Counselling, Psychotherapy, Supervision and Training in Cornwall, with -
Cathy McQuaid, Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer.
Welcome to The Bodmin Psychotherapy and Counselling Centre Website:
I hope you find something that is helpful to you here. Services available at the Centre include Psychotherapy, Counselling, Supervision and Training. The training courses available may suit private individuals, or qualified practitioners looking for continuing professional development training, or be useful to people who wish to train as psychotherapists.
The Bodmin Psychotherapy and Counselling Centre is
the ONLYI.T.A. Registered Training Establishment in Cornwall.
For 'An Idea of What is Available,' please see below or click on the tabs at the side of the page.
Are YOU Feeling stuck? In need of some life changes? Having problems at work? Having communication problems? Having relationship difficulties?
Then Counselling and Psychotherapy may help you to gain a new perspective on your problems. Clients come to the centre with numerous and varied issues, the most common of which are anxiety, adoption, abuse, bereavement and loss, depression, or just feeling down, low self esteem and self confidence, parenting issues, stress, trauma, personal development and relationship problems. For more information on the Counselling and Psychotherapy services that are available, please go to the 'Therapy FAQ' and 'Therapists' pages
Alternatively, you may wish to come along to one of our 'Understanding Human Personality Courses'. For more information, go to the 'UHP / TA101' page.
Do YOU Want to have a clearer understanding of 'Who you are', 'What you do' and 'Why you do it'?
Then the 'Understanding Human Personality' Course is for you. For more information, go to the 'UHP / TA101 page.
Do YOU Want to train to be a U.K.C.P. registered Psychotherapist? or Want some additional therapeutic skills for working with clients? or Want to be one of the privileged T.A. therapists in Cornwall?
Then One of our Foundation and Advanced T.A. psychotherapy training courses may be for you.
You can take a stand alone Foundation Year, and/or continue into Advanced training and gain U.K.C.P. registration. Please go to the 'UHP / TA101, 'Foundation Year', 'Diploma Course and/or 'Advanced TA' pages.
For other continuing professional development training days, please see the 'C.P.D. Workshops' page.
Where is the Bodmin Psychotherapy & Counselling Centre? The Centre is roughly a 5 minutes walk from Bodmin Town Centre, and is within easy travelling distance from Camelford, Camborne, Falmouth, Launceston, Liskeard, Lostwithiel, Newquay, Padstow, Plymouth, Redruth, Rock, Saltash, St Austell, Tavistock, Truro and Wadebridge. It has convenient parking. As we have such a convenient central location, we can cater for a large area of North, East and Central Cornwall. Click for a map.
What Does Cathy do? First of all, please let me tell you something about my therapeutic approach. I would describe myself as an Integrative Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Supervisor, using a combination of the Person Centred approach with Transactional Analysis and Psychodynamic theoretical models. Basically, this means that I believe it is the Clients themselves who hold the answers to their own questions. What I bring to the relationship is warmth, compassion and genuine respect for the client, and a safe space for them to tell their story. I offer a willingness to share the therapeutic journey with each Client, and to help them to reach the goals they set out for us to achieve. The counselling and psychotherapy theories I use can help the Client to gain some idea of the history of their present day difficulties, and offer a way forward for the Client in terms of re-structuring or re-aligning their perception or view on life. They can help them to return to their original drive towards wholeness and health.
I offer supervision to other counsellors and psychotherapists. I have been providing supervision since 2002.
Please see the 'Supervision' page for more information.
In addition, I am a Trainer. I am endorsed to teach Transactional Analysis by the European Association for Transactional Analysis. For more information about T.A. courses please go to the 'UHP / TA101,' 'Foundation Year' 'Diploma Course' and 'Advanced TA' pages.
If you have any questions about anything on my site, please feel free to phone, or email. (You can use the 'Send an Email link on the left). If you want to learn more about the Person Centred Approach, or Transactional Analysis, have a look at the following websites
What Services are Available? I offer counselling and psychotherapy for individuals and couples.
See the 'Therapy FAQ' page for more information to help you decide whether this is for you.
Please also see the 'Therapists' page for information on other therapists offering counselling and psychotherapy.
Supervision is available for qualified and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists.
For further information, please read the 'Supervision' page.
How to Make an Appointment. The best way to contact me is by phone on 01208 74600 . My hours of work are 0930am until 5pm. As I do not interrupt sessions to answer the phone, you may get the answering machine. This is confidential, and you can leave your name and number, and any message, and I will call you back. Alternatively, you can email me using the 'Send an Email' link on the left. I check my email daily and will respond to you as soon as I can. I do not offer telephone or on-line counselling.
What Happens Next? Initially, I offer all potential new clients an initial assessment session. This enables us to meet and discuss any worries or concerns you may have, and to decide whether we feel that we want to work together. I also assess to see whether I would be the appropriate counsellor or therapist for you. If for any reason we decide not to work together, then I can help you with details of colleagues whom you may choose to contact. The assessment session usually lasts for about an hour.
If we decide to work together we can then decide what it is that you want to get from the counselling or psychotherapy process. We can also discuss regular review sessions so that we can keep a focus on whether you are getting what you need.
I see clients weekly, during the day. I prefer to see clients at the same time on the same day each week, but I also appreciate that this is not always possible so I am willing to negotiate times and days on an individual basis.
