“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung.
Charmaine Dunmow BSc. (Hons), UKCP Accredited
Making the decision to come for counselling is the first step on the journey to discovering and understanding more about yourself, your relationships and your place in the world.
My practice is based in the historic market town of Saffron Walden in Essex, close to the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders.
I am an experienced, integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor and an Accredited Member of the UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy).
I enjoy working with adult clients individually, with couples and with small adult groups.
Who I work with:
I work with people from different walks of life, covering a wide range of life concerns. I offer a space to reflect, explore, to find meaning, to enhance life and to live more consciously.
I am trained in somatic trauma work and I have experience in supporting people who are suffering from anxiety, depression, trauma, developmental trauma, attachment and relationship complications, neglect and abuse.
As a relational counsellor my approach is always collaborative. My work acknowledges the crucial inter-relationship of body, mind, heart and soul.
I offer support with:
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
How I Work:
My approach is primarily Humanistic, grounded in Attachment Theory and guided by current neuroscience.
What distinguishes psychotherapeutic counselling from traditional counselling is the emphasis it places on the in-depth, inter-subjective, therapeutic relationship, jointly created by the therapist and the client. This relationship is a central factor.
Within the safety of the therapeutic relationship, I focus on how my client experiences their life in the present. Every client has a unique situation and is considered as a whole. I encourage my client to explore and develop their own self awareness so it is made possible for them to begin to identify what it is that is needed in their life now. At the core of our work we will be looking at relationships in all dimensions.
Talking, being heard and being understood on a deeper level can bring about profound change. Some clients may want to explore further by using other forms of creative expression, such as working with image and metaphor, movement, painting and expressive art, visualisation, dreams and writing.
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Qualification & Training
Current Study:
Psychotherapy Today
Ecotherapy
Relevant Education:
BSc. (Hons) Integrative Counselling
Advanced Diploma Integrative Counselling
Diploma Integrative Counselling
Certificate in Humanistic Counselling
Post Qualification Courses:
Diploma Jungian Studies
Person Centred Art Therapy Skills Course
Somatic Trauma Training
Creative Therapy Certificate - Adults and Children
CBT Mindfulness & SR Mindfulness
Stress Reduction & SR Mindfulness
Couple Counselling Certificate
EFT
Supervision Advanced Certificate
Key Interests:
Jungian Psychology
Attachment Theory
Trauma & Somatic Body Awareness
Visualisation, meditation and breathwork
Sensorimotor Practices
Developmental Trauma
Healing through the creative process
Nature Based Therapy - Ecotherapy
CPD - ongoing
I am committed to my own psychological development.
My contact email is: charmaine@therapyroomsw.co.uk
