Fiona Everatt
I am a qualified and experienced counsellor with a strong background in sexual trauma. I have worked with a variety of client groups including young people, those with bereavement issues, survivors of rape and sexual abuse, adults with a learning disability and physical illness. My work in these areas has given me a strong interest in empowerment and the blocks/restraints which society can put on us.
I am a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy and am working towards accreditation.
My approach to counselling is fairly simple; I believe that people are the experts in their own healing. However for many reasons, we can lose touch with this and feel disempowered and disengaged in our own emotional worlds. I see my role as helping people to find their own ways back to themselves and their ways to heal.
I work in a person-centred manner, incorporating other ways of working where appropriate. This means that I follow the lead of the client and aim to empower them in finding their own way rather than my dictating what would be best. I believe this provides the deepest level of emotional healing and provides people with the tools, and faith in themselves, to better face emotional upset in the future.
Counselling, for me, is a journey. The land traversed is the inner world of the person seeking counselling. The relationship between therapist and client helps people reach their desired destination, which is usually the absence of whatever emotional discomfort brought someone to counselling. Each therapeutic journey is a unique one formed by the relationship between counsellor and client. No two journeys are the same and each is wonderful in its own way.