Counselling
Counselling
Alzheimer’s Support offers free counselling sessions for people with dementia and their family carers.
The service can help in a number of ways.
- Supporting through life changes
- Considering how you view relationships
- Dealing with stress
- Coping with setbacks
We offer up to six sessions, usually at the counsellor’s private practices in Trowbridge and Pewsey. However they can arrange to see you in a more convenient location in which case a contribution to travel expenses will be requested.
The counsellors
Gemma Mason
Gemma has specialist knowledge in working with mental health issues, anxiety disorders, caring for a family member and living with a disability.
Prior to setting up in private practice Gemma worked as an Occupational Therapist within the National Health Service and with the following client groups:
- Dementia and psychiatry of old age
- Work rehabilitation with adults with enduring mental health problems
- Psycho-somatic disorders
- General medicine and geriatrics
Gemma has a practice in Trowbridge and is an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy. Gemma has completed the Certificate in Dementia Awareness.
Chris Pollock
Chris has a diploma in Humanistic Counselling based on Transactional Analysis and a Certificate in Counselling Skills. He is in advanced training as a Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist. In addition he has undergone training with CRUSE bereavement care and continues with other professional development. He has been working as a counsellor and psychotherapist for more than five years.
As a counsellor, Chris supports clients to explore safely the things that are troubling them, using the model of Transactional Analysis as a framework. He encourages clients to develop the skills and resources to move on more contentedly into the future.
Chris has a practice in Trowbridge and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Chris has completed the Certificate in Dementia Awareness.
Bridget Green
Bridget qualified as a counsellor in 2004. She holds an NVQ 4 in Care and works in Adult Care. She also works as a counsellor with Wiltshire Mind, as a trainer for Relate and facilitates support groups for carers through the Wiltshire Addiction Support Project and Action on Addiction.
As a counsellor, Bridget is particularly interested in supporting clients to explore their anxieties and to safely look at previous patterns of relating that may inhibit change in the present. Bridget has a practice in Seend and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
To arrange counselling sessions contact contact Gemma Mason on 07974 134265
This service is funded by the Samuel William Farmer Trust and the Inman Charity,
However, if people who have found the service beneficial wish to make a donation, Alzheimer’s Support would be grateful to receive it.
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