Paige Whiteley

I provide an open and safe place for people to explore acute or historic life events I also provide counselling supervision BSc in counselling & psychotherapy with 9 years post qualifying experience. BACP (Accred) & Psychosexual therapist COSRT. I work in a holistic way offering and discussing with each client the most suitable way of working for them and always looking and willing to adapt therapy to suits the individuals needs. 

I have over 14 years of therapeutic experience of private and organisational integrative counselling, with person centred therapy at my core, and am a member of the BACP (Accredited) and COSRT. I offer therapy with an integrative approach, connecting with your particular needs in order to find and change the limiting beliefs that might be holding you back.

I completed my Diploma in Counselling at Joseph Priestley College qualifying me as a therapist, in 2011. I then returned to education at Leeds Becket University where I gained a BSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2014.

Progressing to a Post Grad Cert in Supervision at UCLAN and more recently I qualified as an EMDR and coaching practitioner.

Additionally, I have a post-grad certificate in Psychosexual therapy.

My early career started with ongoing training alongside 1 academic year of work with children aged 5-11 in a school environment providing 1:1 therapeutic interventions. My work there also included devising and delivering workshops to other staff members within the school environment to help gain and maintain relationships with other piers.

I have 3 years of experience working with mental health issues within an organisation, with clients aged 18+ displaying/presenting issues such as, but not exclusive to:

Trauma

Loss/bereavement

Fertility issues

Relationship issues

Depression/anxiety

Abuse – sexual, emotional and physical

Family problems

I currently have my own private practice which is based in Tingley.

BACP accredited member 

Training

Providing single session therapy

Science of Attachment styles

ACE's Early Trauma 

COSRT Managing Monogamism: Polyamory Aware Therapy Practices

Bereavement, grieve and loss during Covid 19

Shame

Sexual Trauma

Trauma Focused CBT

EMDR and coaching

Sexual Health

COSRT Birth trauma

COSRT The course of the menopause

COSRT working online

COSRT Testosterone Deficiency in Men

Helping children tell their stories

Making endings with children

Attachment theory

Play therapy

Transactional Analysis

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Safeguarding children and adults

The impact of trauma on women's sexual relationship

Paving the way: the adolescent brain

Safeguarding children from abuse by sexual exploitation

Disclosure

Trauma focused CBT

Self harm

Sleep - issues and impacts

Children's emotional wellbeing

Eating disorders

Experience

3 years experience working in  mental health services aged 18+, working with clients experiencing mental health problems working with OCD, abuse, addiction, eating disorders, mental health.

9 years working within a Rape Crisis organisation (2 years with young people aged 14-18), working with victims and family members of people who have been affected by sexual violence.

Almost 2 years work with gambling addiction, working with people and family members who have been affected by gambling addictions.

I have run my own private practice for the past 7 years. 

First session i complete PHQ and GAD scores and IOES if necessary. 

This first session we will address how i can support the client and discuss  the type of therapy and support client desires and allow the client to ask questions they may have.