Tina Flanagan

My available hours are flexible on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 

Hello and welcome.

I work towards creating a comfortable, safe and confidential environment where you can voice your concerns, problems and thoughts involving your own experiences and personal difficulties.

The environment I provide is warm and offers reassurance. It is important you feel comfortable enough to share your private thoughts and feelings.

To encourage a positive rapport, and the building of trust, I offer my full, undivided attention, understanding and empathy, and good listening skills.

My approach to the therapeutic relationship stems from a creative person centred approach, integrating cognitive strategies and techniques. The roots of this approach are in humanism that attaches high importance to human kind and human values. I believe all individuals have their own internal resources for growth in order to find their own healing pathway towards reconsideration and adjustment. 

Throughout my therapy career of twenty years plus I have met with a huge diversity of adults. My counselling qualificatons and experience are relevant to working with adults from eighteen onwards.

There is no such thing as a typical day in my week.

Areas of interest:

Assertiveness;

Abortion Issues;

Abuse / Survivors of Abuse;

Academic Concerns;

Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions;

Aging and Geriatric Issues;

Anger;

Anxiety;

Breakup;

Bullying;

Caregiver Issues / Stress;

Chronic Illness / Disability;

Chronic Pain;

Power and Control Issues;

Creative Blocks;

Depression;

Disabilty

Divorce / Divorce Adjustment;

Fatigue;

Fear;

First Responder Issues;

Grief, Loss, and Bereavement

Health / Illness / Medical Issues;

Midlife Crisis;

Panic and Panic Attack;

Posttraumatic Stress;

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD);

Self-Care issues;

Sleep issues;

Stress;

Terminal Illness;

Work/employment issues;

Qualifications Include:

Certificate and Diploma in Counselling.

Certificate and Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy 

Diploma in Creative Therapeutic Methods.

Certificate in Work Settings. 

I offer counselling sessions which work towards solutions, assisting you to develop your own skills, strengths and resources for problem solving.    Counselling  appointments can last up to one hour.  The frequency of the sessions will be negotiated between you and the counsellor.

Participation in counselling is voluntary.  

Legal Limitations. 

If you, the client, disclose involvement in, or information about acts of terrorism, the counsellor is legally obliged to inform the authorities, and cannot inform the client of their intention to do so.

If you, the client,  disclose information regarding money laundering or drug-trafficking offences, the counsellor is obliged to pass this information to the police.

A judge or coroner can legally order the release of client notes. 

Other Common Limitations.

Supervision – British Association of Counsellor and Psychotherapy require that counsellors undertake regular, ongoing supervision of their client work. This is anonymised, and the focus of supervision is on the counsellor’s work rather than the client’s material.  

Risk of harm to self – If you, the client, are experiencing current suicidal thoughts with intent  the counsellor will work you to make contact with the crisis mental health team, and, or gain a doctors appointment.  In an emergency 999 will be contacted. 

Risk of harm to others –  In circumstances where there may be an increased risk to a child or vulnerable person, ethically, the counsellor will work with you, the client,  to make contact with the safeguarding team.  

The first session is an introduction to explore and become familar with:

The description of the presenting issue(s).

The focus for the presenting issue(s).

Modality and counselling plan.

Confidentiality explained.  

Risk assessed. 

Clients details checked. 

Fee. 

Follow up sessions will include:

Review of previous session.

Focus of this session. 

Any new information. 

Interventions made/techniques used. 

Focus of next session. 

Risk assessed. 

Fee.

As a counsellor it is important to safeguard client data ensuring it only stored necessarily and justifiably. 

 The data I need is your full name, full address including postcode, date of birth and a phone number.

Counselling notes are kept factual and brief.  

Availablity on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thrusday. 

Flexible about times. 

My approach to consultative supervision stems from the a creative person centred approach with influences from cognitive based strategies and techniques.  My heart is within humanistic that attaches high importance to human kind and human values.  I believe all supervisees have their own internal resources for growth in order to find their own learning pathway.  The hub of the person centred supervision focuses on the relationship between the supervisee  and the client's frame of reference. Supervision requires my full presence and immediacy.   I focus on working with the supervisees immediate reflective thoughts and feelings working at the supervisees pace and timing.  The core conditions of empathy, congruence and non-judgmental regard are a necessary requirement in facilitating relational depth.  My belief is when these faciliatative conditions are present they are: a motivating force for change, nourish and strengthen the supervisees self actualising tendency and facilitating the supervisees trust of their internal focus of evaluation.

The offering and facilitation of offering creative methods is underpinned by the Diploma in Creative Methods with the Northern Guild of Psychotherapy. 

The offering and facilitation of offering cognitive based strategies and techniques is underpinned by on line Certificate and Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy working seven plus years within IAPT services. 

The offering of time limited work/brief therapy  is supported by Counselling Skills in Work Place Settings with Others with Oasis School of Human Relations.  I have worked  with employment assistance programme as an self employed counsellor for the last twenty years plus.

I work with qualified therapists and allied professionals.   I have additional qualifications of Certificate in Social Work and a Diploma in Connexions.   

I have worked with many presenting issues over the years no one day is the same. 

My practice as a Consultative Supervisor is underpinned by:

The Certificate and Diploma in Counselling which I completed with Humberside University/Humberside and Lincolnshire University in 1996.

Person Cented Counselling and Practice Issues in Person Centred Counselling in 1997.

Granted status of Certificate of Accreditation with British Association of Counselling since 2007.

Theory and Practice in Clinical Supervision, an Introductory Training with Leeds Counselling in 2010.

Post Graduate Certificate and Diploma in Person Centred Supervision with Temenos which I completed in 2011.

Cruse Bereavement Care Supervision Certificate in 2014.

I offer Consultative Supervision for qualified counsellors and allied professionals. 

Creative, fun, serious, reflective, catalytic, cathartic, mutuality, boundaries, informative, identifying strengths, conflicts and so much more.  

Just imagine a drawer of unpaired socks.  Hopefully at the end of the consultative supervision session these socks will be matched and paired!

The first session is a meet and greet of maybe half an hour, no charge. 

Can we work together?

Identifying expectations. 

Agree a statement of understanding.