Beth O'Sullivan Psychotherapy Services

Couples and inDIvidual counselling & psychotherapy In Cheltenham

Qualifications & CPD

As a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist with 15 years of experience, I hold a Master’s degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University and am accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

I also have a diploma in Couples Counselling with Relate and extensive training in supporting individuals and couples through a wide range of emotional challenges.

Qualifications

  • Post-graduate certificate in Couples' Counselling
  • BACP accredited Counsellor & Psychotherapist
  • Masters Degree in Counselling/Psychotherapy (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  • Industry-specific diploma in cognitive behavioural therapy for addictive eating (accreditation Edexcel)
  • Certificate - Counselling eating disorders
  • BA (Hons) Education
  • Post-graduate certificate in Education

Continuing Professional Development

different counselling approaches to couple counselling; solution-focused couples' counselling, relationship challenges like infidelity, money worries, intimacy issues, parenting struggles, conflict, and anxiety; the importance of communication; contemporary approaches to psychotherapy with couples; the nature of attraction and idealisation; what individuals bring to their relationships, the internal couple and repeated patterns of relationship dynamics; and the past in the present, using genograms, intergenerational patterns and shared sensitivities.


The individual:

addictions; narrative therapy; psychoanalytic understanding of shame; clinical assessment; post-traumatic stress; trauma, memory and the restoration of one's self; neurodivergent-affirming counselling, which recognises and celebrates differences in how brains function, providing a safe space to explore strengths and challenges and develop coping skills and self-advocacy; redundancy and the experience of loss.

I engage in continuous clinical supervision

BA (Hons) (East London University)

Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Anglia Ruskin University)

Enhanced DBS check

Indemnity insurance


I have worked as a group counsellor for five years, facilitating group therapy focused on disordered eating. In addition, I have practised as a psychotherapist and counsellor for ten years, providing individual and couples therapy for a variety of issues. My experience includes working with the following agencies:

  • Relate couples counselling, Worcester
  • Women's Therapy Centre, North London
  • Calm Counselling Agency, Harlow
  • Waltham Forest Disability Resource Centre, Leyton, London
  • Group Therapy Disordered Eating

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