Counselling at CAAGe
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Counselling at CAAGe
Traditional counselling can feel like victim blaming to someone who has been targeted by a groomer. Victim's reality often feels distorted, and they need time and space to make sense of it, although they may never find an answer to the question 'why?'. But we believe that it's better to help people learn to live with that and to enjoy life after grooming rather than label them BPD, co-dependent or automatically assuming a lack of boundaries.
Of course, for some people this may hold true, but our counsellors are grooming and trauma informed and able to offer you appropriate solutions for your own circumstances.
Our counsellors have experience with grooming that specifically qualifies them to offer support.
Lead counsellor, Counselling Psychologist, Wendy Gregory
Qualifications / Bsc Psychology, first class hons / MSc Counselling Psychology / Two Year diploma equivalent Certificate in Counselling
Experience / 18 years in private practise / eight years running counselling services in schools
Professional Associations / HCPC registered
Fees / Vary. Guideline approx £45 per session, £50 for supervision, £55 per couple
Languages / English
Counselling delivered / online, phone and in person
Location for face to face counselling post COVID - Slough / Windsor, Berkshire
Other / Offers training to counsellors. Relationship specialist.
More about Wendy
CAAGe people - Wendy Gregory, Counselling Psychologist
Contact / thewendyhouse57@gmail.com / T 01753 793680
Integrative counsellor, Preety Sidhu
Qualifications / Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychology, MSc Integrative Counselling
Experience / Four years in Private Practice/ Two years volunteering for local counselling charities (Two years volunteering at MIND Rushden; One year with The Lowdown in Northampton)
Professional Associations / BACP registered (383741)
Fees / Vary. Guideline approx £40-45 per session, £60 per couple
Languages / English / Punjabi / Hindi
Counselling delivered / online, phone and in person
Location for face to face counselling - Outskirts of Northampton / Towcester / Milton Keynes
Other
/ Able to offer a thorough understanding of South Asian culture
/ Both long and short term therapy offered
Contact /
Healing Through Counselling / T 07930 612825
Other sources of counselling support
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Apologies for the delay
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BACP article by Natasha Page talking about how talking therapies can help:
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If have what it takes to offer counselling to adult survivors/victims of grooming, please contact us…..
Must be fully qualified
Minimum of 2 years experience
Prepared to undertake training to help understand adult grooming
No charge to appear as a CAAGe recommended counsellor for at least the first year
Particularly seeking…
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Seeking a Jewish counsellor
CAAGe is conscious that we have no specific support for victims within the Jewish community/communities. This is something that we would specifically like to resolve.
Find out more: HERE
If you are interested, or would like to find out more, please call Claire on +44 (0)7771 817015
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Seeking Muslim Counsellors
Whether Sunni, Shia, and Alawite, any Muslim who has been groomed as an adult should be able to come to CAAGe for help.
We are therefore seeking at very least a male and female counsellor to help Muslim victims/survivors.
Find out more: HERE
To fins out more, please call Claire on +44 (0)7771 817015
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Wider representation of sex/gender/sexuality in our mix of counsellors.
At CAAGe we are conscious that for people who have been groomed life is hard enough. Having someone who explicitly understands their own lived experience may sometimes be appealing (and, it must be said, sometimes the reverse applies - it’s simply about choice.)
We are therefore pro actively seeking counsellors to join us from specific communities.
Read more: HERE
Please note that seeking wider representation on our ‘panel’ of counsellors does not mean that we plan to stereotype our counsellors to work solely with one particular cohort of victim/survivors unless they so choose, rather to offer a wider choice to victim/survivors and increase diversity within CAAGe itself.
We are also happy to refer people to specialist counsellors within other grooming-informed organisations.
Coming soon:
CAAGe is investigating ways to provide paid for counselling;
CAAGe will be introducing a register of grooming aware counsellors.