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Tel: 07375786411, email: vanessa.cope12@gmail.com

Welcome to Mariposa Counselling

Welcome to Mariposa Counselling, where I provide a safe and supportive space for you to explore your mental and emotional well-being. I am committed to helping you achieve a happier and healthier life. Take the first step towards healing today.

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About Me

As a qualified and accredited counsellor, I have 12 years of counselling experience helping clients overcome a wide range of mental health and emotional challenges. In addition to that, I have 20 years of supporting people, working with families, teenagers and young parents as a Social Worker in the voluntary sector. 

I have been a lone parent, now a menopausal grandmother, who has been through the recent demise of a parent to dementia and cancer. I have personal insight into these life experiences and approach life with humour and determination.
I am dedicated to providing personalised care that meets your unique needs and works at your pace. This could be weekly or fortnightly sessions.
Perhaps it's a personal crisis that has led you to seek counselling, work stress, people-pleasing, past traumatic experiences, a childhood of being neglected or misunderstood, neuro-divergence that is creating difficulties in your life, something life-changing, or a building dissatisfaction with your life or personal relationships. Whatever the reason, you will meet an empathic, warm and supportive helper who will assist you to explore and prioritise what is important in your life to bring you greater solace and contentment.

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Services

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Counselling

At Mariposa Counselling, I offer psychodynamic  counselling (focusing upon how past experiences are affecting you in the present and on what is just outside of conscious awareness to bring it into focus)  to help you identify anything that is holding you back or preventing you from reaching a satisfying experience of your life. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, stress, PTSD or any other mental health concern, I am prepared to support you every step of the way.

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EMDR

I also offer EMDR as part of my approach, if it is suitable and safe to use it. EMDR can help you to reprocess disturbing memories so that they become less distressing and change some of the negative beliefs that you may hold about yourself. EMDR is not the only method I use to achieve this but it can achieve results more quickly, depending upon the complexity involved. 

There is a slightly higher charge for this type of therapy as it requires specialist supervision.
 

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Supervision

I also hold a diploma in supervision and can offer monthly individual supervision to counsellors. 

I have experience of supervising practitioners in both private practice and who work for organisations. 
I have managerial experience within small voluntary sector organisations and as a past union steward I am very knowledgeable about employee rights and employer responsibilities. 
I can offer reduced price supervision to trainee counsellors and psychotherapists.

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