Ali Carnegie, Counsellor , Supervision in Cambridgeshire , ,

I am based in rural Cambridgeshire and offer online counselling sessions - please get in touch for further information.

I have experience of working with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, disconnection and loneliness, self esteem and self worth issues, self harm, drug and alcohol misuse and dependency, women's issues, early experiences, sexual trauma, eating disorders, suicide ideation and behaviour, relationship problems, chronic physical illness, and more. 

I also work on psychedelic therapy clinical trials and co-facilitate the Cambridge Psychedelic Integration Circle - a supportive safe space for anyone with an interest in or experience with psychedelic use.

I hold a Certificate in Transpersonal Supervision. I am currently completing the Diploma in Supervision with Soul with www.re-vision.org.uk   
 

Why work with me?

Sometimes stillness and reflection with another person enables you to recognise the coping patterns that are no longer serving you, and allows you to release from them. Sometimes talking to someone neutral can help you to tackle issues that are sensitive, and develop your self awareness.I believe that modern living can often result in a loss of connection to our own innate wisdom, and that in such times of isolation, this encourages a disconnection to ourselves, and the world around us. Through my own experience of this, I understand the importance and necessity in reconnecting to others, and the world around us. Working through this process can provide the healing and understanding which, as individuals, and communities, we seek throughout our lives.

My Counselling Experience:

I currently co-run a n NHS counselling service in central Cambridge where I also work as a specialist renal counsellor offering short and longer term counselling for renal (kidney) patients and their families. I have also worked as a wellbeing workshop facilitator and counsellor for Cardiff University Student Wellbeing and Counselling Service, and in private healthcare services in Bristol and London offering 1:1 therapy and groupwork.

I worked as a counsellor at the Swan Project in Montpelier, Bristol from August 2011- May 2014 offering longterm low-cost counselling to a varied client base in Bristol city centre: http://www.theswanproject.co.uk/  During this time I also had my own private counselling practice in Bristol city centre.

 

I have extensive experience working as a drug and alcohol practitioner in the community and prisons, supporting people in their recovery and through facilitating therapeutic groupwork in prisons.

I offer a safe, open space to support you in finding an understanding on whatever may currently be holding you back. I have a Humanistic and Integrative Counselling Diploma from the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy & Counselling (www.bcpc.org.uk).

I am fully insured and a professional member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), adhering to the BACP ethical  framework

About Me:

Before working as a counsellor, I worked in the media for eight years as a public relations consultant, journalist and copywriter. Poor lifestyle choices and prolonged high stress levels resulted in poor physical health and 'burnout'. I looked for ways to heal myself and stumbled across a mixture of reflexology, natural nutrition and yoga. I trained as a reflexologist and bodyworker in the UK and US and went on to work at Ananda In The Himalayas in northern India as a bodyworker and reiki therapist. This time spent working in the foothills of the Himalayas, and through my training at Crestone Healing Arts Centre in the Colorado mountains, allowed me to experience healing within nature on an individual and collective level. It also allowed me to rediscover a connection, to nature and myself, that I had previously lost in my urban existence in London. I decided to train as an integrative BACP-registered counsellor in order to facilitate such healing on a deeper level. 

My counselling training and approach incorporates, amongst other approaches, humanistic and psychodynamic theory and practice. I draw from a wide range of theoretical models and techniques, enabling me to work appropriately with each client. I am interested in emerging and established eco-psychology theories, using a holistic world view to consider how we as people are connected to each other, and to the living world around us, and how the disconnect often felt in modern life can have a profound affect on individual and collective wellbeing.