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 Humanistic Integrative Counsellor/Psychotherapist and professionally qualified in 2002. I gained my CPCAB Accreditation in 2016. I work with both adults - individual, couples and parents, and young people. (2018 - CPCAB Level 5 in Young Peoples' Counselling 11+ and 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.)

I have over 20 years extensive experience in working with clients in managing their personal issues, relationships, responsibilities and lives. I have undertaken many training courses, which include areas such as addictions; attachment; child development; bereavement; mental health issues, including anxiety and depression; trauma, abuse and symptomatic effects, such as Post Traumatic Stress, dissociation, and chronic fatigue syndromes, for example. I have also have a Level 2 qualification in Understanding Autism and undertaking a specialised course in working with older adults with depression. 

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 have over 12 years qualified supervision experience. With an Integrative Humanistic approach, 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. As well as developing and maintaining awareness of your professional and personal self, enabling optimum well-being for both you and your clients.

​Whether you are a trainee counsellor, counsellor, supervisor, line manager, carer, teacher, social worker, advisor, therapist, mentor or youth worker etc. working for the welfare of others, 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. 

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Other areas:

Supervision of supervision

Understand your empathic  connections

Working with diversity and integrity

Understand and work with your energy

Working with trauma and neuroscience

Self-care

Optimise your professional presence and development

Work with creative intervention 

Prior to the first supervision session, I invite the supervisee 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.