Gemma Kirkpatrick Therapeutic Counselling

About

Sometimes, we just need someone to talk to.
I am a Integrative, Person-Centred Counsellor and Psychotherapist. I can help adults and adolescents who are experiencing clinical depression, low mood, nervousness, sadness and anxiety.
A lot of my work is at a deeper psychotherapeutic level within counselling.

This can help with specialities and issues ranging from :

Progressive Disability
Chronic Illness including Chronic Pain
Health Anxiety/GAD
Clinical Depression
Feeling sad or Low Mood
Stress
Anger
Trauma
Grief
Coping Skills for long term emotional benefit.

I specialise in helping people who are struggling emotionally after a diagnosis of a degenerative disease, chronic illness, and neurological disorders, particularly neuromuscular conditions.
I support through therapy and encourage clients whom, after facing a life-changing diagnosis find themselves struggling to deal with the potential challenges and changes that may arise as a consequence.

I also specialise in Health Anxiety.

I use a range of talking therapies to help to support my clients.

I am an independent Counsellor.
Registered with the ACCPH an independent professional body and register for Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists.

I hold professional membership with ACBS ( Association for Contextual Behavioural Science ) for ACT

Spokz People (Supporting disabled people of Purple Therapy Framework )

DPPN (Disability Psychological Practitoners Network )

I hold membership with Counselling Tutor for management of all required CPD.
I hold up to date insurance and indemnity which allows me to practice world wide.

I work and adhere to the standards of ethical and good practice framework of the bacp. ( The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy )

I hold registered profiles with:
Wellbeing
Psychology Today
Find A Therapy

I have worked in Dementia Care and Neurorehabilitation as an HCA within the NHS and the private sector before embarking on training to be a counsellor after I was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy in 2014.

I also have a creative background in fine art photography and believe in the therapeutic benefits of art and photography.

I offer a personalised approach using integration, and will always offer a non-judgemental and safe space for you to explore your own issues in your own time and at your own pace.

I am fully insured and registered as a private counsellor to offer online therapeutic sessions confidentially via email, messages, voice or video call.

I am a therapist that views you as a whole, listens, offers empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard.

I consider my approach to be more pluralistic in nature, I believe in the consideration of using a combination of methods from different approaches and the benefits of a collaborative effort with my clients to find what is best for them.

Relational depth and building therapeutic alliances is at the core of my therapy and very important to me.

I am passionate about bridging the gap in therapy for disabled people.

I have worked, and continue to work with disabled clients and clients with progressive illness and chronic conditions.
I am a Disability-Affirmative Therapist.

I am a supporter of the Purple Therapy Framework and offer a flexible approach to therapy for all clients.

Regardless of what a client chooses to bring to therapy, helping them to navigate living a life which is rich in human emotion and purposeful is at the heart of my work.

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