Ellen Bell

I'm available between Tuesday and Thursday during working hours or early evenings

I've been a counsellor for more than 20 years and I use a wide variety of therapeutic techniques to help people to enjoy better wellbeing and mental health through the challenges life has thrown at them. 

Being a counsellor means listening to you and helping you to find ways to deal with what's going on in your life and coping with the thoughts and feelings that get in the way. 

As your counsellor, my role is to create a safe space for you. I'm here to listen to you and to help you to process what's happened to you and what affects your wellbeing, both in the past and most importantly in the here and now. I'm here to reflect back with you and help you to find ways to have better mental health and to cope with life's challenges. 

Whether it's having a long-term illness or disability, or going through the menopause or other major changes in life, what happens in our bodies can affect our mental health, too. Dealing with these changes is stressful and it affects our relationships and every aspect of our lives. As your counsellor, I can help you to process these things and find coping strategies that work for you.

I can provide you with a free 15-minute first session for us to meet and see if I'm the right counsellor for you. 

I'm available for supervision between Tuesday and Thursday during working hours or early evening.

I'm an integrative counsellor and have worked in the field for over 20 years. I trained as a supervisor with Place2be and use the Proctor model of supervision.

Most of my counselling work has been in schools and agency settings so I've worked with people of all ages from primary school to a clients in a Women's Centre. I have lots of experience of counselling children and young people so especially keen to supervise counsellors working in schools or youth settings.

In my work in schools I specialised in seeing neurodivergent children so I am able to support counsellors with clients who are autistic or have ADHD.

My approach to supervision is to work with you as a colleague: to help you to look after yourself, to look after your clients, and to develop your own career and professional experience in a way that works for you. Supervision is a partnership and I'm here to help you get the best out of yourself and fulfil your potential as a counsellor while also looking out for your wellbeing. I know that being a counsellor is demanding and can be difficult sometimes, so my role is to help guide you through that and to deal with difficult situations with care.

I work remotely so we'd be meeting online.

I'm also trained in using mindfulness techniques and I use them personally, in my counselling practice and with supervisees.

I offer a free 15-minute call for a potential supervisee for us to find out if I'm the right person for you and can provide what you need. If you decide to go ahead, I'll then send you a contract for our future supervision work together.