Metamorphosis Counselling
Online Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Therapy) and Therapeutic Coaching
to Support Your Personal and Professional Transformation
Metamorphosis Counselling
I offer you a trusted, confidential relationship where:
- the focus is on you, your situation and how you feel about it
- you can fully articulate your thoughts and emotions, without being judged
- other perspectives are offered that may challenge your assumptions or limiting beliefs
This enables you to:
- clarify your understanding of your situation
- help you to see the ‘wood for the trees’
- find options to solve your problem/find a way ahead (without being ’advised’ about what to do or directed towards a particular approach/solution)
Psychotherapeutic Counselling
Psychotherapeutic counselling ("therapy") is a way of getting to know yourself at a deeper level and can support you in living life more fully. Many people come to therapy not for a specific reason or difficulty, but to get to know themselves better and become more self-aware.
Therapy also offers a space where you can get support and work through current or past difficulties and traumas. These might include a bereavement, relationship breakdown, childhood abuse or neglect, other traumatic events, coping with a chronic illness, recovering from injury or work stress. Psychotherapeutic counselling can enable you to find peace with what has happened to you and face the future with confidence.
I encourage you to explore your thoughts and feelings about your problems, challenges and future goals at your own pace.
Therapy generally requires a long-term, weekly or twice weekly commitment, but can take place successfully with less frequent sessions.
Skilled Coaching Integration: Therapeutic Coaching
As a dual-qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor and coach, I have the skill to work in both a future, goal-focused way and a present, feelings-focused way, depending on your situation and preference.
Therapeutic coaching combines coaching with psychotherapy techniques to explore past difficulties, repeating patterns and limiting beliefs that may be holding you back from reaching your full personal and professional potential.
Therapeutic coaching usually requires a longer-term, weekly or fortnightly commitment, however it can be carried out in a time-limited or 'ad hoc' session framework.
Safety and Confidentiality
I take confidentiality very seriously and believe that therapeutic work cannot take place unless this is upheld at every level. Confidentiality is essential to building trusting relationships, and I respect your right to privacy. This means that I will not share information from your sessions or any other information I hold about you with any other person, organisation or agency, apart from in truly exceptional circumstances (for example, a risk of immediate harm).
I abide by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) code of ethics, ensuring you are in capable and safe hands. I am a registered member of UKCP. See About UKCP | UKCP
Regular, Affordable, Accessible Sessions
Standard psychotherapeutic counselling/therapeutic coaching sessions are 50 minutes long and usually at the same time each week via video conferencing or phone. I try to accommodate rota patterns and shift changes, but weekly sessions at a regular time is recommended.
I aim to keep sessions affordable, and offer a sliding scale of £55-£70 per session (this is self-assessed, i.e. if you have a higher disposable income, choosing to pay the higher fee enables more low cost spaces to be available).
A few low cost spaces (£40) are limited to those on a low disposable income - please ask at initial enquiry about current availability for these.
As therapeutic coaching sessions can be so helpful in supporting you to thrive in your work, some workplaces are willing to for these to be paid out of a professional development budget.
About Me
Philippa Welsh, Counsellor
Hi, I'm Philippa. I’m dual-qualified as a psychotherapeutic counsellor and coach, and I've been mentoring and coaching since 2017, and working as a counsellor since 2020. I was a counsellor for Cotswold Counselling – a charity in Cirencester – for three years (March 2020 to February 2023), alongside establishing a busy private counselling practice. I was also a volunteer listener for a charity helpline for 6 years prior to this.
I am a Registered Member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), with well over 1000 hours of supervised complex client work. I was awarded my Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling with Distinction, following 4 years' training at Bath Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy (www.bcpc.org.uk). This was a dual accredited BACP and UKCP course, indicating a very high standard of counselling training.
I have worked in the helping professions for over 15 years and also teach, mentor and coach post-graduate professionals in charitable, private and university sectors.
My therapy and coaching approach is informed by humanistic and psychodynamic theories.
Humanistic theory was developed by psychotherapist Carl Rogers in the 1960’s. He believed that in an understanding, supportive and honest relationship with a person-centred counsellor, we will naturally heal, grow and discover our unique potential.
Psychodynamic theory suggests that the way we relate to others in the present is influenced by how our caregivers (e.g. parents, teachers etc.) related to us as children. It is through a supportive and caring relationship with a therapist that we can discover our patterns of relating, develop a new understanding of ourselves, and find new and healthier ways of relating in the outside world.
The Value of Counselling
Counselling can transform lives.
I am trained in psychodynamic therapy. This means that together we can explore your life and behaviour patterns and how these may have stemmed from past experiences - particularly from your developmental/childhood relationships.
This can be especially helpful when exploring relational dynamics - i.e., how you might react and respond to others around you at home or at work. Understanding of your relational patterns in the safety of a healthy, boundaried, confidential relationship can help you to discover new ways to relate in the outside world.
As I am a person-centred, integrative practitioner, I incorporate different approaches to suit your needs and preferences, and it is not always necessary to delve deeply into the past. I am trauma-trained and use a gentle, somatic-based modality for working with trauma. Here, you will be able to tell your story, and feel heard and understood.
Contact
Please contact me: philippa@metamorphosiscounselling.co.uk or fill in the form below to book an initial reduced fee 'discovery' session to see how I could support you.
Contact Me
Please fill in the contact form, or email me directly to enquire about working with me.
I offer a full first online session at a reduced fee of £40.