Crissy Duff

I take an integrative relational approach to working with clients with a particular interest in Gestalt therapy and I incorporate a creative and mindfulness approach where appropriate and helpful. As well as working with adults I also have extensive experience of counselling children and adolescents and specialise in the expressive arts and play therapy. I also work with couples and families, offering support with partner and parent-child relationships, parenting issues, antenatal and postnatal depression and menopause. I run small therapy groups for individuals seeking support for specific issues e.g. menopause or separation and divorce. I am a qualified supervisor working with therapists and other health and education professionals, on a one to one basis and within groups both privately and within organisations. 

I am currently working exclusively in private practice from my comfortable ground floor home based room. Online sessions take place via Zoom. I was previously Clinical and Practice Manager Help Counselling a charity and trainee placement, based in Notting Hill, working there between 2018 and 2021 and I have also counselled children in schools; worked as a mental health mentor at Kingston University and counselled adult clients within the NHS and Local Government Occupational Health Services.

I am happy to be contacted by phone or email to discuss what you are looking for from counselling and how I may be able to help. Following from this, we may arrange an initial consultation session which will give us the opportunity to get to know each other better and to consider whether therapy with me would be the best way forward for you. This assessment session lasts 50 minutes and currently takes place online via Zoom. 

As a supervisor I work with qualified counsellors and those still in training, both one to one and in groups. I also offer supervision within organisations, schools and the helping professions. Whilst Clinical Manager for the charity Help Counselling in Notting Hill I regularly supervised groups of trainee therapists from a wide range of approaches including Gestalt, Transpersonal, Person Centred, Psychodynamic and Transactional Analysis. I myself trained with The Centre for Supervision and Team Development (CSTD London). The core of this training is the Seven Eyed Model which was developed with an aim to equip supervisors to help their supervisees to experience work as "a place of purpose, achievement, self-worth, service, relationship, and creativity."

I work from a ground floor room in a comfortable home environment with good transport links and unrestricted parking.  Online sessions and initial assessments and consultations take place via Zoom.

A first supervision session is a chance for us to get to know each other and to explore how we both work and what you hope to gain from the supervisor/supervisee relationship.