Georgie Maric

After receiving my Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling I have now been taken on in a paid role at Access Counselling, while continuing with my long-term placement clients. I have had one client so far who self-referred to the agency and pays me directly for our weekly sessions.

• Expanded my counselling experience by seeing clients online to embrace the digital experience
• Have seen seven clients including three male clients in order to diversify my client group experience
• Issues clients have brought include relationship, work, sexuality and family
• Clients have presented with OCD, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief and historical self-harm
• Empowered one client to rediscover her strength after bullying at work and secure her dream job through our connection and my emotional support.

• Counselled 16 clients aged 21 to 65, addressing issues including PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression and unexpected pregnancy.
• Established safe, supportive environment using the person-centred approach to foster trust that enabled clients to be heard, some of them for the first time.
• One client was able to talk about historical sex abuse trauma experienced as a child that had not been revealed to anyone else before. I held her throughout, over several sessions and allowed her to process that trauma in a safe space.
• Through a connection and empathetic approach I have enabled clients to build their own confidence and believe in themselves, their own inner strength and power within.
• Several clients sought counselling sessions because of recommendations from other refuge clients.
• Currently counselling a refuge client online following a request to continue sessions after being forced to leave the refuge without notice after a discovery of location.