About me

I am a fully qualified humanistic integrative counsellor. I studied at Keele University where I gained the Certificate in Counselling in 1997 and the Graduate Diploma in Counselling in 1999.

As a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), I work to the standards of good practice set down in their Ethical Framework.

I am actively committed to continuing my professional and personal development and, since qualifying, have undergone extensive further training on various therapeutic approaches and specialist areas including:

• Transactional Analysis
• Brief Solution Focused Therapy
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
• Understanding Domestic Violence
• Counselling Adults Abused as Children
• Person Centred Expressive Arts Therapy
• Bereavement and Loss Counselling
• Gestalt Therapy
• Emotional Freedom Technique
• Working with dissociation
• Rewind Trauma Therapy
• Authentic Body Movement

As well as working in private practice I have also gained wide experience counselling adults and young people at the following organisations:

• Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
• Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution, Leeds
• YMCA in Stoke on Trent
• Uttoxeter MIND
• Bereavement Care, Hanley, Staffordshire
• Women’s Counselling Service, Harrogate

I have also been employed as Lecturer in Counselling at Stoke-on-Trent College, Staffordshire where I taught and evaluated student counsellors.

Phone 07958 634264 or email diane.lazenby@dianelazenby.co.uk

Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy