Paige Whiteley

I have over 15 years of post qualifying experience in private and organisational integrative counselling, with person centred therapy at my core,  and am a member of the BACP (Accredited) and COSRT. I offer therapy with an integrative approach, connecting with your particular needs in order to find and change the limiting beliefs that might be holding you back. My passion and experience is helping people who have experienced trauma to reduce the impact of trauma and to have a healthier life.

I completed my Diploma in Counselling at Joseph Priestley College qualifying me as a therapist, in 2011. I then returned to education at Leeds Becket University where I gained a BSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2014.

Progressing to a Post Grad Cert in Supervision at UCLAN and more recently I qualified as an EMDR and coaching practitioner.

Additionally, I have a post-grad certificate in Psychosexual therapy.

My early career started with ongoing training alongside 1 academic year of work with children aged 5-11 in a school environment providing 1:1 therapeutic interventions. My work there also included devising and delivering workshops to other staff members within the school environment to help gain and maintain relationships with other piers.

I have 3 years of experience working with mental health issues within an organisation, with clients aged 18+ displaying/presenting issues such as, but not exclusive to:

• Trauma
• Loss/bereavement
• Fertility issues
• Relationship issues
• Depression/anxiety
• Abuse
• Family problems

I currently have my own private practice which is based in Tingley.

I have worked at a South Yorkshire based mental health charity, for 12 years, providing support to people aged 18 plus experiencing trauma. During this time i completed additional training in trauma and effected fields

I am committed to providing a safe/confidential environment for all clients encouraging a good therapeutic relationship which allows clients to explore their thoughts and support them through anxiety, depression, trauma and life difficulties.

Training, qualifications & experience

• Post Graduate Certificate in Psychosexual Therapy
• EMDR and coaching from the London EMDR centre training and trauma therapy additionally completed advanced EMDR training
• Post Graduate Certificate in Counselling Supervision
• BSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Diploma Level 4 – Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Level 2 – drug awareness and its applications
• BACP accredited member

Training

• Providing single session therapy
• Science of Attachment styles
• ACE’s Early Trauma
• COSRT Managing Monogamism: Polyamory Aware Therapy Practices
• Bereavement, grieve and loss during Covid 19
• Shame
• Sexual Trauma
• Trauma Focused CBT
• EMDR and coaching
• Sexual Health
• COSRT Birth trauma
• COSRT The course of the menopause
• COSRT working online
• COSRT Testosterone Deficiency in Men
• Helping children tell their stories
• Making endings with children
• Attachment theory
• Play therapy
• Transactional Analysis
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Safeguarding children and adults
• Keeping children safe on the internet
• Becoming culturally competent
• The impact of trauma on women’s sexual relationship
• Paving the way: the adolescent brain
• Safeguarding children from abuse by sexual exploitation
• Disclosure
• Trauma focused CBT
• Self harm
• Young people affected by intimated partner abuse
• Teenage brain development and engaging teens
• Sleep – issues and impacts
• Working with problem gamblers
• Children’s emotional wellbeing
• Eating disorders

Experience

1 year working within a school environment working with children ages 4-11, working with a wide range of issues including loss/bereavement, abuse and confidence/low self-esteem.

3 years experience working in  mental health services aged 18+, working with clients experiencing mental health problems working with OCD, abuse, addiction, eating disorders, mental health.

12 years working within a trauma service providing trauma informed therapeutic intervention to people aged 18+

I have run my own private practice for the past 10 years.