New Couples Therapists at Lacap

Extract: "The London Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is pleased to welcome Anando Emryss and Sara Breinlinger as Associate Members......demand for this service is increasing. This is particularly in the current climate with worries about work and redundancy starting to affect the cohesion of couples and families....the increasing amounts of stress, anger and unfulfilled expectations that impact on our relationships and on our sexual lives....Lacap has benchmarked its fees for Couples Counselling against those of Relate..."

Psychotherapy & Counselling: Government Regulation!

Extract: "....the history of this problem is that the existing regulatory bodies, in particular the BACP, have been dumbing down and atrophying the need or interest in ‘what is a personal psychotherapy?’ – taking it out of the equation, almost, for ‘what is a counsellor or psychotherapist?’ Do you want to meet with someone who has had so little interest is ‘what is psychotherapy?’ that they have barely done it themselves?.....If many psychotherapists and counsellors have undertaken a training in order to ‘self-cure’ or to ‘put their pathology to work’ (I want to help the world…. etc.), then the ‘professionalization’  of the profession of counselling and psychotherapy looks like it might permit the underlying, irrational, motives to carry on unchallenged or unexplored.....Or is there something to be said for the London psychotherapist as a little more of a renaissance man?

Petition opposing State Regulation of Psychotherapy

Extract: Simona Revelli writes: "to alert you to an international petition opposing the state regulation
of talking therapies in the UK. If you support this struggle, please sign and circulate as broadly as possible (to friends, colleagues and organisations world-wide) the following: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Psyreg/
You can read arguments against state regulation on the petition's statement."

Our Counsellors & Psychotherapists - who you are seeing

Extract: "Not all of our therapists take first meetings (psychotherapy & counselling assessments). So, you are only meeting with veteran & fully qualified therapists. The counsellor or psychotherapist with whom you are having that assessment, might not be the therapist that you carry on seeing. Assessment is about the psychotherapist understanding in quite some detail about what is bringing you along. The counsellor then discusses the various treatment model options....."
 

• "Counselling & psychotherapy assessment at lacap..."
• "Before going to meet your counsellor or psychotherapist..."
• "First meetings - what to ask..."
• "Points to ponder for after the first meeting..."
• "Choosing a therapist in London: A note of caution..."

Our ethos at Lacap

Extract:
Those of us who were working in London as counsellors or psychotherapists in the NHS and charitable agencies realised something had gone wrong! The auditors and accountants had won...."
"The second good idea is historical. London Psychotherapy is said to be ..."
"Everything in the NHS and the charities counselling and psychotherapy work is now about protecting yourself against litigation...."
"Counselling imperatives are not about making money!..."
"We do not have to sacrifice counselling and psychotherapy to ‘short-termist’ outcomes...."
"Psychotherapists can offer frequencies commensurate with the difficulties...."
"Access to counselling & psychotherapy services in London for those in unwaged or reduced income...."
"Counselling services are precisely located in Aldgate, London. Where we are is the dividing line street ...geography permits a wide access to counselling & psychotherapy services in London"

Choosing a Psychotherapist, Counsellor or Counselling Psychologist in London!

Extract: "Counselling & Psychotherapy: it's not just people who give you advice. Therapy is not simple problem-solving. Psychotherapy produces change in your life, but not primarily because of advice you get from the psychotherapist.

Counselling research has shown that the technique the psychotherapist or counselor uses is not as important as the relationship you build together. As counselling  progresses, you will actually use the relationship between you and your psychotherapist as a workspace, to resolve problems. Because the relationship with the therapist is so essential..."
 

• "The best referrals are..."
• "When you get the psychotherapy referral..."
• "The Initial Consultation..."
• "Toward the second half of the psychotherapy session...."
• "What is a normal counselling fee?...."

Psychotherapy referrals for GP's in London

Extract: Guidelines exist for use of antidepressants and psychotherapy or counselling for mild to moderate depression, although psychotherapy needs effective policy implementation in clinical practice to maximise its impact for patients. This is where referral over to The London Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy can be effective: at the psychotherapy assessment the clinician can decide with the patient the nature of the psychological intervention....
 

• Psychotherapy & Counselling Services referral information
• Indications for Psychotherapy & Counselling.
• Evaluation of Psychotherapy & Counselling.

Counselling & psychotherapy: we recommend these reads!

Counselling and psychotherapy: a consumer's guide: Windy Dryden & Colin Feltham
"A guide to the maze of considerations in the choice of therapists and..."
Four approaches to counselling and psychotherapy: Windy Dryden et al
"...the development of counselling and psychotherapy & examines the relationship..."
On becoming a psychotherapist: edited by Windy Dryden and Laurence Spurling
"....how client and patient encounters have modified their psychotherapy work..."
Am I Crazy, Or is it My Shrink? Larry E. Beutler et al
"....because psychotherapies don't come with warning labels...."
 

LACAP launches a Hand-Edited UK Psychotherapist & Counsellor Directory

Extract: LACAP was receiving enquiries for counselling and psychotherapy services every day from across the UK. The way that LACAP is set up, with a not-for-profit and low-fee capacity, is not readily found elsewhere. We decided to have a closer look at what private therapy and counselling resources there are in the metropolitan areas in the UK.”

LACAP Publishes Counselling & Psychotherapy News by RSS Feed

Lacap today created its news and information page by linking to RSS feeds.
News from Psych.Central, Psychotherapy.Arena, News.Medical.Net & others.