Mervat Khalaf

I am available at:

Weekdays morning from 08:30 am, afternoon & evening by arrangement.

Counselling can be a difficult decision to take & an overwhelming process for some clients, so it is important to feel I am ready to start the process and make the change and to choose the right counsellor for you.

Therapeutic relationship is the main tool for my work & my aim is to create a welcoming, warm, confidential & non-judgemental space that helps you to feel safe enough to explore your feelings and thoughts. That environment allows for the awareness & change to take place.

I will walk alongside you in your journey & will work with you collaboratively toward your goals from therapy. I will listen to you attentively, empathically and non-judgmental to help you explore your inner worlds.

I am a Registered BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor / Psychotherapist. I use different approaches I have trained with, where you will be the centre of therapy. 

I have experience 12 years working with individuals. 

I work Online (Zoom, Skype)

I work with Individuals in short and long term. I will help you to explore your thoughts and feelings, to understand what is going on your life. I will help you to notice if there is any patterns you go through and stuck in especially in your relationships. Also, I will help you to understand your fears, needs, coping strategies you used to use to protect yourself. I work with many different approaches I learned and experienced working with clients to help and support them.

I do review every 6 sessions to check how you feel about counselling, what you achieved and what you want to achieve.

What I can help you:

· To understand more about your Relationships and the pattern you keep going through

· If you’ve been in Abusive Relationship or abuse through your childhood.

· To understand about feeling Anxious, stressed or Depressed and to understand what is behind it.

· With many different Health related issues

· With Cultural issues

· To understand about how you feel toward your self, your core belief, Self esteem and self confidence.

· With Postnatal depression, abortion and losing a child

· With Work related issues and Redundancy.

· With Developmental, Complex Trauma & PTSD

· To understand Loss and bereavement stages you going through. including dealing with Abortion, Still birth and Neonatal Loss.

Fees: £60/h

Languages: English & Arabic.

Our first session together will be mainly about:                                               

•  To know each other, I would like to know more about you, what made you reach out for counselling & what is your aim from counselling
• We will go through the practicality about sessions, confidentiality and its conditions.
• Will go through what are your expectations from counselling and what is expected from you.
• Also, will go through cancellation policy.

Based on first session we can decide if we are OK to work together.

 I am available weekdays' morning & afternoon,                                      I start early at 08:30 am

Evening appointments are by arrangement. 

I can be available in emergency cases.

What is Supervision?

Supervision is a specialised form of professional mentoring provided for practitioners responsible for undertaking challenging work with people. Supervision is provided to ensure standards, enhance quality, advance learning, stimulate creativity, and support the sustainability and resilience of the work being undertaken (BACP, 2016b).

I work you collaboratively, in a supportive way to enrich your work and to help you more been aware about your own process and your client process.  our relationship as supervisor and supervisee is the main tool to provide a safe place for you to speak about your client that enable you to work ethically and competently with your your clients.  

BACP recommends to have sufficient supervision to allow all aspects of client’s work to be discussed as necessary, and to enable supervisee to develop a constructive relationship with their supervisor.

Recommended Supervision Hours:

Accredited & Senior Accredited Counsellors must have a minimum of 1.5 hs of supervision / month.

For more information about the BACP guidelines on Supervision, Please take a look at this page:

https://www.bacp.co.uk/membership/supervision/

Supervision is one of the main resources that lies at the heart of keeping us safe and efficient as therapists. it is important to find a supervisor who suits you and the way you work.

I have been trained initially as Person-Centred therapist, then I had Professional Development training in Emotionally Focused Therapy, CBT, psychodynamic Core Skills Solution Focused Brief Therapy Core Skills and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy. 

I had Advanced Diploma in Supervision in 2019; also my clients work gave me wide range of experience and understanding.  That has helped me to develop a supervision style will be an aid to your work with your clients.  

My Aims:

Is to help you understand your clients' issues and how to relate practice to theory that would help you to work efficiently with your client.,  and to encourage you for training & CPD.

I will support you in your journey of work, training, professional development and most important is your self-care in a compassionate way. 

Also, I will Support you while facing any Ethical Dilemma. 

Prices

Individual Supervision:  £60/hour (£90/1.5hs)                                        

Our first session will be about contracting and knowing each others and if we are OK to work together.

Training delivered before:

• Vicarious Trauma and Self-Care 
• Attachment Theory
• Bereavement & loss
• Ending in therapy