Charmain Zwart

I have availability from Monday - Friday.  My hours are from 08:00 to 18:30. 

I am not available on bank holiday or weekends.

I have experience working with adults, adolescents and couples.    Individuals suffering from childhood and adult trauma, grief, pornography addiction, compulsive sexual behaviours and mental health issues, e.g. anxiety, depression, stress, anger, and panic attacks.   I have skills and experience in providing short term and long-term therapy by means of face to face, online Zoom.

In my private practice, I offer a transparent, respectful and authentic counselling service to my clients, giving them an opportunity for personal growth and development in their relationships. I believe it is important to offer and establish a safe, empathic and supportive environment for the counselling relationship; where people can safely explore and sometimes challenge their feelings, thoughts, behaviours, beliefs and values. I offer a comfortable and professional space in which to work during weekdays.

The first session on seeing the client is taken up with contractual counselling assessment and discussing the contract.  Any questions about the counselling process are most welcome, although questions are part of the information shared in the first session.  I give a brief overview of my professional ethics that I adhere to while working with my clients.  Confidentiality, GDPR  are subjects discussed in the first session.

My hours are 08:00 - 18:30, Monday to Friday

I am unavailable on bank holidays and weekends.

I take in trainee counsellors. 

Supervision given is for individuals or group work.

Supervision is also a way of safely discussing confidential issues that can otherwise become overwhelming and is an important part of looking after the therapist's emotional well-being in an ethical and non-judgemental environment.

I am a qualified Integrative Supervisor, providing supervision for individual trainee counsellors and groups. I endeavour to provide a collaborative, supportive and intuitive working professional relationship. I have experience in working with both counselling, supervision and other professional areas.

I provide developmental and integrative models in supervision, offering a reflective space to explore experiences, organisational problems, concerns and mainly the process of good practice in the client work. My approach to supervision acknowledges the importance of developing skills, ensuring and understanding the precedence of the client / supervisory relationship including creating an agreement of respect and openness between supervisee and supervisor.

I provide a a supervision agreement to be discussed, moulded and concluded by the supervisee and myself.

The first session is about your clients and any confidential information about yourself, if this is what you would like to share.

The full fee is due in the first session.

I hold a Diploma in Integrative Supervision through The Grove in London. I am a BSc (Hons) Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, a member of ACC accredited, BACP and UKCP accredited. I have my own private practice and have worked with both adults and adolescents in a range of issues, I am experienced in: anxiety, anger, bereavement, depression low self-esteem, relationship fragmentation, trauma, work related and stress. I provide space for you to reflect on your work and explore the process of the therapeutic relationship, to ensure you are competent in your practice with clients. I offer supervision to counsellors and other professionals, group, as well as individual supervision.