Alan Madin
Member Status: Accredited Professional
Member No: NCS22-02406
Location: Lincoln
Now a Professionally Accredited counsellor, I first trained in pastoral care & listening skills as an instructor in charge of RAF students. I enjoyed the first course so much I did a further course the next year. Following this, I enjoyed a career in education before choosing to retrain and develop the 'supporting people' skillls I had used during this time.
Throughout my counselling I have remained working closely with St Barnabas Hospice. Here I have gained experience in pre-, and post-bereavement counselling, as well as working with both individuals experiencing life changing or limiting issues and their families. In both this and other work I have supported Employee Assistance Program clients with a wide range of issues..
My knowledge and understanding of wider counselling and psychotherapy theory and skills has been developed through combining my extensive education and training background with my counselling studies as a Training Manager for student counsellors. During this time I managed a team providing single session 'walk-in' therapy and mental wellbeing support; this led to my interest in brief therapy and my training in Single Session therapy with a leading authority in this way of working.
Whilst I remain a Person-centred Counsellor I combine all of my wider experience to work in an integrative manner; including 'Walk & Talk' therapy working outside the counselling room. I also value the more psychotherapeutic way of quickly alleviating the impact of trauma and abuse that my training in using Rewind Therapy, and more recently Flash Technique, offers. I have also trained in the different skills that online and telephone counselling require.
My private practice is therefore based on my understanding and skills gained throughout my professional counselling experiences, employments and ongoing professional development to inform my work with individuals across a range of settings and personal issues.
I have successfully supported clients experiencing impacts of trauma including PTSD & C-PTSD; this includes survivors of domestic abuse/partner violence, terrorist incidents, assaults and accidents. For this I use Rewind and Flash alongside my core person-centred training in a very effective pluralistic approach.
As an Employee Assistance Program counsellor I am experienced in supporting individuals with issues related to difficulties such as stress, remote working, workplace dynamics and burnout etc.
I have successfully worked with individuals suffering depression and also severe anxiety to both better understadn the process impacting on them and to help overcome these.
You can read more about the therapies I offer on www.lincspca.co.uk
I hold malpractice, professional indemnity, public and products liability insurance with Holistic.
I have an enhanced DBS and am registered with the ICO.
