I am passionate about tailoring Individual Therapy based on you and your needs.
As a Qualified, Accredited and Experienced Therapist, my work is founded on more than a quarter century of training and working as a Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, and Schema Therapist, all of which contribute to the development of a uniquely integrated and individualized approach to psychotherapy.
Over the years, many people have been through therapy with me and fed back that they are profoundly and positively changed, and are aware this has occurred through their own insights and efforts.
Professional Accreditations and Registrations
- Full accreditation held since with BABCP since 2014
- Full accreditation and Registration held with BACP since 2005
Qualifications
- Certification (Accreditation) as Schema Therapist by International Society of Schema Therapists (ISST) (2022)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy from Royal Holloway University (2012)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy from Metanoia Institute/Middlesex University (2011)
- Diploma in Counselling from Middlesex University (2003)
- Certificate in CBT Supervision (2014)
- Certificate in Counselling Supervision (2007)
- Certificate in Couples Counselling (2005)
Ann Booker of Broadview Talk Therapy Services runs a Private Practice Clinic in Chesham and Online proving Schema Therapy, Integrative CBT Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Up to 2019 I worked for ten years in an NHS Talking Therapy Service (IAPT) as a High-Intensity Psychotherapist, providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to adults with the whole range of psychological disorders and problems, as well as more everyday problems such as distress of job loss, housing problems, family problems - in fact, distress of any kind.
I first became interested in becoming a Counsellor many years ago when I was helped by a Counsellor following a traumatic event in my life. I hoped that one day I would be able to train to offer the same kind of help to others in need. In 1999 I saw a part-time course in Counselling advertised at Harrow College of Further Education and applied for it. I have never looked back. I knew from the start that this was the work I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
It was a long haul, a four-year diploma during which I had to continue the 'day job' working as an IT professional. After the first two years of training, I began Counselling in Voluntary Sector Counselling Services, including a Carers Centre, a Women's Centre and MIND.
In 2003 I received my Counselling Diploma and started my private practice while continuing to work in the voluntary sector. Over the years that followed I offered my services to Signpost Young Person's Counselling Service and Hillingdon Action Group for Addiction Management (HAGAM) which forms part of the Hillingdon Drug and Alcohol Service (HDAS). In 2009 I began working at a Primary Care Counselling Service which later became The Talking Therapies Service, where I continued to work till 2019 as a Psychotherapist, mostly practicing CBT.
From 2004 to 2007 I worked for Parent line Plus as a Telephone Counsellor. The in-house training I received in this role has been invaluable in all my work since, providing me with tools and techniques for helping clients to manage difficult family relationship issues.
In 2007 I began my four-year training at the Metanoia Institute - a prestigious centre of excellence for Humanistic Oriented Training Programs. My training was in the MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy. In 2011 I achieved a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy - but did not go on to take the Dissertation and Viva which would have led to the MSc, because I was invited, and chose instead to undertake the one-year intensive IAPT training in High-Intensity CBT.
I developed my role in the NHS Talking Therapies Service becoming a senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and, in addition to my general practice working with individuals experiencing Depression and Anxiety, I developed a service for patients with Autism and Learning disabilities. I also supervised other therapists in the service.
Throughout this time I managed a Private Practice alongside my NHS work, and in 2019 made the change, leaving the service to expand and develop my Private Practice.
Schema Therapy, Psychotherapy, Counselling & CBT in Chesham,
near Amersham, Berkhamsted, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe,
Aylesbury, Great Missenden, Tring, Watford and Rickmansworth.
and Online
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