Freddy Weaver

Experience

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  PROMIS Recovery Centre

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Addictions Counsellor
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  Farm Place Rehabilitation Centre

  Nov 2007 - Jun 2008

  Addictions Counsellor
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  The Priory Clinic

  Jun 2008 - Jun 2010

  Addictions Therapist
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  The Swan Project

  Nov 2011 - Jun 2013

  Assessment Co-ordinator and Group Therapist

  Charitable Counselling Service

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  Kinergy

  Jan 2012 - Oct 2012

  Group Therapy Co-facilitator

  Kinergy is a professional, confidential counselling service for survivors of sexual abuse and/or rape.

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  Private Integrative Counselling Practice

  Apr 2012 - now

  Integrative Counsellor

  I am interested in how attachment and trauma may influence patterns of behaving and thinking, and how mindfulness, insight, reflectivity, and embodiment can help clients move beyond self-defeating defences towards their goals. I have been greatly influenced by Rogerian counselling, holding to the belief that I am here to assist clients to access their own innate wisdom. From experience I also know that entrenched behaviours benefit from practical input, boundaries and client-specific guidance. I've found that lasting change requires more than intellectual insight, so increasingly incorporate interventions that help clients integrate their awareness into energetic shifts. Creative expression, embodied experiences and mindful approaches all assist this movement towards wholeness. Show less

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  THE SOUTHMEAD PROJECT LIMITED

  Jul 2013 - Feb 2015

  Specialist Abuse Counsellor

  Assessing clients, conducting year-long weekly therapy for clients affected by trauma, co-facilitating the weekly trauma recovery group, holding the fortnightly supervision peer group and line management for voluntary counsellors.

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  The Kusnacht Practice

  Mar 2016 - Oct 2016

  Case Manager

  Providing residential therapeutic support to individuals undergoing intensive psychological, nutritional and physical treatment.

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  Brevin Healthcare

  Nov 2016 - Jan 2017

  Integrative Counsellor

  Intensive therapy for individuals receiving residential treatment in specialist settings.

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  Write To Freedom

  Mar 2017 - now

  Integrative Counsellor

  I occupy a psychotherapy role within the charity, with particular responsibility for tending to trauma. Write to Freedom supports people in addiction recovery through wilderness experiences, creativity, exploring personal narrative and rites of passage.

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  The Hearth Retreat

  Jan 2022 - now

  Director

  I combine my interest and experience in providing counselling, addiction treatment, trauma resolution, nature connection, and ecopsychology to support clients' return to presence, balance and wholeness. I work online, in Devon in the therapy room and nature-based locations, and provide bespoke residential eco-therapy intensives at the natural setting of the Hearth Retreat, near Totnes, Devon.