​Why Counselling?

People think about counselling for all sorts of reasons:

• struggling with anxiety or depression
• feeling overwhelmed or stressed about work, study or life in general 
• feeling lonely or hurt
• being bullied or harassed
• worried about your own anger or violence
• relationship and family issues
• worries about sex or sexuality
• concerns about your eating and drinking
• body issues
• grief, loss and bereavement​
• a search for meaning and the purpose of life
• fear of ageing, including the menopause, illness and your own death
• feeling suicidal, despairing and hopeless

These feelings may be a response to something that has happened and be unfamiliar or frightening, counselling can support us in a crisis and through distressing and difficult times. In a safe environment feelings can be expressed and explored with kindness and compassion. Trauma can be explored sensitively and psychological wounds can be soothed. 

We might have been holding down feelings for a long time but they keeping reappearing. Counselling can bring unconscious thoughts into awareness as we discover negative patterns that keep repeating in our lives.

We can begin to understand the meanings we have given to life events and look at the limits we have imposed on ourselves, counsellor and client can work together to find more freedom and acceptance.  

​With a background in the creative arts, research and education, I work with blocks in creativity and offer support for realising arts and writing projects. ​I also offer focussed sessions on difficulties completing academic projects. 

I approach each client as an individual and between us we seek out the way we want to work together, which might be short-term or open ended but it will always be a collaboration. ​

​My own experience of therapy in times of crisis and loss has been a significant influence on the way I work with clients.

I work in Hove, BN3 from quiet, comfortable rooms easily accessible by public transport. 
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I am a member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and work under their code of ethics. All my work is supervised by a senior UKCP
 supervisor. 

Counselling Training 
Certificate in The Couple Relationship Tavistock Relations/Wessex Counselling
MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy, 
​University of Roehampton, accredited by the UPCA and UKCP.


Previous qualifications
BA, MA, PhD 
FHEA Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 
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Taking the first steps toward counselling can be nerve wracking. I welcome an initial telephone conversation for you to ask any questions. Please text me on 07516 668603, email me at contact@angelarogers.net or complete the form below to arrange a phone conversation. 

Charges 
£60 per 50 minute session
Reduced fees are available for students. 

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