Welcome. I'm Vicky Mould, the founder and owner of Azalea Counselling. I offer individual counselling for adults and work comfortably on a long or short-term basis. I now work exclusively online and over the telephone, with online sessions via Zoom, FaceTime or WhatsApp.
Many people come for counselling and benefit from the experience. Counselling can offer the safety and support to explore and make sense of your struggles, find your way through them and continue with a healthier or more fulfilling life.
If you're seeking counselling for the first time, it's important you find a therapist that feels right for you. The information I have provided here (and on my website) aims to help you in that process.
I offer a 60-minute consultation to explore counselling and establish if we could work well together. I am a down-to-earth, friendly-natured counsellor who can help you feel at ease.
If you'd like to arrange a consultation or ask questions before taking that step, you can email me or call or text my mobile 07729 193629.
As an experienced mental health therapist and bereavement counsellor, I can offer caring, compassionate and non-judgmental counselling for life concerns and challenges such as:
Loss and grief, including baby loss
Surviving sexual or domestic abuse
Depression, including postnatal depression
Anxiety, including panic attacks
Stress, including work-related stress
Low self-confidence and self-esteem
Loneliness or social isolation
Relationship issues or changes
Managing the effects of schizophrenia or bipolar
Trauma, including PTSD and BPD/EUPD.
Counselling can be a courageous step in all these experiences, yet I believe in mental health and trauma recovery and the unique potential you have within you. We can work at your pace to find your sense of coping, healing or wellbeing.
Practising person-centred therapy, I will work to help you feel part of a genuinely safe and supportive relationship. Sessions are confidential, and I trust you'll bring what feels important to you. Whatever you choose to explore in session, you will be valued, accepted, heard and understood.
Sometimes, it's hard to express yourself through words alone or move forward from struggles or concerns despite talking them through. I offer the option of creative counselling, such as using art mediums alongside talking therapy, and you don't need experience or skills in art to engage in this process. We can discuss creative counselling in our initial sessions - if you'd like to.
Counselling with me can offer relief, insight, hope and increased confidence and trust in yourself. My goal in our counselling is to empower you to make choices or changes you want to make.
There is lots of information on my counselling website - do take a look, as it will give you more of a sense of me and how I can work with you.
If you'd like to book a 60-minute consultation or ask questions before taking that step, please email me or call or text my mobile 07729 193629.
I hold a Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling, recognised by the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO).
I hold a Certificate in Crisis Counselling.
I hold an advanced-level Certificate in Grief and Bereavement Counselling, which includes complex grief, spirituality, long-term support, and child and adolescent loss and grief.
I qualified as a counsellor with a Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling.
I hold a Certificate of Higher Education in Counselling and Centra Counselling Level 1.
Further training
I have undertaken continuing professional development courses in the following:
Working with Trauma Triggers and Flashbacks
Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing
Trauma and the Body: Dissociation and Somatisation
Postnatal Depression Awareness
Domestic Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Autism Awareness
Journal Therapy and Art Therapy
Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Supporting Parents Through Child Bereavement
Mindful Mental Health
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults.
Experience
I have been a counsellor in Eastleigh and Southampton since 2011. I now work exclusively online and over the phone. I offer person-centred therapy for adults and have a specialist interest in bereavement counselling, mental health and domestic abuse counselling.
I take a trauma-informed approach to my work, including offering the opportunity to express yourself through art or other creative mediums. I access trauma training regularly as part of my continuing professional development.
As an Accredited Professional Registrant of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society, I adhere to their Code of Ethics. I'm fully insured and regularly consult a counselling supervisor.
I have been a bereavement professional since 2008 - initially as a trained volunteer for Cruse Bereavement Care, and now as a bereavement counsellor in private practice. I hold further training in child and baby loss, including the sensitive issues surrounding miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss and sudden infant loss.
I have a longstanding interest in adult mental health. Over the years, I have worked successfully with people experiencing the effects of depression (including postnatal depression), anxiety, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. In the past, I have been a Support Time Recovery Worker for Together for Mental Wellbeing and a Support Worker on an NHS psychiatric ward. I have also volunteered for mental health charities such as Rethink Mental Illness and Solent Mind.
I have personal insight into domestic abuse, and many years ago, I was a Helpline Volunteer for Women's Aid. In my counselling practice, I offer support to anyone who is impacted by or concerned about domestic abuse - irrespective of their gender, ethnicity or background.
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