Jackie Farmer
Training, qualifications and experience
I have been practicing as a counsellor since 2007 and a supervisor since 2014. As well as counselling children, adolescents and adults in a private practice and charity setting, I have experience counselling adults in a women’s hostel and children in schools.
Here is a list of my main qualifications:
- 2025 Part 1 EMDR for children and adolescents: Child Trauma Therapy Centre
- 2019-2022 Parts 1-3 EMDR for adults: Richman EMDR Training, fully approved by EMDR Europe Association
- 2018 Advanced Diploma in Eating Disorders and Nutritional Interventions: National Centre for Eating Disorders
- 2017 Diploma in Counselling Teenagers: Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education
- 2014 Level 5 Diploma in Supervision: Barnabas Counselling Training & CPCAB
- 2011 Diploma of Higher Education in Counselling: Waverley Abbey College
- 2007 Diploma in Christian Counselling: Waverley Abbey College
- 2004 Introduction to Christian Counselling: Manna House Counselling
I am a member of The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, hold a Certificate of Proficiency with them and am listed on their Accredited Voluntary Register. In addition, I am an accredited member of both the Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions’ and the National Counselling Society. I adhere to both the ACC Ethics and Practice and the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
As part of my Continuous Professional Development, I have attended courses with a variety of organisations including Deep Release, and I receive regular supervision for my work. I have recently embarked on EMDR training for children and adolescents and am training to become a certified child and adolescent trauma professional.
I have completed training to equip me to work online or on the telephone with clients and offer this service in addition to working face to face.
About the way I work
I offer a holistic approach, where your physical self, your emotions and thought life, the choices and actions that you make and your spiritual area of being (where wanted) is explored, with the view that if one area is experiencing difficulty, it can affect all the other areas of you too. The issues which you choose to bring to counselling will always be explored at your own pace.
As no two people are the same and what approach may suit one person may not necessarily suit another, I work integratively which means that I incorporate several different ways of working, including Gestalt Therapy, Psychodynamic Theory, Attachment Theory, Inner Child Work, Creative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Spiritual Formation, should the client wish for that. This occurs through a collaborative process, where the client makes their own goals for what they seek to get out of counselling and this is reviewed periodically. Any way of working is always offered and not compulsory to partake in.
I hold a current Level 2 Emergency First Aid At Work Certificate, through Train Aid (www.train-aid.co.uk/courses/emergency-first-aid-at-work).