Beni Manglano

I am available Monday to Wednesday evenings

All day Thursday and Friday afternoon.

Exceptionally, from the 10th to the 29th of May, I’ll only be available in the evenings from 6 pm.

Welcome to my profile. My name is Beni and I am a BACP registered counsellor working both in English and Spanish.

I offer a space for your voice to be heard. It is important to me that you feel listened to and understood. I am a warm, empathic and approachable therapist and will accept you for who you are and respect you fully. This is a safe space, free of judgement, where you will reconnect with yourself or even become yourself, finally. We will work collaboratively to build a trusting and meaningful relationship where your needs and best interests will be at the heart of our work. I develop strong relationships with my clients and know that the quality of that relationship is key to the healing process.

I am deeply empathic, and no emotion is too big in our space; I can contain you and hold you, so you feel safe to keep trusting in our process. However, I also believe that, sometimes, as well as a strong support, gentle challenging is needed to bring about change.

We will start where you are at. This could be current problems and anxieties, or lasting pain resulting from past experiences. Together, we will explore these thoughts and feelings and go as deep and as far back as you need to process them. I’ll be with you every step of the way. I believe you deserve to live a full life by tapping into your inner resources instead of being hampered by emotional pain.

I have worked with childhood emotional neglect, fear of abandonment, poor self-esteem, lack of self-belief, family dynamics, mothers-daughters relationships, new mums’ emotional difficulties, parenting, narcissistic partners/parents, work related anxiety, LGBTQ, health issues and bereavement.

I enjoy working with a client base who are diverse both in terms of their difficulties and their cultures. I myself was born in France to Spanish parents, and have lived in the UK for the last 30 years. I am flexible and adaptable and thrive in diversity. I also understand what being uprooted and transplanted in another country and culture feels like. I am familiar with the difficulty of adapting and finding a place in a new society, with a new language and new cultural values. I have worked with clients dealing with issues of belonging and identity.

I had an integrative training, but I endeavour to keep developing my skills and knowledge of other approaches. To that effect, I regularly attend online workshops and webinars and read extensively to maintain a high standard of practice.

Training so far:

Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

Foundation Certificate in Bereavement Counselling.

Level 2 Certificate in Awareness of Mental Health Problems

Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Children and Young People's Mental Health

 Certificate in Safeguarding Adults

 Certificate in Safeguarding Children

Once you contact me by phone or by email, we will arrange to meet online for our first session. 

This first meeting will be an opportunity for you to say what brings you to therapy and what you hope to get from it. This will help us identifying some goals. I will ask you some questions, but we won’t go through a very long assessment, I prefer to get to know you in your own time, as our work together progresses. 

If we agree we would like to work together, we can then discuss place and time of the sessions, cancellation policy, etc.