Naomi Ford
Counsellor
About me and my therapy practice
I am a fully qualified Integrative Counsellor and registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). And a Practitioner Member of The Black, African and Asian Network (BAATN).
I run my Counselling practice Online, working with clients across the world, and see all of my clients remotely *(excluding USA / Canada)
I have worked as an Integrative Counsellor for over 10 years, and draw on a wealth of experience from working within the NHS Occupational Health service, supporting NHS Staff, to working in the University of Bristol Student Counselling Service, supporting Students from Undergraduates to Post Graduate research students.
I am a former Associate Lecturer and Personal Development group Facilitator for the University of the West of England's Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling course. I have used my skills and experience to help train future Counsellors to safely explore group dynamics, developing a deeper understanding and sense of self within a group.
My Counselling service offers each of my clients a fully tailored and personalised service.
I am committed to offering a safe space, and useful resources, to help enable clients to explore the issues they would like support with in therapy.
To find out more please feel free to contact me at any time.
My office hours are 06:00am until 16:00pm Monday to Friday and this is when I will respond to your emails and calls.
"I would recommend Naomi to someone else for counselling. She has helped me massively to work through some of the difficulties that were presenting for me in my life.
Particularly around boundaries both professionally and personally. Naomi listened and was non-judgemental in her approach, I felt heard and understood. My thoughts and feelings were validated. I appreciated the time to focus on me and saw sessions helped me to verbalise and make sense of internal thoughts in a way I had not done so before.
Although I regularly came to sessions ‘unprepared’ I always had something to say and left sessions feeling emotionally lighter."
Simone
"Go to Naomi - she is nice and friendly, understanding and honest."
Abi
"Naomi listened to me with compassion, and helped me through a very difficult time in my life. I always felt heard without judgement and am so glad I found her. I highly recommend her"
Imogen
"Naomi has a wonderful way about her that helped me to feel at ease in seconds, as well as getting through to the difficult life stuff and holding that with care and respect.
She has helped me to gain clarity and set out my boundaries, that I have often struggled to do in my life."
James
Services & fees
Counselling
I offer online Counselling
on both a short term and long-term basis.
And have early morning appointments running from 07.00am Monday to Friday.
You may be coming to Counselling with a clear goal in mind, or you may have a sense that things are feeling difficult and you want some support to work things through.
The choices is yours about how many sessions you feel you need. Occasionally, a one-off session may feel enough or you may be looking for longer support.
A typical starting point for most people in Counselling is six sessions, over a six week period. Where we will meet at the same time and day, each week.
We will review regularly how the sessions are meeting your evolving needs and discuss what next.
If you feel you need more Counselling sessions or longer-term support we can review this at any point and extend sessions as agreed.
And you can end counselling whenever you feel ready, by arranging a final ending session to bring the work covered to a close.
What I can help with
Anxiety, Bereavement and loss, Health issues, Identity ethnicity and race, Infertility, Low mood, Major life changes or events, Managing stress, Managing Perfectionism, Personal growth and rebuilding self-confidence and self-esteem, Relationship issues, Race discrimination, Trauma, Work related stress
Types of therapy
I am an Integrative therapist and use a variety of different approaches, including:
Psychodynamic, Person centred, Relational, Gestalt, Integrative, Solution focused brief therapy, Transactional analysis
Clients I work with
I work with Adults
How I deliver therapy
Online
Cost
Individual Counselling appointments typically lasts 50 minutes
Weekly Counselling Fee £65.00
Fortnightly* Counselling Fee £75.00
(*I do offer fortnightly appointments to clients where appropriate, after completing 6 sessions )
I offer a free initial Zoom meeting up to15 minutes.
The initial meeting is an opportunity for you to share why you feel you need counselling. I will share what I can offer you in counselling, and I will explain the client contract agreement.
If we are a good match, and you are happy to work with me, you can book your first initial appointment and we can take it from there.
You are welcome to contact me at any time.
I will respond to all emails and calls within my office hours, which are 06:00am to 16:00pm
Monday to Friday.
Contact Me
If you have any questions about my counselling service, please feel free to get in touch with me via
Email: naomifordcounselling@gmail.com
Phone: 07897416860