
Susan Osborne
Registered Member MBACP (Accredited)
Contact information
- Phone number
- 07926833684
Features
- Flexible hours available
- Concessionary rates
Availability
I have availability for new clients.
I offer sessions Monday to Thursday mornings 9.00 - 1.00. I can also an evening meeting 5-6 on these days.
About me and my therapy practice
I have been helping people to find their own solutions and thrive in their lives for 13 years now. I work together with my clients to build an open and honest working relationship. This is so we can understand what your life looks like from your point of view and hold the light up to your own creative wisdom. Counselling is more than just talking. When helpful, I adopt a creative approach, offering clients the opportunity to work with poetry, their own writing, or with objects from the natural world.
As therapy progresses, I find clients start to experiment, trying out new ideas and practices. My hope is that, by the end of our work together, they become their own counsellors , integrating their new understanding and finding a renewed appetite for life.
I now work mostly via Zoom, telephone or email. However I also offer face-to-face counselling in central Ely.
Practice description
I see therapy as a process of unfolding self-diagnosis. So, I will invite you to talk about the issues which are troubling you. Listening carefully, I will try to ask helpful questions so we can get a clearer understanding of the challenges you face. The sessions are designed to get you thinking. My experience is that, as the weeks go by, you can uncover strengths and possibilities. These were often there with you already but perhaps you hadn’t seen them.
Through this practice of patient exploration, you will discover new resources in yourself. You will be in a better position to make changes. Either in terms of what you do, or how you look at things.
Part of therapy is helping people to shine the light on what they are already doing to help themselves. It is also about helping them to find new helping strategies or practices. For example, depending on the client, I find it can be helpful to offer poems which relate to their experience, or to develop with them a practice of reflective writing; or to encourage them in a habit of noticing and attending to the natural world.
My first session
Before we meet, I will send you a copy of my client/counsellor agreement and my data protection statement. This is so you have some information before we start work together, and it forms starting point for our first conversation about how we will work together.
We begin by finding out what you are hoping to address in your therapy. What would you like to change in your life? What is causing you difficulty or disturbing your thoughts? We will talk a little bit about any previous experiences of counselling, and what you found helpful (or unhelpful). Importantly, we will talk also about confidentiality, contact arrangements, frequency of meeting and fees. I will explain that I hold to the BACP's framework for ethical practice.
Continuing, we will look at how the issue you are bringing fits into your wider life and past history and current relationships. We consider any self-care practices or helping strategies you might already already have tried.
If it is helpful, we talk about your spirituality and how it relates to the issue you are bringing.
I explain a little how talking therapy works. I introduce the possibility of working creatively with your own writing, or with poetry and we decide whether or not you like the sound of that! Throughout, we respect your priorities.
We end with a little review: we consider briefly our work together during this first session and ask ourselves whether we felt comfortable working together? Could we imagine doing some good work together? If so, we arrange to meet again.
What I can help with
Abuse, Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Cancer, Child related issues, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Cultural issues, Depression, Disability, Health related issues, Identity issues, Loss, Men's issues, Post-traumatic stress, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Sexual identity, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Person centred
Clients I work with
Adults, Groups, Older adults, Organisations
How I deliver therapy
Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone therapy, Time-limited
Languages spoken
French
Features
- Flexible hours available
- Concessionary rates
Availability
I currently have availability for new clients.
I offer sessions Monday to Thursday 9.00 - 1.00 and 5.30 -7.
About me and my therapy practice
I offer supervision in the form of planned, regular and boundaried conversations according to your needs providing:
Space to bring your unanswered questions and talk frankly about your work.
Restoring space to address your growing edges, and your own needs as a practitioner.
Growing space for garnering psychological insight and developing better practice.
Challenging space where you can consider safeguarding and the ethical dimension of your work.
Celebratory space where you can acknowledge your achievements.
Reflective space where you can consider your work and your vocation within the context of your faith or spiritual understanding.
Playful space where you can work creatively and access your hidden wisdom.
Safe space defined by an agreed confidentiality contract.
I offer face-to-face sessions in Ramsey. I also offer supervision via Zoom, telephone or email.
Practice description
'Out beyond right-doing and wrong-doing ... I'll meet you there' (Rumi).
I aim to build supervisory relationships where I can work respectfully and non-judgementally,in a spirit of collaberation, with those who come to me for hep. I work from a person-centred base, so that I work with colleagues to facilitate a process of insight and reflection on their work. Where helpful, I offer my own insights and refer clients to books, ideas and research which they might find helpful. Supervisees report that they have found our sessions both energising and cathartic.
As with counselling, supervision is available indoors in a comfortable room, or outdoors, in a beautiful space where we can work confidentially and without interruption.
My first session
In preparation for our first session, I email my supervision agreement, my data protection statement and my on-line working statement. This gives potential supervisees some information which will form the basis of our first contracting conversation.
Firstly, we will talk over the supervisee's issues and priorities for supervision. Then we will cover practical issues like confidentiality, contact arrangements, frequency of meeting and costs. We will check for any overlapping relationships and consider any possible impact on our work. I will explain what it means in my practice to work to the BACP Ethical Framework.
Finally I will emphasise my intention to honour the supervisee's trust and always to treat the supervisee with respect as an adult capable of taking responsibility for her/his work.
What I can help with
Abuse, Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Cancer, Child related issues, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Cultural issues, Depression, Disability, Health related issues, Identity issues, Loss, Menopause, Men's issues, Post-traumatic stress, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Brief therapy, Person centred
Clients I work with
Adults, Groups, Older adults, Organisations, Trainees
How I deliver therapy
Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Outdoor therapy, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone therapy, Time-limited
Languages spoken
French