Ruth Mackintosh

Mondays and Thursdays.

Hello. I am Ruth, I am an experienced counsellor accredited by The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

The approach to counselling that I work with is known as the Person Centered Approach. 

For me this means that the counselling is focused on you as the individual person. I have not advertised a long list of issues that I have experience with because though I may have gained some insights into specific issues it is important that I hear specifically how each issue affects each individual. 

Over the 20 years of my practice I have met with many individuals and my passion in this work is because everyone is so unique and has their own way of exploring the events of their lives within the therapy and finding their uniquely creative way through. 

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Please counsellor, just listen.  As I tell you of my life

Don’t offer fixed solutions, or judgement or advice.

I need the time to talk about experience and pain

To try and understand it all and find myself again.

I need to clarify the thoughts that spin around inside me

I need to take a deeper look at feelings that still hurt me

They do not seem so frightening

They do not seem so mad

Not so overwhelming

Not so bleak and not so bad

I can start to see the truth of it

What is false and what is real

If you are standing next to me

Hearing what I feel

My practice is based within a few minutes walk of Romsey town centre. This is close to the train and bus stations. There is parking on the street outside or in nearby car parks.

There are two steps up to the door but a level access venue can be arranged.

I work face to face, or Online or a mixture of both 

I am happy to offer a phone call or brief face to face visit  without charge. 

This gives the opportunity for you to meet me. 

You can talk about what your aims and expectations are from counselling. We can begin to get to know each other to see if it feels OK to work together. 

I can discuss with you the administrative things like data protection so that these do not take time in the counselling session. 

Please make contact to discuss available and mutually suitable times. 

My rate for Individual Supervision is £70 for an hour and £105 for a 90 minute appointment. 

My rate for Group Supervision and for Organisational Supervision is £80 per hour.  £120 for a 90 minute session. 

I have experience as a Supervisor for individuals including counsellors in training and for groups. 

Having run a counselling service I also offer supervision for people in organisational, management, or supervisory positions.

I am passionate about the need for supervision, for self care and professional support. Describing it as the hard hat required on the building site of our work.  

My counselling training is in the Person Centered Approach and my supervision training included many different modalities. 

My aim as a supervisor is to create working alliance in which my part is to hear about the clients that you are working with, and to hear about your feelings and ideas in relation to your clients. To support and encourage and, where necessary challenge. To offer a place to offload, to explore, to test out ideas, to connect theory and practice. A place where anxieties, doubts and disagreements have a voice.

I am experienced in working with ethical dilemmas.

I have deliberately not ticked the boxes in the list of issues but I can offer the experience of 20 years as a counsellor and 14 as a Supervisor. In addition, I have run a large low cost counselling service and been involved as a Supervisor of Counsellors in training. 

I am based close to Romsey town centre.

There is parking outside or in nearby town centre car parks. A short walk to the train and bus stations. 

There are two steps up to the door.

I also offer Online Supervision or a mixture. 

If your supervision is paid for by an employer or organisation I will send invoices to the contacts that you provide. 

I am happy to meet initially with no charge to see if the way that I offer Supervision fits with what you need from Supervision. In this meeting I would suggest that you bring some anonymous casework for us to discuss.