Head of Therapy
Placement Counsellor
Placement Counsellor
Placement Counsellor
Sportfit is looking for dynamic individuals seeking a career working with children and young people. They should be resilient, nurturing in nature, dynamic and active, and enjoy working as part of a close-knit team who are committed to providing each young person with a safe and supportive environment where their needs are put first.
Drawing from the work of Carl Rogers -The Theory of Personality, and Dr Stephen Porges – The Poly Vagal Theory; the Talkfit Team offer a calming, non-judgemental approach to therapeutic interactions.
Understanding what dysregulates and hinders a client from living their life the way they would like to, is the mission of our practice.
Our hope is to hear and connect with clients in a way that calms the nervous system; offering space for personal enlightenment and understanding through promotion of personal agency and will to feel connected with themselves and others.
We work with young people who access Sportfit Support Services through either residential support or education. Offering an original bespoke approach to each session, tailored to the young person’s needs at that time.
Staff are provided with a confidential, reflective space to aid their own processes whilst working in an environment that may be hard to quantify or predict. In addition, regular clinical supervision is offered to help aid understanding of behaviours that may challenge the understanding of our nervous systems own interpretation of safety.
We offer a limited number of sessions for the community. Offering those living within the area access to low-cost counselling. Any income received from this area of our work is used to offer counselling to young people leaving the care system.
We offer accommodation to young adults with complex behavioural and emotional needs, who are presently in crisis.
Situated in the New Forest, Lotus House supports young people in a safe, nurturing environment.
Tailored education programmes for young people who are at a point in their lives where a more personalised approach is needed.
I believe that our actions are words and that through our behaviours, we are communicating a message. To hear this message, I put the individual at the centre of their own therapy, reducing toxic emotions such as fear, threat, and shame. I believe this is the gateway to communication and feeling truly heard.
My counselling work in substance misuse started when I first encountered young people who were at the beginning of their drug or alcohol usage. I have witnessed the devastating effects caused to client’s and their families by substance misuse and have been part of the rehabilitation procedure which involved CAMHs, the Early Intervention Psychosis team and Social Workers.
The Person-Centred approach creates a feeling of safety and trust within the therapeutic relationship. I am committed to ensuring that I hold a non-judgemental space for dialogue, where thoughts, feelings and emotions may be explored without fear of being directed onto a path which does not make personal sense.
My name is Kate, and I am currently studying at City College Southampton for a BA Hons in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I feel passionate about the Person-Centred approach, I feel it is so important to have a trusted, confidential space to explore together what is happening in a person’s world. Sometimes being truly listened to, can be the first step along the path to unravelling anything that may be troubling a person.
Hi, I am Wendy.
With a strong desire to help make a difference in the lives of others, I felt encouraged to enter the field of counselling where I was immediately drawn to Carl Roger’s ‘Person-Centred Approach.’ I am studying for a BA(Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling & Psychotherapy at City College in Southampton.
I trust with the desired environment and a warm understanding and acceptance, a person will feel free to explore experiences, at their own pace, to discover a more satisfying way of being. I believe we all have the necessary tools within ourselves to work towards solving our own problems.
Through relationships and in society, we can become disconnected from ourselves, being made to feel isolated or not good enough. In the therapeutic relationship, I feel this damage can be reversed and the results transformative.
My name is Grant, and I am a Person-Centred Therapist. I am also a dad, Husband, Writer, ex ‘Corporate Suit,’ Skier, Camper Van lover and Egalitarian. I have been many things over the last 50 years, and I believe that these experiences have helped to shape me and led me to the Humanist approach to psychotherapy and in particular the work of Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach.
I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and I am studying a BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) accredited BA (Hons) degree course in Person-Centred counselling and psychotherapy.
Through my own experience I have witnessed the simple power of someone being truly heard and accepted for who they are within a safe environment. It is here that change can happen and we can unburden ourselves from the views and opinions of others and start to discover our true selves – Wonderful, Unique and Amazing Human beings. For me, the Person-Centred Approach is not a skill you learn or something that you teach, but an immersive way of being and living the best life.
