Integrative | Creative | Empowering

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Lauren Elliott Vincent BA Hons

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ABOUT ME

My career started out after undertaking Counselling myself and seeing the huge benefit it can have. 

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I have a lot of life experience and understanding of the importance of life and the struggles we all face, through my own trials and professional workings.

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​I am an Exeter based Integrative Counsellor, which means I am able to draw on a

variety of methods and techniques to best assist you maintaining very relaxed,

patient led sessions giving you the opportunity to grow and develop as best you can, helping you to help yourself.

I work creatively in a variety of ways to help you feel comfortable and open up in a safe space, I like to provide an engaging and easy-going therapy style. I don’t believe in forcing therapy if it is not something you enjoy and benefit from. I choose to practice a modern approach to mental health counselling that speaks to the population I work with that also feels truest to me.

My approach is based on working in the here and now looking at whats going on for you whilst also paying attention to attachment and unfinished cycles in the past. I intertwine this by using creative ways of working which I find to help deepen the sessions.

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Here are a few examples of how I run my modern private practice:

I DON’T:

✖️ Have an office that is stuffy and blah-feeling.

✖️ Sit & stare at you in silence.

✖️ Ask you “how do you feel about that?” over & over.

I DO:

✔️ Stay relevant.

✔️ Walk along side you on your journey rather than authority.

✔️ Sit in the room WITH you.

✔️ Tailor my approach to the client’s individual needs instead of using blanket approaches.

✔️ Welcome real language in session (sometimes that includes cursing). I want you to show up as yourself.

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I offer both long and short term counselling dependant on your needs.

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I specialise in therapy for Survivors of Domestic Abuse and Trauma, I have a wider knowledge and interest in Relationships, Men's Therapy, Women's Empowerment and Parenthood. However thats not to say I only see clients needing therapy for this.

My door is always open to everyone.

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My daily work is helping people deal with a wide variety of conditions. 

Abuse | Abortion | Anxiety | Affairs | Attachment | Anger | Betrayal | Bereavement |

Career | Couples | Depression | Divorce | Domestic Abuse | Family & Relationships | 

Low Self Esteem | Low Self Confidence  | Loss | Miscarriage | Men's Therapy |

Pregnancy and Birth | Independent Parenting | Sexual Abuse | Stress | Separation

| Trauma | Women's Empowerment

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I facilitate Domestic Abuse Recovery, Pattern Change & Parent Support Groups.

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I hold membership with the BACP and have qualifications in the following:

• BA Honours Degree 2.1 in Integrative Counselling - Level 6

• FDA in Integrative Counselling - Level 5 

• Level 3 Certificate in Counselling

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Continued Personal Development Qualifications

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• Working With Trauma Triggers and Flashbacks

• ​Dealing with Narcissism Diploma

•   Complicated Matters - The links between experiences of domestic & sexual violence, problematic substance abuse and mental ill health.

•  Couples & Family Therapy Diploma

• Excellence in Volunteering -200 Hours

• Coaching 101

• Trauma Defined: The Body Keeps Score

• How to do counselling online: a coronavirus primer

• Transactional Analysis 101

• Existential Therapy Workshop

• Level 2 in The Nature and Impact of Domestic Abuse and Violence

• Certificate of Awareness of Domestic Violence and Abuse

• Sexual Abuse - Dealing with Disclosures

• Safeguarding - Protecting Children, Young People & Adults

• Safeguarding Group 2 & 3

• Exploring Positive Emotions

• Developing Playfulness & A Creative Practice

• Developing Creative Practice - Enabling creative contact with clients

• Introduction to Mentoring

• Life Coaching Introduction

• Introduction to Mindfulness

Vincent Van Gogh

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”