Sandra Taylor

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About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I am passionate about working with clients to improve and repair their relationships, whether their issues are in their early stages or feel insurmountable. I work collaboratively with partners, helping them to a deeper understanding and appreciation of themselves, each other, and their relationship.

I am an experienced relationship and individual therapist who was certified by ICEEFT as an emotionally focused therapist in 2012, I am also a certified supervisor and trainer.

I am a lesbian in a longstanding marriage, middle aged, white, disabled and a carer. My client work is primarily with LGBTQ+ people.

Sexual identity:

Lesbian

Gender identity: Female

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: No

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Personal pronouns: she/her

Qualifications - Links to websites:

BACP registered and accredited - MBACP (Accred)

ICEEFT certified member and trainer

2015 ICEEFT Certified EFT Supervisor
2012 ICEEFT Certified EFT Therapist
2011    Certificate in Relationship Counselling, Marriage Care
2000    Certificate in Person Centred Counselling Supervision, PCT Professional Development, Glasgow
1992    Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Eigenwelt Studies, Newcastle

2022-23 undertaking Diploma in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy - Pink Therapy.

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award
Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling	Counselling Tutor	2020
Certified Emotionally Focused Trainer	ICEEFT	2018
PhD	Manchester University	2013
See more here:	About Sandra Taylor - Potential Development (potential-development.co.uk)

Experience and approach:

I have more than 30 years experience as a counsellor and more than 10 of these working primarily with couples as an Emotionally Focused Therapist (an approach developed by Sue Johnson).

Partners come to therapy for a variety of reasons, for example: discontent with how they have drifted apart, to work on healing after an affair or other boundary transgression, differences in how they express their LGBTQ+ identities and the tensions this creates, exploring consensual nonmonogamy, coping with illness, loving each other and knowing their relationship could be better.

I work primarily with couples who are LGBTQ+ and take into account the past and current experience of being LGBTQ+ and its impact on them and their relationships. The degree I do this will depend on what clients want and how central, or not, this is to their issues.

The emotionally focused relationship therapist develops a strong therapeutic alliance with each client and helps each partner move beyond fighting and withdrawing into closeness and security.

The EFT approach facilitates partners to move from distress to loving reconnection by transforming negative patterns of interaction into safe emotional connection. Based on the science of emotions and attachment theory as well as humanistic and systemic theories, EFT has a high success rate in achieving secure, resilient relationships in couples.

Sessions are usually weekly for an hour and I work online only. We would agree together on how long you came for but it is usually for several months and can be for a year or more.

I aim to work in a way that is affirming, non-judgemental and non-pathologising and, knowing I won’t be perfect at that all the time, am committed to working through any offence I may cause so that we can have a safe and effective therapeutic relationship.

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