Kingsclere Counselling Service

Rachel Allen

Psychotherapist, Consultant & Trainer

Appointments Available: Wednesdays

Fees: Fees are charged on a sliding scale, please contact me for further details

As an integrative psychotherapeutic child counsellor I work with children and adolescents using a client focussed, Attachment and Trauma Informed, methodology. Clients work at their pace, using the resources provided as they choose. My purpose and aim is to enable clients to gain understanding of self and context and to take control of their narrative.

My career began in teaching and progressed through school management toLocal Authority Education Advisor. Latterly my work focussed on Care Experienced and Vulnerable Children and Young People. I gained a Diploma in working with Care Experienced Children in 2019 and this, together with my Advisory work led me to train as a Child Psychotherapist.

As well as working as a face -to -face therapist with children I offer Training and Consultancy to staff working with them in schools or other Education settings, and to parents/carers/guardians and social workers, often via Children’s Services or Adoption, Services.

I continue to undertake both voluntary and paid work for The Trust House Reading (THR), with whom a large proportion of my voluntary hours were completed. I hold an enhanced DBS, am signed up to the Updating Service which allows all recruiting my service, to check the document and I am a registered member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Training & Experience:

My training was undertaken at The Institute for Arts Therapy in Education, Islington, London. The 3 year course required completion of 200 voluntary clinical hours, which, due to also working full-time and to the Pandemic, I completed only in June 2022. At this point I gained my qualification.

In addition to this I have gained level 2 Dyadic Dialogue Programme training which informs all my work and often leads to working with parent/carer and child together. The addition of the Advanced Certificate in Life Story Work is imminent.

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