Jayne Batten

As a skilled Counselling Therapist, I use an individualised, integrative, compassionate, neurodiversity and 2SLGBTQI+ affirming approach to empower clients in my practice, help them to develop life skills and utilise the resources within to help face and resolve life’s challenges. Therapy helps us to examine our past experience, reveal themes within our behaviours and understand what motivates us. Therapy also helps us to examine past trauma. Within the safety of therapy we can focus on how our thoughts and behaviours, as well as the systems we exist within, contribute to our problems, and gain insight on how we might learn new ways to react to the world around us. The focus of my work is to help my clients learn to trust themselves and realise their potential. It helps to identify and understand long held beliefs and assumptions that get in the way of our health, happiness and wellbeing. This discovery gives us permission to begin to question and evaluate the beliefs and assumptions that form barriers to our healthy self-development and happiness. I am a Counselling Therapist (CT) with the Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta; a Registered Professional Counsellor (RPC) and hold a Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling (MPCC) designation with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA); a Registrant on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP); and, a Graduate Member with the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS). Originally from Canada, I obtained my BA(Hons) Counselling Studies and MSc Psychology at the University of Plymouth in the UK, where I also completed my practicum training to become a Counselling Therapist and Clinical Supervisor.