Punam Farmah

Red Maple Counselling offers Face to Face, Telephone and Online Counselling

This service is available Mondays to Fridays between 8am and 8pm.  Mondays and Tuesdays are currently online/telephone only.

Please get in touch for for availability.

Areas of Focus and Experience:

• Relationships: Peer, marital and family
• Life events
• Family challenges
• Discrimination
• Work-related concerns
• Male Mental health
• Clients from the Black, African and South Asian Community
• Parenting
• Infant loss and subsequent pregnancy
• Family and peer conflict
• Substance Misuse
• Survivors of sexual abuse, domestic abuse and violence
• Anxiety, low mood and depression
• Confidence and self-esteem.
• Pain conditions and other health-related concerns.
• Culture and Identity
• Teaching and Education
• Additional learning needs

As a counsellor for Red Maple Counselling, I  offer all clients the  space to explore, overcome and better understand the challenges and concerns that they are experiencing.

Please note that I only work with individuals aged 18+. I do not currently offer couples counselling.

I support clients who have experienced challenging relationships, family conflict, are survivors of domestic violence and abuse, as well individuals who feel they have low confidence, self esteem and challenges with life experiences, relationships and identity. I  am able to offer support to clients who have experienced substance mis-use. Further to this, I  am also able to work with pregnancy, still birth and infant loss.  

I work with culture, identity, parenting, life events as well health-related concerns.   I have significant experience of working in Educational and with students who have additional support needs. 

I offer Face to Face, Telephone and Online Counselling. 

The Red Maple Counselling practice is based at the The Well Health Centre. There is a ground floor room used as well as a basement room, accessible by stairs. 

As a person-centred Counsellor, I aim to work collaboratively with you to ensure that you are the centre of process. This means working safely, ethically and without judgement. As a client, you are offered an experience that is empathetic and individual to your journey.

All clients are offered an initial assessment. These are carried out either via zoom, telephone or face to face.

This is your opportunity to ask questions, see if I am the best fit for you, and to consider whether you want to access Counselling. 

This is a fifty minute session, to explore and understand what might bring you to counselling and reflect upon how you want to use Counselling. 

My workings days are Monday to Friday.

I offer Counselling and Supervision between 8am and 8pm on these days. Monday's and Tuesdays are currently online only. Face to face supervision is offered Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

I have spaces for new supervisees as well as supervisees looking for additional supervision.

I am a Person-Centred Counsellor and Counselling Supervisor who works with clients and supervisees to actualise their potential. I have experience as a counsellor in Private Practice in working with diverse range of clients who bring with them a diverse range of concerns.

In working with counsellors in training and qualified counsellors, I aim support you to be safe, ethical practitioners who work in the best interests of their clients. 

I utilise the person-centred approach as relational foundation to support professional development and growth. 

As a counsellor, my practice is very much Person-Centred and continues to involve to integrate other modalities to ensure a supportive, pragmatic, client-centred focus. I have experience of working with the Integrative Approach as well as teaching trainee counsellors. This equips me with a good understanding of how professional standards are important at all stages of professional and personal development.

My Supervisory way of working uses the Person-Centred approach as a foundation to combine the use of the Seven-Eyed Model, Carroll's Seven Tasks of Supervision alongside the CLEAR model. I use the person-centred approach to build a relational way of working to help you actualise your potential as a practitioner and that of your clients.

My aim is to facilitate a safe, ethical space in Supervision that ensures you gain support, have the opportunity for reflection and feedback whilst developing into the best practitioner you can be.  This means ensuring that you experience supervision as a restorative, formative and normative relational process with a birds eye view over your work.

I have an interest in working with supervisees who are from the South Asian and Black Communities or work with clients these and other under-represented communities. 

During the Initial session, this is an opportunity to determine whether we are the best fit for one another. We can discuss your initial counselling training, the CPD that you may have done,  your practice so far and how  you wish to develop this moving forward.

Initial sessions are 50 minutes in length and the fee is £30. 

Beyond this, the fee will be determined by whether you're a counselling in training or a qualified counsellor. The time length of Supervision will also the vary.