Hello, I’m Diane Walker and welcome to my website. I hope the information I have displayed here will help you in choosing the right counsellor or supervisor for you. I am a qualified counsellor (since 1999) and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). I completed my first Supervision Certificate in 2006 and I am currently coming to the end of the Post Graduate Certificate in the Supervision of Counselling and in the Helping Professions at MMU.
I became interested in counselling about 15 years ago, when my employer sent me on a counselling skills course. Not long after that I was experiencing some difficulties in my own life and decided that I would try counselling for myself. Once I had found a counsellor who felt right for me, I was amazed at how useful I found it, to have that regular space, where I could get support and begin to make changes in my life.
As a practitioner I have always paid for my own external supervision, in addition to any provided by my employer – I have always valued the additional support and the freedom to reflect on my practice, that having external supervision gives me. I personally can’t imagine working without the support of a good supervisor and in 2006 I decided to do some formal training in Supervision, so that I could, in turn, pass on some of my experience and hopefully offer the same quality of support that I have received from my own external supervisors over the years.
My interests have evolved and developed over the years and more recently I have changed the focus of my private practice to concentrate on offering supervision, counselling for trainee therapists and brief therapy for employers and other agencies.
I am delighted to be practising in North Manchester, as this is where I was born, brought up and still live.
I became interested in counselling about 15 years ago, when my employer sent me on a counselling skills course. Not long after that I was experiencing some difficulties in my own life and decided that I would try counselling for myself. Once I had found a counsellor who felt right for me, I was amazed at how useful I found it, to have that regular space, where I could get support and begin to make changes in my life.
As a practitioner I have always paid for my own external supervision, in addition to any provided by my employer – I have always valued the additional support and the freedom to reflect on my practice, that having external supervision gives me. I personally can’t imagine working without the support of a good supervisor and in 2006 I decided to do some formal training in Supervision, so that I could, in turn, pass on some of my experience and hopefully offer the same quality of support that I have received from my own external supervisors over the years.
My interests have evolved and developed over the years and more recently I have changed the focus of my private practice to concentrate on offering supervision, counselling for trainee therapists and brief therapy for employers and other agencies.
I am delighted to be practising in North Manchester, as this is where I was born, brought up and still live.
Who Do I work with?
- Individual adults/adolescents (12yrs+) – referred by employers, solicitors, Local Authority or other agency only
- Trainee counsellors and psychotherapists
- Qualified counsellors and psychotherapists
- Other professionals working in any of the helping professions
- Counselling for trainee counsellors and psychotherapists
- Supervision for trainee and qualified counsellors/psychotherapists and others in any of the helping professions
- Brief Therapy (up to 12 sessions) for Employee Welfare Schemes, Solicitors and other agencies – including counselling, CBT, Stress Management and Anger Management
- I currently work 3 days as an NHS Mental Health Practitioner (since 2003) for Emerge, the 16-17 Community Mental Health Team, which is part of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), here in Manchester.
- In private practice here in North Manchester since May 2006 – working with adults and adolescents, trainee and qualified counsellors and other professionals working in the helping professions
- As a counsellor for Brook, a sexual health service for under 25’s
- As a counsellor for Rochdale Social Services in a Mental Health Resource Centre
- As a counsellor in a GP Practice
- As a counsellor for a voluntary sector bereavement support service
- As a counsellor for Marie Stopes International – counselling women seeking termination of pregnancy
