Welcome to the personal website of Noel Bell.
I am registered and accredited as a psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). The UKCP is the UK’s professional body for the education, training and accreditation of psychotherapists. I can offer a confidential and private space for you to assess your life choices and to reflect on the implications of your decisions.
I can help with issues related to anxiety, depression, loneliness, addictions, couples issues, infertility, relationship problems, postnatal depression, life crisis, occupational stress and career change. I hold a current enhanced criminal record certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), formerly the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB).
I am also registered with Counselling Directory and am available for both short and long term psychotherapy in London, Sydenham, SE26, or at London Bridge.
I have spent over 20 years exploring and studying personal growth, recovery from addictions and inner transformation. In my work, I draw upon a broad spectrum of psychotherapeutic knowledge and tune my approach to match the uniqueness of each person I work with.
I am flexible in my theoretical approach depending on the particular needs of who I see. I can draw upon several tools and techniques from a number of schools and traditions including Psychodynamic, Humanist, Existential and Transpersonal. This, for me, is what it means to be an integrative practitioner so that I may best meet the needs of the people I work with.
I trained initially at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE), the largest training centre for integrative transpersonal psychotherapy in Europe, based in London. The five year postgraduate diploma programme is accredited by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). The CCPE is also a member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). I qualified as a clinical supervisor in 2019 after successfully completing the diploma in transpersonal and integrative supervision at the Psychosynthesis Trust.
Read my blog posts about general well-being and maintaining good psychological health here.
I undertook my psychiatric observational placement at South West London and St. George’s NHS Mental Health Trust which gave me an insight into the provision of secondary care services in the NHS. The Trust works in partnership with primary care, social care and voluntary organisations to provide high-quality mental health services in South West London and nationally. This built upon my knowledge of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), which is used by psychiatrists to diagnose psychiatric illnesses. However, whilst diagnostic criteria can have its purposes, I am aware of the dangers of labeling people, and I try to remain focused on getting to know the whole person in front of me.
You may contact me by calling my mobile telephone number 07852 407140 We can have a confidential quick chat which will give you an opportunity to check if we might get on with each other.
Feel free to follow my business Facebook page, for updates and links related to counselling & psychotherapy. (It is my social media policy that I do not accept friend or contact requests from former or current clients on my personal Facebook page as this can potentially compromise your confidentiality and blur professional boundaries).
I also tweet on a regular basis as a business. Please feel free to follow me if you are interested in my posts, however, I will not follow you back. To do so might cause confusion around the purpose of the communication, whether it forms part of your therapy or not. Please do not use public ways of contacting me for personal enquiries for therapy (e.g. @replies or tagging), given the potential for compromising your privacy and confidentiality. The best way to make contact with me is by text, phone or email.
I also speak in the media on items related to addiction, social media, mental health and related news stories. See below for a recent contribution on Sky News.
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