River-Counselling
BACP

Sally Johnson Reg. MBACP Adv Dip Couns

I have gained valuable experience from my work and feel I have been fortunate and privileged to work with a wide range of people who have allowed me into their lives. I have and continue to see people from varying age groups and back grounds with a wide range of presenting problems.

Sally's experience

In addition to my practice I work for C.R.B. in Hove, working with clients who have difficulties with their relationship with alcohol and/or substances. I have worked here for 3 years.

I also joined Ashford Counselling Centre where clients come to see me with all sorts of different issues. From 2010 – 2012 I was a counsellor at Folkestone and Dover Colleges working with young people and mature students. During the same 2 years I worked at a primary school in Rainham counselling children aged from 5 – 11 this was for the charity The Place2Be.

Sally's qualifications

I regularly undertake new training to update and revise my skills.
My qualifications, training, courses and workshops include:

  • Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling
  • Further Counselling Skills
  • Basic Counselling Skills

Community Justice Unit Certificate modules in:

 

  • Ethics, Values and Diversity within the Community Justice Sector
  • Support and Interventions for Substance Misusers
  • Orientation to Drug and Alcohol Services

 

Counselling Training – Continued Professional Development:

 

  • Working with culture and core beliefs
  • Brief solution focused Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Self-Esteem
  • Initial Counselling Assessments
  • Play Therapy
  • Culture and Core Beliefs
  • Working Effectively with Ambivalence and Resistance
  • Coping with Stress
  • Attachment 
  • Understanding Diverse Sexual Orientation
  • Working with survivors of sexual abuse
  • Hypnotherapy Training 2015 and 2016
  • CBT

 

Training related to clients relationship with alcohol/drugs Continued Professional Development :-

 

  • C.P.D Seminar – 2012, 2013, 2014 Sussex D.A.A.T
  • Core Beliefs about Recovery
  • Recovery in Relation to Counselling
  • Drug and Alcohol Basic Awareness
  • How core beliefs about recovery might Impact relationships
  • Exploring Different Definitions of Recovery
  • 12 step model
  • Ethics, Values and Diversity within the Community Justice Sector
  • Support and Interventions for Substance Misusers
  • Orientation to Drug and Alcohol Services