About Elizabeth Harvey

Elizabeth Harvey I have a background in nursing, having worked for several years as an Occupational Health Adviser for various companies. In this capacity I have provided advice and support to people with health problems, assisting them to manage at work, and help to ensure their employers provide appropriate support and understanding.

This experience has involved significant work with people experiencing stress and depression as well as working with people following traumatic events.

It is because of my involvement of working with people who were experiencing anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress that I decided to undertake further training in counselling and psychotherapy at The School of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Regent’s College, London.

I now work as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist in private practice and also for Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP). I have previously
worked for the Emergency Services in Hertfordshire, MIND, The Centre for Healthy Living in Letchworth, Manor Farm Family Centre in Sandy, and CRUSE Bedfordshire.

As an Integrative Counsellor I work with different psychotherapeutic approaches including Person Centred, Existential, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution Focussed, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing).

The method that I choose to work with depends primarily on the person, as I consider it is important to match the right treatment to the particular situation of the person concerned.

Some of the problems which can be helped by counselling and psychotherapy include:

Anxiety
Depression
Relationship difficulties

Anger management
Bereavement
Sense of hopelessness and despair

Low self-esteem
Abuse issues
Trauma and PTSD
(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

Qualifications:

BSc Health Studies
PgD Counselling and Psychotherapy
Primary certificate in CBT and Advanced certificate in CBT skills
Trauma focussed CBT
EMDR

MBACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist
UKRC Registered Independent Counsellor
Member of the Society for Existential Analysis
Member of the EMDR Association UK & Ireland