of harmful internal beliefs. In their mind, these beliefs are facts or truths about themselves and they often interpret non-critical comments as critical.

‘I recommended J’ to a friend and told them counselling will give you the tools to navigate through the hard times and uplift your outlook on life all around, It’s a good way of clearing your head’.

Contact us by email or call us on 07860518293 to find out more, or to arrange an appointment with one of our therapists.

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