We
are delighted to announce a new addition to the Curian Team in Anita Sarkar who
has joined us this month as our CBT and Integrative Psychotherapist. We
wanted to take this opportunity to share an introduction that Anita has put
together and also remind you of the remote therapy services available from
Curian, in addition to our face to face therapy services.
Introduction
My
name is Anita and I am an accredited CBT therapist registered with the BABCP. I
have also completed a postgraduate training in Integrative Counselling which is
accredited with the BACP. My training has enabled me to gain experience within
the voluntary sector, NHS and more recently the private sector. I have
experience working with a range of presentations such as anxiety disorders,
trauma, depression, bereavement, relationship issues, self-esteem and identity
to name a few, I have worked with adults as both an integrative counsellor and
CBT therapist and children from the age of 14 and over as a counsellor.
In addition to this I have 10 years’ experience in the education sector
as a teacher and college lecturer teaching a range of social science-based
subjects
Qualifications
Postgraduate
diploma in CBT
Postgraduate
diploma in counselling studies
PGCE
MSc
In Applied Psychology with distinction
BSc
In Psychology and Human Biology
Remote
Therapy
Curian,
via our accredited CBT and Integrative Psychotherapist and where required our
extended network, offers remote therapy and remote CBT to all customers at a
reduced fixed cost. Approximately a 24% reduction on standard face to
face CBT fees.
Therapy can be offered to anyone nationwide and will be provided via telephone or interactive video calling. Remote therapy is an effective tool to deliver Talking Therapies and is successfully utilised within the NHS, predominantly as part of their IAPT Services. It is particularly useful for those clients who may live in remote locations or for those unable to travel. Face to face therapy will still be available locally to your client, if preferred.
Advantages
of Remote Therapy
- Flexible in
that patients can receive telephone or video calling at times which suit them
- Save patients
time and money – no travelling to appointments
- Remote therapy
is not dependent on location and patients can be telephoned or video called at
home or elsewhere (at work for example in a lunch break) as most people now
have mobile phones
- Some
patients, particularly those with depression, may not attend face-to-face
appointments precisely because their symptoms (low mood, lack of energy, etc.)
make it difficult for them to keep appointments. Assertively maintaining
contact with patients dramatically improves treatment concordance and adherence
to therapeutic activities. This is far better than merely recording such people
as ‘Did not attend’ or even discharging them
- Costs for
therapy can be minimised as charges for therapist time over telephone/video
calling is less than face to face
Should you have any queries in relation
to our remote therapy or indeed any of our other nationwide rehabilitation
services, in the first instance please do contact our Business Relationship
Manager, Saffron Meese on 07495 780864 or email smeese@curianmedical.co.uk