I have done a variety of different jobs in nursing, which have included specialising in cancer care and time spent working as a Ward Sister in a Regional Cancer Centre. This also involved a year spent working on a national cancer research project.  I then went on to train as a community health visitor and worked as a Macmillan nurse for several years.

Becky Kelly

My varied health service work over the last twenty years led me into wanting to train and qualify as a counsellor. I felt I wanted to train in the field of counselling in order to add to my varied skills gained whilst working in the NHS and to have the opportunity and ability to work with clients at deeper relational depth.

  These days I split my working week with three different jobs. I divide my time between working as a health visitor, working as a counsellor within a GP practice and working for myself seeing private counselling clients at York Clinic.  I love the variety and really enjoy the work I do.

How I work  

What I bring to my work as a counsellor is a genuine interest and respect for you as an individual. I will take time to encourage you to talk about what concerns you most. Through the process of talking about your difficulties and experiences I hope you will find ways to understand them better and to work towards making changes if you want to. My approach to counselling has a humanistic base. This means that I will give my full attention to you as an individual and will encourage you to find ways forward which are right for you. It also means to me that I bring knowledge and experience of working with different theoretical counselling frameworks and techniques, and I am able to adapt my counselling style to suit the needs of the person I am working with. However I believe that the quality of the relationship that develops between us is ultimately key to the successful outcome of the counselling for you. I offer short or longer term counselling. We will discuss what you would hope to gain from counselling when we initially meet and if we agree to work together we will review progress at regular intervals. I am a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and I am bound by their Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy. (For more details visit www.bacp.co.uk) I work from York Clinic for Complementary Medicine, 296 Tadcaster Road. York YO24 1ET on Friday afternoons.  It provides a good environment for one to one work. My fee is £38 per hour. 

How to contact me