About Me
- focus, prioritise and resolve your problems
- overcome anxiety, depression and stress
- heal from past trauma
- understand yourself better and improve self-confidence
- trust yourself to make good decisions
- establish improved communication skills
- develop better relationships
- engage with life fully and lead a peaceful and fulfilled life
Experience
In addition to running a successful private practice, I worked for several years for a sexual abuse and rape counselling service, where I gained my therapeutic experience, providing counselling for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape and domestic abuse. Consequently, I am skilled at offering a stabilising, empathetic and sensitive approach for vulnerable adults and young people with complex and interrelated issues.
I have also worked within the field of addiction recovery, public and private sector, mental health support and volunteering for a child protection charity. It was these working experiences which lead to my interest in counselling.
In recent years, I now provide sessions for staff members of a number of local agencies and businesses and am affliated with Walking With The Wounded Veterans Charity and BUPA private medical insurance. My work also involves supporting university students in Hampshire, as a Specialist Mentor to enable them to achieve good mental health and well-being and to overcome their barriers to learning.
Professional Qualifications
- (2024) Master's Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Distinction)
- (2022) Bachelor’s Degree in Gestalt Counselling (1st Class Honours)
- (2022) EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) Part 1, 2, 3 & 4
- (2021) BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) Accreditation
- (2019) Diploma of Higher Education in Humanistic Gestalt Counselling (Level 5, Distinction)
- (2018) Diploma of Higher Education in Humanistic Gestalt Counselling (Level 4, Distinction)
- (2017) Certificate in Counselling Skills (Level 3)
- (2015) Basics of Counselling Certificate (Level 2)
- Child Protection and Safeguarding
- BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) Certificate of Proficiency
- DBS Enhanced Certificate
Professional Membership
I am a registered member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and The Hampshire Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (HACP). I work to the professional standards set out in the BACP Ethical Framework. To find out more about the BACP click here
I hold full public liability and professional indemnity insurance.
Natalia Hallam Counselling is registered with Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and protects client data inline with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For more information on ICO and GDPR click here. To read my privacy notice click here.
Ethos
My experience has focused on working with survivors of rape, childhood sexual abuse and domestic abuse, trauma caused by abuse remains my area of interest. Trauma, in one capacity or another is at the root of most human suffering and is often minimised and dismissed by society.
Whatever the experience there is hope for healing through the safety of a professional relationship and quality of presence often not experienced before. Complex emotions can be uncovered, explored and managed, leading to feelings of empowerment, resilience and freedom. Fundamental changes in the healing process.
"Relational trauma requires relational repair" (Karen Treisman, 2017)
Continuous Professional Development
- Medical Model Perspectives on Mental Health and Mental Disorder (2021)
- Bipolar Awareness Diploma (2021)
- Mental Health and the Body: Treating Trauma (2021)
- Intrusive Thought and the Inner Critical Voice (2021)
- Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice (2021)
- Working with Shame (2021)
- Dissociation and DID: The Fundamentals (2021)
- Working with Trauma in a Time of Trauma (2020)
- Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-Harm (2020)
- Trauma and The Body: Somatisation and Dissociation (2020)
- BACP - Private Practice Conference (2019)
- Pains, Parts, Illness and Identity: Somatic Psychology and EMDR Therapy for Chronic Pain and Illness (2019)
- Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing (2019)
- Sexual Violence Awareness (2019)
- Working with Relational Trauma: Dealing with Disorganised Attachment (2019)
- PARCS - The Safety Stage; Beginnings of Therapy (2019)
- Domestic Abuse Awareness (2018)
- Rape Awareness (2018)
- BACP - Children and Young People Conference: Working with Children and Young People in their World (2018)
- NSPCC - Child Protection (2018)
- NSPCC - Safeguarding (2018)
