Hi, I'm Vicky Mould. Welcome.
Life can be tough.
You may be thinking about counselling because you feel unable to cope with or find a way through the challenges you're facing. Or you may feel unsupported or alone in your experience.
What truly matters is that counselling is your decision - it's something you would like to try (or come back to) because you feel it might help.
There are many counsellors out there, but it's important to find one who feels right for you. An initial consultation can help you decide if that's me, and you can contact me for further information.
Counselling specialisms
As an experienced counsellor, I can support you through a range of life challenges, online or over the phone, yet my counselling specialisms include:
- Coping with bereavement: Supporting you through the pain of loss and grief, including sudden death, suicide, child bereavement, or baby loss.
- Healing after domestic abuse: Working together to rebuild your sense of identity, feelings of safety, trust, self-worth, and self-esteem.
- Navigating depression: Helping you relieve troubling thoughts and feelings, gain further insights, and find your sense of wellbeing.
What I can offer you in counselling
Whether we're working online or over the phone, I can offer a space where you are welcome just as you are, and can explore what feels important to you at your pace. This experience can be freeing. It can also help you feel in control of your counselling sessions, whilst still being supported.
As I work in a trauma-informed way, I do offer space to address the mind and body, such as through art, movement, or other means. Creativity is an option, yet if you're interested, let me know.
Our counselling relationship
Practising person-centred therapy, I'll work to establish a relationship with you in which you feel safe, valued, accepted, heard, and understood (I am skilled at this and at helping you feel at ease).
Experiencing this kind of relationship develops awareness, and confidence and trust in yourself. It can help you make the changes you desire and continue with a healthier or more fulfilling life.
Getting started in counselling
If you'd like to take that next step and explore counselling together, you can call or text 07729 193629 or email me through my contact form.
How I approach diversity
My approach to counselling is grounded in respect, including respect for you as a whole person and the differences that may exist between us.
I'll work to understand your world as it is for you, rather than make judgements and assumptions. I am also open to learning from you and educating myself outside of our counselling sessions.
Ongoing self-reflection is integral to my work, yet I have reflected extensively on ethnicity, cultural diversity, neurodiversity (including autism), age, class, gender, disability and sexual orientation.
If you have a diagnosis of any kind, I will be interested in what it means to you. But I won't see the diagnosis as defining who you are as a person or the unique potential that you have within you.
My experience and background
I've experienced counselling myself and felt the benefits in all areas of my life. But this isn't the only reason I chose counselling as a profession. I'm genuinely interested in people and personal development, and have been most of my life.
I have twenty years of experience in support roles, including adult mental health. In the past, I've proudly volunteered for charities such as Mind, Rethink Mental Illness, Cruse, and Women's Aid.
Mental health and wellbeing: I can support people with complex mental health needs. I've worked as a Support Worker on an NHS psychiatric ward and as a Support Time Recovery Worker for Together for Mental Wellbeing.
Domestic abuse recovery: I hold personal and professional insight into the complexities of domestic abuse. Many years ago, I was a Helpline Volunteer for Women's Aid. In my counselling practice, I support survivors of domestic abuse irrespective of gender, ethnicity, or background.
Coping with grief and bereavement: I have supported many people through the confusion and pain of grief and bereavement. I hold specialist training in baby loss, including the sensitive issues surrounding miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal loss. Before qualifying as a counsellor, I was a trained volunteer for Cruse, conducting initial client assessments and providing one-to-one support.
Registration and memberships
As an Accredited Professional Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, I adhere to their Code of Ethical Practice, including regularly consulting with a counselling supervisor.
I hold full professional liability insurance.
I'm a member of The Person-Centred Association. I'm also a member of Creative Counsellors.
Qualifications
- Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling
- Certificate in Crisis Counselling
- Certificate in Grief & Bereavement Counselling
- Certificate of Higher Education in Counselling
- Centra Counselling Level 1.
Continuing professional development (CPD)
I have completed a range of continuing professional development courses, such as:
- Trauma & Somatic Awareness: Relational Trauma (Disorganised Attachment), Trauma Triggers and Flashbacks, Trauma and the Body (Dissociation and Somatisation), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Domestic Violence and PTSD, and Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing.
- Creative Counselling: Journal Therapy, Art Therapy, Creative Grounding and Stabilisation, Working Creatively with Shame, Gratitude, Stress & Burnout, and Creative Mindset for Counsellors.
- Neurodiversity & Well-being: Burnout from an Autistic and ADHD Perspective (The 8 Senses), Autism Awareness, and Mindful Mental Health.
- Loss & Family Support: Pregnancy and Infant Loss, Supporting Parents Through Child Bereavement, and Postnatal Depression Awareness.
- Safety & Crisis Support: Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults.
You can contact me to book an online or phone consultation
If you'd like to explore your needs and see if we're a good fit for counselling, you can call or text 07729 193629 or email me to book a consultation.
