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.

Our work together will be centred on exploring all that makes you the person you are; the relationship that you have with yourself as well as the world around you. This may involve looking at your self image, self esteem, the nature of the relationships you have and how the world around impacts upon you to shape your thoughts, behaviours, emotions as well as how you see yourself. 

I will support you to navigate and negotiate the obstacles that you are experiencing to help you develop the tools and techniques to improve your confidence and esteem, to have a better image of yourself and build relationships that you find supportive and nurturing.

The work that we do together will be built upon having courage and confidence to bring about meaningful change that allows you to be the best version of yourself.

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

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 believe that the way you see and experience the world is central to ensure the change you want. I hold a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling as well as a Level 6 Certificate for supervision of therapeutic counselling. I've worked with a variety of clients as a counsellor and a supervisor whilst also previously been a teacher.

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 am a Person-Centred Counsellor and Counselling Supervisor who works with supervisees to actualise their potential. I aim to support you in being a safe, ethical practitioner who work in the best interests of your clients. 

I utilise the person-centred approach as a relational foundation to support professional development and growth with supervision. I aim to hold a reflective, developmental space that encourages you to develop autonomy and agency as a practitioner. This is underpinned by shaping practice and reflection with the  Seven-Eyed Model, Carroll's Seven Tasks of Supervision, alongside the CLEAR model.

I aim to support fellow counsellors at all stages of the personal and professional development. I do have an interest in working with trainees as they start their professional journey and bolster their initial training.

I have an interest in working with supervisees who are from the South Asian and Black Communities or supervisees who work with these groups to develop awareness of cultural humility. 

I offer the opportunity to experience supervision on an individual basis and also in a group setting.

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. This combines with the use of 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 hope to foster a supervision process that encourages growth, reflection and encourages you to be a practitioner with an ethical, collaborative and client-centred practice. I am to offer collegiate support that offers challenge to encourage growth and development with the potential to be an independent, autonomous practitioner.

I offer the benefit of clinical practice that has been developed and gained from having worked with a variety of client groups and client concerns. I have worked with the third sector, EAP's and training organisations to gain a valuable insight, knowledge and awareness of short, medium and long term work across face to face, online and telephone counselling.

I have an interest in working with supervisees who are from the South Asian and Black Communities  or supervisees who work with these groups to develop awareness of cultural humility.

During the initial session, this is an opportunity to determine whether we are the best fit for one another. This is an opportunity for us both to ask questions of one another and determine if an effective supervisory relationship can be built  for onward development.

In this session, we can discuss your experience of being a counsellor, what you would like to gain from supervision and what onward professional and personal development looks likes for you. This was would be a spring-board for onward, reflective and collegiate development. 

The initial session would also consider your level of training, i.e. whether you are a trainee or fully qualified, as well as other clinical experience to ensure that supervision follows a road map that matches your vision of onward personal and professional development. There would be collaborative and collegiate discussion as to how the supervisory relationship might be formed and built.

Initial sessions are 50 minutes in length and the fee for the initial session is £30. The initial session can be face to face, online or via telephone.

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.