Emily Bellaby

Name: Emily Bellaby
Address: Mottram Rd, NOTTINGHAM, Nottinghamshire, NG9 4FW, United Kingdom
Telephone: 07511866862

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I am passionate in my support with the LGBTQ+ community as an ally and value diversity. I have both personal experience and experience of working with clients or couples who identify as LGBTQIA+ and who wish to explore gender / sexuality issues. I offer a safe, and judgement free environment where, together, we can identify and explore areas that you might need support in and discover your own unique way of being that feels right for you.

I hold a special interest in issues regarding neurodiversity, gender, sexuality, identity, identity based trauma along with female hormones, perimenopause, and menopause.

I would say that I am a fun, creative, safe, caring, open, authentic and empathic person.

I am passionate about my work as a Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor. My values as a human being and also a Psychotherapist very much align, in that I value; honesty, integrity, openness, causing no harm, uniqueness of others and their experience, acceptance without judgement, equality, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, and the expansion of insight in to ourselves and those around us. I believe that everyone has the right to meet their potential in all areas of their life and also the natural ability to achieve this, but that sometimes the conditions for this have not been created which is something that therapy can offer.

As an adult with late diagnosis of ADHD / ASD and a parent of two children with ASD I have extensive knowledge of this area, navigating the complexities of pre & post diagnosis, and of celebrating uniqueness and diversity. I will offer a warm, accepting, and safe environment where we can explore together your own ways of being, how these might be for you and find ways to support you moving forward wherever you are within this part of your journey. We will take as much time needed to get to know one another, what works for you, what doesn’t, and find a shared language and way of expressing your experience. I want to accommodate you and your needs whether this may be sensory, structure of the sessions, methods of communication, etc so that you are able to maximise what you gain from the sessions and we can explore these together.

There is no set of criteria for being in therapy, you do not need a clear set of goals, being curious about who/how you are, in relation to yourself, other people in your life and how you experience being in the world is the best starting point. Starting new things, in this case therapy, can create apprehension, or a fear of exploring issues that may have, until now been avoided or buried. It can also bring a sense of excitement and unburdening, of change and growth.

Whatever your feelings at this point, we can explore them together, along with what they may mean for you and what you need and hope to get from your therapy.

In order to gain a sense of me and to ask any initial questions, I offer a no obligation 10-15 initial phone call. If we then arrange an initial session, the fee is £65 as are all subsequent sessions.

Sexual identity:

Other

Gender identity: Questioning

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: No

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: Yes

Personal pronouns: she / they

Qualifications - Links to websites:

I trained at The Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute (SPTI) from 2000 – 2005 and graduated with an MA in Person-Centred Humanistic Psychotherapy (Merit).

In 2017 I qualified as a Clinical Training Supervisor and am accredited with the UKCP.

Website: configurationspsychotherapy.co.uk

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award
MA Humanistic Person Centred Psychotherapy	SPTI / Derby University	2005
Diploma Clinical Supervision	SPTI	2017

Experience and approach:

I am an Integrative practitioner with the Humanistic / Integrative philosophy at the core of my approach. My philosophy is generated from a core belief that the relationships we have with ourselves and with others is at the center of everything we do and who we are. This, therefore, underpins all aspects of my Integrative practice and my belief that all things effect everything, we cannot separate anything out. Nothing happens in isolation; we cannot be in relationship in isolation.

I integrate theories that align in their philosophies, and where the therapeutic relationship that you and I develop, will in turn impact the quality of relationship you develop with yourself and others. When we have our experiences heard and understood the mind and body will connect and amazing healing experiences can be allowed.

Our minds and bodies are connected, are incredible and even more so when degrees of harmony can be found. However, for a whole variety of reasons we can develop a disconnect with our bodies, although they do hold onto what we have experienced and these stored experiences, memories, and feelings can manifest in many different ways that might not be helpful and you may want to change. I therefore incorporate working with an Embodied approach, which can help with expressing feelings when words aren’t as accessible.

All humans possess an innate drive to achieve their potential, an actualising tendency, a drive for fulfilment, and a striving to discover, maintain and develop psychological healing. I believe that you are the expert in your life, and I am simply here to walk alongside you as a support.

I have worked in Nottingham city schools with primary aged children. I then took a year out to have my second child and moved to France. I went on to work in the NHS until the beginning of 2019 when I went into full time private practice.

In 2017 I qualified as a Clinical Training Supervisor and am accredited with the UKCP.

I have taught Humanistic & Integrative counselling & psychotherapy at Levels 2, 3 & 6.

My approach as a Clinical (Teaching) Supervisor reflects that of my approach to psychotherapy in that I work relationally / developmentally and from a trauma informed / inclusive perspective.

I aim to provide a safe space where supervisees feel able to bring both themselves and their client work so that this can be explored collaboratively. As a supervisor I see myself as offering an objective lens through which your work can be viewed and where I am removed enough from the therapeutic relationships with your clients that I am able to identify processes that may be occurring enabling us to explore these together.

As you take yourself in to your clinical work with your clients I am interested to know what might be impacting you in the here & now and what, from your own history, might be getting caught and will always provide a space for this.

I have significant experience of working with trainee practitioners and also offer academic supervision.

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