Welcome to Louise Mackinney Psychotherapy I am a BACP senior accredited counsellor, a senior accredited supervisor of individuals and groups and a UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor. Having undertaken training in humanistic, psychodynamic and CBT models, I hold an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy and am an accredited EMDR consultant.
In practice this means that I can draw from a range of trainings and differing modalities in order to plan the best way to work with you. I work with adults, children, couples and groups.
Counselling I have in excess of 20 years experience and have worked in this time with many different presenting issues including depression, anxiety, phobias, trauma, abuse, dissociation, self-injury, eating problems, addictions, sexuality, personality disorders and other mental health issues.
I also provide therapy for students on various counselling and psychotherapy training programmes, and can work both long and short-term - whichever seems most suitable for your particular situation.
Sometimes I work with people with "just talking", but sometimes we use more active methods, with exercises or various techniques. I practice EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) which uses bilateral stimulation to work with traumatic memories, pain, abuse, phobias and addictions. Current fees are 65 per 50 minute session, with some concessions available.
Supervision I am a BACP senior accredited supervisor of individuals and groups and hold a Diploma in Supervision from Cascade. Currently I provide supervision for a number of varied professionals, including schools counsellors, NHS professionals and counsellors working with domestic abuse, students and people in private practice. Current fees are 65 per session.
Training CPD courses are available for counsellors and psychotherapists (see separate page). I also offer tailor-made training programmes for organisations such as the NHS (CHATS), Action for Children, Relate, East Kent Rape Line, The Rising Sun Domestic Violence Project and Canterbury Community Counselling Service.
Please contact me if you are interested in training for your organisation. I can offer training in Trauma, Dissociation, Eating Disorders, Working with Children, Fragile Self-process, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Client Assessment, Working with Dreams, Therapeutic Storytelling, Anger and Rage, Integration, Understanding the Brain, Attachment, Working with Depression, Working with Anxiety, Working with OCD and Transference and Countertransference.
Would you like to be in a Dream Group? I am interested in starting a group (maximum 4 people) to work on your dreams in some of the ways we will have started to explore on the dreams workshop, and perhaps some other ways too! I would expect the group to meet once a month, favoured times for me are Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, but let me know if you would like to attend and need another time.
Initially, I would facilitate the group but after say, six sessions it could begin to meet as a peer group. Cost probably about 40 per person.
I think being in a dream group is a very exciting thing and would really like to facilitate a group.
If you are interested, call me on 01227 713118 or send an email using my contact form and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
