About me

Beth Carley, MBACP, Postgrad Dip, PhD, MSc, BA (hons)

I am an integrative therapist, which means my work draws on theory and practice from multiple fields of counselling and therapy, including attachment/psychodynamic-oriented approaches, Embodied Relational Therapy (ERT), Trauma-informed Stabilisation Therapy (TIST) and Gestalt. My personal experience of counselling began many years ago, and encompassed a number of different therapeutic modalities. This in turn informed my decision to later pursue an integrative therapy training, with an embodied, experiential basis that makes use of one’s own lived experience of life’s challenges as a resource for the clinical work, in terms of empathy,  attunement and insight.

I strive to offer a space that is genuinely welcoming for everyone, which means working in an anti-oppressive, inclusive way, whilst acknowledging that we all have prejudices and blindspots, and that overcoming them is a life-long piece of work. ​I previously worked for four years as a counsellor at Watford Women’s Centre (in Watford, UK), with female survivors of domestic abuse. My pronouns are she/her.

​I hold a British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)-accredited foundation certificate and postgraduate diploma in integrative counselling from the Minster Centre in London, one of Europe’s leading integrative counselling and psychotherapy training institutes. I am a registered member of the BACP and have full professional indemnity insurance.