Crisisaid - Counselling and Bereavement Counselling in CambridgeTHIS WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY BEING RESTRUCTURED. SOME PAGES AND LINKS WILL BE DISORGANISED. What is Crisis Aid? Crisis Aid is a website offering support to those people experiencing a personal crisis and to those who are helping them. It emerged from the Counselling and training provided by Janet Nicholls (publications in the name of Janet McKenzie) and provides links to her services. A personal crisis is an acutely difficult time, and may involve some profound changes. This website will also help people whose problems may not be seen as particularly extreme. Included here is information about access to Counselling (general counselling and bereavement counselling in Cambridge), training (of police family liaison officers, other professionals and volunteers) Helping others, publications and organisations Organisations and publications. What can be found in the Crisis Aid website? Support for those experiencing grief, anxiety, stress, trauma and/or depression.
General bereavement counselling and specialist support for those experiencing grief as a result of a homicide (murder or manslaughter).
Access to training and advice about how to help people experiencing a crisis (including victims of crime and other trauma).
Information about counselling in general as well as the counselling service in Cambridge.
A list of many services, which can be accessed from this site.
Contents
Counselling - Counselling. What is counselling and what can you expect? Seeing Janet Nicholls or finding another good counsellor in your area.
Helping yourself - Helping yourself. How can you cope with a crisis in the here and now? Some tips on managing a crisis, anxiety, stress, grief, depression and/or trauma. This includes inspirational quotes and ends with ideas about creative therapies.
Helping others - Helping others. Some tips on supporting people who are experiencing a crisis and/or trauma. Access to training by Janet Nicholls (e.g. to Victim Support workers, those police Family Liaison Officers working with people bereaved by homicide, and other support workers)?
Organisations and publications - Other sources of help. Links to organisations and publications.
Counselling
You can see me for counselling at Physic: The Oakington Therapy, Girton, Cambridge.
By car. The practice is close to the A14 (Junction 30) and M11, making it within easy reach by car of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Ely, St. Neots, Newmarket, Saffron Walden, Royston and other parts of East Anglia.
By bus. The practice is on the C6 (Oakington) bus route from Cambridge city centre.
See the Physic website www.physic.co.uk for a map.
For further information, to discuss your requirements or to make an appointment please contact me as follows.
Telephone: 01223 237459
Email: reception@physic.co.uk
Website: www.physic.co.uk
About Janet Nicholls
In 2001 I was a university lecturer, teaching sociology, when the murder of my younger sister changed my life, and my family’s lives, dramatically. As a result of this bereavement I trained to be a counsellor and developed an interest in how, even after a major crisis, people have been able to re-orientate themselves and develop a new and positive appreciation of life. It is not a case of ‘getting-over’ something, but of learning to live in a world that suddenly looks very different – and it is hard to do this alone.
Areas of Specialism
Counselling and support.Private practice for general counselling at Physic: the Oakington Therapy Centre.
Volunteer worker for Cruse, Bereavement Care.
Volunteer worker for Support After Murder and Manslaughter.
Member of the Parkside Counselling Group, Cambridge.
Training.
Training sessions about supporting families bereaved by homicide for police family liaison officers. These have included sessions for the following constabularies - Metropolitan Police, Cambridgeshire, Sussex, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
Training sessions about supporting families bereaved by homicide for voluntary workers. These have included Cruse, Victim Support and the Ongar Bereavement Group.
Qualifications in counselling
Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and thus adhering to the BACP statement of ethical practice.
Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, Cambridge Regional College (Central School for Counselling Training), 2004.
Advanced Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory, Cambridge Regional College (Assessment Qualifications Alliance and CSCT), 2002.
Other qualifications
Ph.D. degree, thesis title 'Education as a political issue', Salford University, 1990.
M.Sc. degree, Advanced Educational and Social Research Methods, Open University, 1986.
Postgraduate Certificate in Education (qualification to teach age 16+) Manchester University, 1981.
B.A.(Honours) degree, Contemporary Studies, Hatfield Polytechnic, 1980.
Current writing.
I am currently writing a book about the experiences of my family in the two years after the murder of my sister. Its provisional title is 'Hope'.
Main academic books - written in the name of McKenzie.
1996, 1999, 2006, 2009 chapters on 'Education' (four editions) and 'Politics' (two editions) in the four editions of 'Sociology: Making Sense of Society', with Marsh, I. and Keating, M. et al, Prentice Hall.
2001 - Changing Education: A Sociology of British Education Since 1944, Prentice Hall. Sole author.
1993 - Education as a Political Issue, Avebury Research Monographs in the Social Sciences. (Sole author of published Ph.D. thesis.)
A list of journal articles and other chapters in books can be supplied.
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