Further Details
During this 1 hour meeting we will discuss your needs and look at what support is required. Within an Assessment session, questions will be asked relating to difficulties you are experiencing or changes you wish to facilitate for yourself. Paperwork is filled out with details such as your medical history, family history and wellbeing.
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This is where myself or a member of my team may suggest areas of support such as couples therapy, a parenting session or family therapy as a suitable way forwards.
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Alternatively, you may wish to move forwards with one-to-one therapy.
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Where an assessment is being carried out for a child under 18 years of age, the parents are required to attend on their own first. During this time, your therapist may recommend a separate Parent session in order to support your child in their own therapy session.
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The assessment sessions are a designated time to look at your needs or that of your child within the family. Your therapist is there to support you and make suggestions to enable you to navigate the best way forwards. Willow offers a range of therapy sessions and your therapist can explain these during the appointment.
These sessions are for 1 hour and focus on your needs along with a look at family constellations and your own familial history to help you navigate your way forwards.
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Often your therapist will draw on several modalities to support you. From CBT to looking at patterns of behaviour that no longer serve you well.
Strategies may be put in place to help you, along with goal setting. Tools and techniques will be gathered along the way to enable you to navigate areas such as anxiety and low mood.
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The goal of these sessions is to become your true authentic self.
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When working one to one with children, it takes a minimum of 4 sessions to build trust. Once a trusting relationship is established with their therapist the child or young person is able to bring to the room, areas that are causing concern or anxieties for them. Through these open and honest conversations, we can start to look at areas we are in control of and what we can change. We often focus on language here and self talk in order to create a shift or a change in behaviours, feelings and emotions.
These sessions are for 1 hour and focus on communication and ways of relating.
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We often look into childhood and family dynamics so each person can hear the others story. Often in couples' sessions it is a time to sit, listen and reflect. A time and space to listen to each other without interruption. The main focus of the session is The couple.
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During a typical session, the couple may be observed in how they communicate with one another, and constructive feedback offered. Ways of relating may be challenged and ideas for moving forward discussed. The sessions are a collaboration between the couple and the therapist in how best to navigate new and healthier ways to relate to each other.
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Family dynamics may be discussed to look at any areas where change may be helpful to create a more harmonious environment and to better aid communication.
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These sessions are challenging but can equally be fun and create a new way of being as a couple, which in turn can filter outwards supporting healthier family dynamics.
These sessions are carried out with confidentiality to the whole family. Members of the family may be seen together or individually to ascertain the dynamics and look to where the root of the issue is. Often communication breaks down in a family due to life events and changes or areas such as differences in how to parent children. There may be pressures within the family structure that have an impact on communication. It may be that outside influences or situations outside of your control have had a detrimental impact upon your family. We look together to repair ruptures and find a new way of being as a family that allows everyone to feel heard and seen.
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These sessions can feel challenging as often it involves family members being encouraged to speak their truth and that can be hard to hear at times. Your counsellor is trained to facilitate this in a fair and inclusive way where each member feels valued and their thoughts and feelings validated.
This can be a stand-alone session, or it may be a set of sessions to support you on your parenting journey. There is no set rule book to parenting and Becky will support you in an encouraging and motivational way. Parenting sessions will look at your child's way of being and help you to build on their strengths and capabilities. Tools and techniques will be suggested in order to support your child through areas such as anxiety, worries and stress.
Together we look at age-appropriate tasks and responsibilities that your child has around the family home in order to foster resilience and build self-esteem. We look together at your parenting platform and what is modelled to children within the family home.
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These sessions can leave you feeling empowered and ready to go away and implement some of the tools gathered within the session to better support your children as they grow.
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Often parents need encouragement themselves in how to parent and Becky brings to the room over 30 years of experience both personally and through the training she has completed over the years. Becky has worked extensively in this field and has a wealth of experience to share both with parents and professionals.
Becky has supported counsellors in training for almost 10 years in a variety of ways.
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Willow has been a designated practise that has seen a number of students on placement, working with adults and children. Becky is a respected supervisor and group supervisor and can offer diverse and challenging sessions to students training to be counsellors at Level 4 and above. Becky has extensive knowledge surrounding setting up private practise and running a busy well-respected agency within the local community. She has worked alongside CAMHS, within the NHS and in several school settings.
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Becky has a history of working in clinical and complementary therapy along with teaching alternative therapies prior to training as a counsellor and family therapist. She brings this extensive knowledge of working with people to the room when supporting students on their academic and personal journey.
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These sessions are discounted for students in order to support their training.
A parent and child session is often required when one parent is struggling in a relationship with their child.
This is specific targeted work.
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We work closely on the communication and why the rupture has occurred. Often it can be a culmination of events over time. Or simply a child feeling misunderstood, unheard or their feelings not being validated.
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In many parent child relationships, it can be about miscommunication. We sit and look together at the story that has brought the relationship to the room.
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Each person is given the time and space to talk. Becky facilitates the conversation between a parent and child in order to better understand the dynamics.
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These sessions can feel challenging for parents and for the child.
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But by having a third party in the room to facilitate, we can start to deconstruct unhealthy patterns of relating.
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We can then move forwards listening to one another from a place of compassion and understanding. This can aid a new way of communication for the parent and child. These sessions can often feel emotionally charged and time is needed away from the room to process and reflect.
It does take courage and bravery to step into the counselling room to look at issues, behaviours and events that have led to communication breakdown for a parent and child.
These sessions are often referred to Willow via the two solicitor's firms that Willow works to support. Often parents navigating divorce struggle to communicate about issues regarding the children. Becky has been trained in working with high conflict and in supporting parents to keep the child at the centre. Becky works with court process cases and can liaise with CAFCAS in order to put the child's needs at the centre.
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This particular way of working involves Becky meeting with the parents individually or together and if deemed appropriate she will also meet with the child. Becky can be called upon to support parents in being able to better communicate after a divorce or separation.
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This work can be carried out in the room or via zoom if deemed more appropriate.
Becky works as a Clinical supervisor to support counsellors and psychotherapists. It is a requirement of the BACP that in order to work ethically we need a minimum of 1hr30 supervision hours a month. This allows us to keep our client at the centre when working therapeutically with them. Becky utilises all of her skills and the knowledge she has gained over the past 30 years to inform her way of working.
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Please click on each of the above boxes to read how Becky works with her clients to see if this way of working can support your own counselling journey. Finding a supervisor to support your work can be a daunting prospect and making sure that it is the right 'fit', is essential in order for you to bring the best version of yourself to your clients.
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Please don't hesitate to call Becky to talk through your needs as a counsellor. Working collaboratively is an important part of the therapeutic relationship between Supervisor and supervisee.
Becky is always happy to discuss ways of working and is constantly striving to learn from others as well as sharing knowledge gathered over the years.
Working with children, safeguarding is a large aspect of the work when working with suoervisees placed in schools or agencies.
Becky adheres to the BACP code of ethics when supporting supervisees.