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Chris Masterton

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors
About the Therapist
About the therapist:
I’m interested in how our stories, and the way we tell them, affect how we live. I hold confidentiality, curiosity, and consistency as key values in my work.
 
I believe that conversion therapy is harmful and I recognise that systemic racism affects mental health and the therapeutic relationship, and view my work in addressing these inequities as ongoing.

 I understand that it may feel important for you to know your therapist's sexuality, gender history, relationship experience or neuro-identification and I welcome these thoughts and concerns in sessions. A key part of ethical therapeutic practice is, in my opinion, ensuring that therapy is about you. For that reason, I do not disclose these aspects of my identity as part of my work (and have selected 'no' as a default to all below).

I am a member of and work in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the UKCP and the BACP.

Sexual identity:
  • Other
Gender identity: Male
Gender history: Prefer not to say
Non-monogamy: No
Intersex: No
Neurodivergent: No
Personal pronouns: he/him
Qualifications - Links to websites:

I undertook my postgraduate clinical training over four years at the University of Oxford. This master’s qualification forms the foundation from which I continue to develop and learn as a therapist.

Please feel free to visit my website, or email me at chris@mastertontherapy to arrange a meeting.

Qualifications - Additional:

Core Training

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling - University of Oxford
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Practice - University of Oxford
  • MSt in Psychodynamic Practice - University of Oxford

Additional Trainings

    • Remote Therapy
    • Working with Diversity
    • Short-term Therapy
    • Neurodiversity

 

Experience and approach:

Therapy works by inviting you to talk about whatever comes to your mind, starting an intuitive process, which does not involve fixed tasks or homework.

We are amazingly complex, and it is not possible to know what path a course of therapy might take. Open-ended talking therapy offers a unique opportunity to spaciously explore who you are in a relationship that is radically different to any other.

However, if this is not the right time for you to embark on long-term therapy, we can discuss working in a time-limited way, usually over a minimum of 6 weeks.

Sessions last 50 minutes.

My career, spanning education, social care and psychotherapy, has given me the privilege for over a decade of exploring the human condition with a wide variety of people with diverse aims and challenges.

Approaches:
  • Psychodynamic
Relationship styles:
  • One to one
Access:
  • Partially wheelchair-adapted
Age ranges:
  • Adults
  • Seniors (60+)
Online status:
  • In Person

The fee for the first session is £55, and the rate for ongoing sessions can be discussed in this initial meeting.

I accept payment by card in the session or by BACS.

31 Castle Street, Reading, Berkshire , United Kingdom
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Email: chris@mastertontherapy.com

Website:

https://mastertontherapy.com/#
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