Jeannette Roddy

I have private practice on Wednesdays and Fridays. Currently I only have availability on Fridays. Please contact me to discuss currently available slots. Please note that face to face counselling sessions all take place between 10am and 6pm.

I can also offer online and telephone therapy for people living further away or who may not be able to reach Great Ayton easily.

My clients have described me as a warm and compassionate therapist who understands what is going on for clients quickly, and offers useful observations and challenges to allow exploration of the issue brought to the session. I also have a reasonably good sense of humour which can be helpful in counselling sometimes!

I have been in counselling practice for over 15 years and have worked with people who have had a range of experiences, including domestic abuse or violence, workplace bullying, childhood abuse in all its forms, bereavement and loss. Symptoms reported by clients range from depression and anxiety, through to complex trauma and dissociation.

I work as an integrative therapist with a person-centred base, drawing on elements of coaching, CBT and psychodynamic practice. This means that I work with what you bring and use different skills to help, depending on the topic. This may include working with visual imagery or using creative activities where this is appropriate for you. 

I believe that it does not matter too much where we start from. As we explore topics, we will reach those areas that will be helpful for you in terms of resolving what has brought you to counselling. As such, all the counselling I undertake is client led.

There are no minimum or maximum numbers of sessions. Counselling can be short (up to 6 sessions), medium (6-20 sessions) or long term (more than 20 sessions). 

In general, the more complex and longer term your issues have been, the longer therapy will take to provide a good outcome for you. Many clients find that up to 20 sessions is enough, a few have spent more than a year with me. This is something that we would cover in our free 30-minute introductory session, when we can explore what might be helpful for you.

I have my own private practice room in Great Ayton for in-person, face to face work. It is easy to find (I give very good directions I understand!) and there is free parking available outside.

Great Ayton can be reached by bus and train, although up to date timetables would be required to ensure you know bus arrival and departure times. For those people who would struggle to travel to Great Ayton for counselling, I can also offer online or telephone sessions. These are a little different to face to face sessions, as we go a little slower due to the technological limitations, but can also  be very helpful for clients.

Sessions are usually weekly and last 60 minutes. Fortnightly sessions may be possible, but are not always suitable for clients due to the length of time between sessions. If you would like fortnightly sessions, please let me know so that we can discuss this first, so that I can understand the rationale for this. I can then offer a view as to the impact of fortnightly work so that you can decide whether that will work for you or not. 

I offer a free 30-minute introductory session for us to get to know each other and decide whether we would be a good fit in working together. During this time we can discuss timings and your expectations around numbers of sessions.

I have been in private practice since 2014 and have helped many people with a range of issues, including depression, anxiety, bereavement, work related stress, eating disorders, childhood experiences of abuse and complex relationships. I enjoy the counselling process, as I witness people start to regain control of their lives and move onto to a future they are comfortable with.

You can contact me via email (jroddy@answersconsulting.com) or via the contact form on my website (greataytoncounselling.co.uk). Please do tell me if you would prefer me to contact you by telephone or email - I am happy to do either. Please provide a telephone number if you want me to call you back!

The first session could be regarded as our free introductory session. During that 30 minute session, I will ask you a few questions about why you are interested in counselling and also provide you with the opportunity to ask me any questions too. We will then talk about what the counselling might look like and decided whether we feel the fit is right for us both.

If we agree that we would like to work together, I will then email you with my practice contract (much as other counselling contracts so there shouldn't be any surprises!). and a form for you to fill in with some personal details and give to me at our first counselling session. We will spend a few minutes at the start of the counselling session going over the paperwork and then start the counselling properly.

Counselling sessions are 60 minutes long and I tend to keep to time quite well. This ensures privacy between clients as I have time built into my schedule to allow one to leave before another arrives.

I can offer supervision between 10am and 5pm, Monday to Friday, depending on availability. I currently do have availability, but please contact me for current times and dates. Please note that I am currently only taking qualified counsellors for supervision. Supervision can be provided face to face or online, depending on your location.

I have been working as a supervisor since 2013. I work integratively, drawing on a person-centred approach whilst integrating elements of CBT, coaching and psychodynamic theories and practice. 

As I only work with qualified therapists, my approach is collegiate, that we work together as a team to support you in your practice. I want to help you to understand what you bring to supervision and why and to explore what may be going on for either/both you and the client. Sometimes we might explore what happened in a particular session, sometimes we will talk about other ways to approach a client issue or help you to explore your thoughts feelings regarding a particular client. 

 I find different perspectives for exploring issues, which each of us contribute to, can bring great insight, learning and growth. I also believe challenge and support to be essential elements of a good supervisory experience.

I also believe that group supervision can be a great support for counsellors, particularly those in private practice who have limited contact with colleagues. I am happy to offer group supervision if you are interested in this. 

I am an active researcher within domestic abuse and have expertise in this area. I have also worked in general practice and bereavement services since qualification and bring a lot of experience around complex case work.

Feedback from my supervisees is that I am very organised, warm and supportive, as well as getting to the heart of the matter with people quite quickly. This can be quite challenging. There are supervisors who will be much less direct than I am. Depending on what you are looking for in a supervisor, I may be what you are looking for, or not! I do offer a 30 minute free session for us to meet and see whether we like each others approach!

I have my own practice room in Great Ayton (North Yorkshire) for those who can attend in person. For those who live further away or who will find it difficult to get to Great Ayton, I also offer online or telephone supervision.

Supervision can be 1 hour or 1.5 hours per month or we can meet fortnightly for 1 hour each session if that suits your practice better.

I am only work with qualified counsellors for supervision.

I am aware that sometimes counsellors need short-term supervision as a result of their existing supervisors illness or extended leave of absence. I am happy to offer 1-3 sessions of supervision where this is possible.

Supervision is not just about case work, but about your development as a professional counsellor. This includes identifying possible CPD opportunities, looking forward at your career aspirations and what additional experience you might need to achieve your ambitions, exploring any personal difficulties you might have (in relation to your practice) as well as your development as a counsellor in practice. 

I have previously run personal development groups, group supervisions and set up and managed a domestic abuse counselling clinic which grew to more than 20 counsellors, seeing over 60 clients per week. I offer this information to show the breadth of my experience and my ability to understand things from the perspective of a private practitioner, trainer and clinical lead. This can be particularly helpful for counsellors starting in a new environment.

Moving supervisors can be a trying time. As counsellors, we rely heavily on the support and understanding of our supervisor and many of us have close, long term relationships with them. Changing a supervisor is therefore not always easy, and not always something we have chosen to do. It can feel very strange in a new and different relationship, but with that also comes opportunities. I will help you to make the transition to the best of my ability.

I offer a free 30-minute introductory session where we can check whether we have the right fit for ongoing supervision work together. 

If we decide to work together I will email a contract for you to look at and which we can discuss at the first session. This contains all the things you would normally expect to see so there should be no surprises. Contract discussion in the first session usually takes a maximum of 10 minutes and usually less. The remaining time will be spent discussing what you want to focus on in supervision and any supervision issues that you bring. At the end of the session we will agree a date and time for the next supervision.

Going forward, the emphasis for the content of the supervision session will lie with you so that you get what you need from supervision. If there is anything that I feel would be useful to spend time on in addition to this, I will bring this to your attention. In this way we co-create each supervision session.

I am currently offering training on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9am - 6pm, either face to face or online. Training can be half days or full days. Please contact me for my specific availability over the next few months. 

I offer highly specialist, online training in working with people who have experienced domestic abuse or domestic violence. 

Domestic abuse, whether witnessed or experienced as child or an adult, can lead to longer term mental health conditions such as high levels of anxiety, relationship and trust issues, depression, post-traumatic stress, suicidal ideation, low esteem and low self-confidence. Working with people who have experienced domestic abuse is complex work and requires care and attention, as well as knowledge of the topic and high levels of therapeutic skill. I have developed a range of training from half day introductory seminars to an intensive 4-day counselling training course which covers everything required to start working as a counsellor with people who have experienced domestic abuse.

The training I deliver is based on my published research on domestic abuse counselling, which includes the domestic abuse competency framework for counsellors, co-authored with Professor Lynne Gabriel in 2019. This framework was developed from client research, identifying what clients wanted from counselling and what counselling process works best for them. This has been tested in a clinical environment at the University of Salford and found to be very effective.

This model of domestic violence is applicable to all individuals who have experienced domestic abuse. I work from the basis that we process the experience of the individual, based on their own history and social context, rather than the social context of the perpetration. This is quite different to most other training, but it allows a much more flexible and inclusive approach for clients. 

Training is available to book online through the Dactari website. However, I can also offer bespoke training that is suitable for particular organisational needs, either for one day or two day sessions. Please contact me to find out more about what I can offer and how that would fit with your organisation.

The domestic abuse counselling training course is currently run 3 times per year and covers the competencies required for working with experiences of domestic abuse. This includes understanding domestic abuse and its impact on the individual, the therapeutic process that the client needs to move forward after their experiences, specific therapeutic skills required to support  your practice development, working with complex trauma and the well-being of the therapist. Domestic abuse work can take an emotional toll on a therapist and being aware of, and responding to, warning signs is essential to safe practice. Organisational best practice takes into account these risks and offers training and support to mitigate them. 

Bespoke training can be offered to organisations to provide information about the psychological impact of domestic abuse, or the therapeutic skills required for engaging with domestic abuse clients. Additional specialist seminars on complex trauma and how to work with it, the legal processes that many clients have to go through and the ethics and safety of practitioner work are also available. Each organisation will have differences in what training has already been offered/delivered, hence the offer to create something that will 'plug the gaps' left by more generally available training.

We also offer some recorded training sessions which are available to download from our website. More training will added over the next year or so.

Please note that, to our knowledge, there are no other providers in the UK offering this level of training. Please do view our website https://www.dactari.co.uk. I would be delighted to work with you if there is something I could help with!

If you are an organisation with specific training needs, bespoke training sessions can be created for your team. This may include counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health nurses, social workers, psychologists or psychiatrists. Please contact me to discuss your requirements. I will be happy to provide a quotation for the work, once we have established your needs.

Full details of all of our online training, accessible from across the UK, is available on our website https://www.dactari.co.uk.