Lisa Finch

I have over 20 years experience of working with adults and young people. I am a Humanistic Integrative Counsellor, with a down to earth approach.  I provide short term and long term counselling and psychotherapy, underpinned with extensive experience and training in relationships, parenting, mental health, trauma and addiction. 

I work both online via Google Meet and face to face. 

I am a professionally qualified Humanistic Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist,  and qualified in 2002. I gained CPCAB Accreditation in 2016 and hold CPCAB Level 5 certification in Young People's Counselling (2018), unpinning my work with individuals aged 14 and above. Additionally, I earned an Accredited AFT Foundation Certificate in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in 2009. I am also a CPCAB Level 6 qualified Supervisor. (See Supervisor's Profile.) Furthermore, I hold a Level 2 qualification in Understanding Autism.

With over 20 years of extensive experience, I specialise in supporting clients in navigating personal challenges, relationships, and responsibilities. My practice encompasses a diverse range of client groups, including adults (individuals, couples, and parents) as well as young people. I have also undertaken advanced training focused on working with older adults experiencing depression.

Throughout my career, I have participated in numerous specialized training programs addressing topics such as addictions, attachment theory, child development, bereavement, and mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and abuse. I have experience in helping clients managing symptomatic effects such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, dissociation, and chronic fatigue syndromes. 

I have a deep interest in Internal Family Systems (as conceptualized by Richard Schwartz) and am passionate about exploring the inner relationships individuals cultivate with themselves.

In the first session, I will take your contact details and go through the confidentiality agreement and contract. 

I will then use an assessment questionnaire to ascertain some background information, your current situation and concerns. 

Together we will agree an action plan that will give us a general direction for your therapy to begin. 

We will review and refine this as we work together. 

I qualified as a BACP Level 6 Supervisor in 2012. With an Integrative Humanistic approach, and over 20 years extensive counselling experience in working with adults,  young people and for the last 10 years with couples, I can provide a safe space to support, you either face to face or online.

Underpinned with supervision models Inskipp and Proctors’ Tasks of Supervision Model: Normative, Formative and Restorative and Hawkins and Shohets’ 7 Eyed Supervision Model: Focus on the client, interventions, relationship, therapist process, supervisory relationship, supervisor process and wider context, we can reflect on the multi-dimensional levels of your diverse client work; process ethical dilemmas; ensure safe-guarding is in place; and identify developmental needs for your professional and personal self, enabling optimum well-being for both you and your clients.

​Being a counsellor, a trainee counsellor, supervisor, line manager, carer, teacher, social worker, foster carer, advisor, therapist, mentor or youth worker etc. you are working for the welfare of others, and YOU are the ‘instrument’ of your trade. To the clientele the relationship is what enables the desired outcomes and growth to take place. 

Engage with freshfocus as part of professional integrity and self-care routine. 

​Other areas:

Understand your empathic connections - transference and counter-transference

Working with diversity and neurodiversity 

Working with self-awareness and integrity

Understand and work with your energy, intuition and insight

Working with trauma and neuroscience

Work mindfully with Internal Family Systems

Work with creative intervention 

Self-care

Supervision of supervision

Optimise your professional presence and development

Prior to the first supervision session, I invite you to a brief meeting, either a face to face or online, to enable  us to see if we feel comfortable with one another, discuss the contract and for you to ask any questions, to ensure that you will  get the service you need. 

If you then wish to continue I will ask you to complete an initial questionnaire. This is aimed to gain understanding of your theoretical orientation, qualification, and your hopes, expectations and fears in approaching and engaging in supervision.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Warm wishes,

Lisa