CHARLIE WARD THERAPY
It is with great pleasure we get to announce that we have collaborated with Charlie Ward of Charlie Ward Therapy to provide you with her counselling services.
Charlie is fully qualified Relational Counsellor (BACP, Level 6), who has completed 3 years psychotherapy training with the Welsh Psychotherapy Institute (WPI) and is a registered member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).
Charlie has 4 years experience as a practitioner, both on placement at Merthyr MIND and in private practice.
Charlie Ward Therapy
Telephone: 07838 250 749
Email: charliewardtherapy@gmail.com
Website: https://www.charliewardtherapy.com/
Costs & Availability
Counselling
Sessions last 1 hour and cost £60, meeting weekly or fortnightly.
I have some slots available at lower rates.
When & Where:
Monday: 10am-1pm online | 6pm-8pm at Castle Street, Hay
Tuesday: 9am-5pm at Steeple House, Brecon
Wednesday: 9am-5pm at Steeple House, Brecon
Thursday: 2pm-8pm online
Friday: 8am-5.30pm at Castle Street, Hay
I recommend meeting weekly for at least the first 10 sessions. This helps to establish a strong working connection where you can start to experience the benefits. Once we are established, and depending on need, we can continue at this frequency or move to fortnightly.
Services Offered
Charlie offers a variety of services which includes:
Counselling
Counselling is where you get to speak about your thoughts and feelings to someone who doesn’t judge you.
Counselling is an opportunity to face complicated or troubling feelings in the hope of gaining greater understanding of them and being able to manage them more effectively.
Counselling offers the possibility of getting to know yourself better, to make sense of thought and relationship patterns and ways of acting in the hope of shifting and changing if you wish to.
Life Story Work
Life Story Work is different to counselling. I use my skills as a counsellor and the therapeutic model of dialogue to capture your life story in dialogue form.
This is usually 10 hour long sessions recorded and written up. For adults doing Life Story it is about 50-60,000 words and includes pictures and photographs. For children and young people the word count can be a lot less and may include more pictures/photos.
We start by scoping out who and what the project is for. We look at the key people, places and themes and usually work chronologically.
The Maternity Project
Charlie runs The Maternity Project especially for mothers-to-be, new and established mothers. I use 'reflective practice' - a process of thinking about, adapting to and learning from things as they happen and after they happen - as the method to structure our sessions. Starting in the latter stages of the pregnancy, we look at nesting and anticipation and reflect on your experiences with pregnancy. Nausea? Rage? Joy? Confusion? What have you been experiencing? We look at your birth plan. Who will accompany you during labour and birth?
Later sessions address labour and birth. How was it? What about the pain? Can you describe it? Did things go to plan? Was it complicated? Was it traumatic?
We consider your wellbeing throughout, how are you feeling? What are your concerns, wishes and fears? How are you coping? We are proactive about considering and signposting to additional support needed, for instance with antenatal and postnatal depression. We consider the health of the growing life within. Are there risk factors? Later sessions consider the many aspects of adapting to motherhood; routines, feeding, meeting other new mothers/parents. There are also sessions that focus on anticipating a return to work.
Teens
Charlie has worked with teenagers, teens, young people, youths or adolescents, since starting work as a therapist four years ago and with Powys Youth Justice Service (YJS) as a volunteer since 2007.