Type of service: Counsellor

Penelope Anne Rose Bould MBACP & AP Registered Counsellor / Psychotherapist, Psychosexual & Multi-Addictions Therapist.

Qualified to administer the Autism Diagnostic Interview plus a range of other assessment tools for an A to Z of conditions, challenges & issues.

Highly experienced university educated, qualified professional warm-hearted registered practitioner, with an unusually broad & deep level of training. I work with adults, couples, all kinds of relationships, children, young people, & families as well as providing mediation for people such as those needing to improve relationships at work. Professional member of BACP (the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy) since 2008. Graduated in counselling 2002.

Former member University of Warwick Medical School Advisory Board & British Council of Disabled People campaigns & parliamentary worker.

My work includes psychosexual therapy for all kinds of problems, as well as sexual & pornography addictions, plus multi-addictions, e.g., to alcohol, other substances & behaviours such as gambling, gaming & shopping. Experienced & specially trained in working with people who offend, particularly since 2014/15. Included providing support for autistic people under police investigation, being charged, going to court, facing sentencing & providing an assessment report, treatment & evidence-based rehabilitation programme. My training in autism has included live events with the Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health including with famous Professor Tony Attwood & the Centre for Child Mental Health in London. I‘ve attended National Autistic Society conference. Also attended many trainings on ASD, ADHD plus an A to Z of other conditions, challenges, issues & problems, such as abuse, addiction, anxiety, depression, fire-setting, OCD, oppression, coercion, prejudice, discrimination, personality disorders, & trauma, to name but a few amongst over 1,060 learning events such as courses, conferences, seminars, webinars & workshops.

I employ diagnostic tools to assist my work to understand & tailor my services to clients' needs. My practice is informed by scientific research & various evidence-based modalities of therapy.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Adult , Child

Covers: East Midlands, East of England, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber

Registrations and professional qualifications: MBACP Registered Member British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy; Addiction Professionals; British Society for Sexual Medicine; Complex Trauma Institute; Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health; British Society for Criminology.

Approaches and tools used: Multi-Addictions Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, DBT, Person-Centred, Trauma Informed, Polyvagal Theory, Motivational Interviewing, qualified to administer Autism Diagnostic Interview, ADI, 12 Step Addiction Recovery, plus elements of Existential Therapy, Transactional Analysis,