Glenn Mower Counselling

Hello, thank-you for visiting my web site. I am an accredited counsellor offering short- and longer-term counselling for individuals and counselling supervision for therapists.

I completed a Diploma in ‘Mindful, and Contemplative Core Process’ supervision training (offered by The Karuna Institute, in Devon) in June 2023.

I work from The Centre for Whole Health, 12 Victoria Place, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 3BP (where I’m also a co-director) and also offer zoom sessions for counselling and supervision.

I offer in-person supervision from my home in Bedminster.

As of October 2024 I am available throughout the working week.

The way I work

I practice an integrative and transpersonal blend of counselling and supervision designed to best suit you. Maybe you sense you need a one-off or a short series of counselling sessions to address a particular issue or goal. You are may be looking for a longer explorative counselling experience or a refresh in the ways and approach to supervision.

The choice is yours to make and ours to lean in to and to try and accommodate. 

I am relatively active in sessions, meaning that our time together could often flow into an interactive experience where we share our curiosity, heart and wisdom and together create our journey in a unique way that is centred around you.

I have recently begun to honour more my forms of neuro-divergence (undiagnosed issues with the ordering of written words, bamboozlement around numbers and well masked autistic traits) and I continue to welcome and work well with others who experience similar ways of being.

Within sessions our aim can be to grow a relationship within the fields of compassion, spaciousness and clarity.

My personal contemplative, creative writing and meditative practices and my desire to live authentically and lightly upon this earth enhances my ability to be open, genuine and present within life and within relationship. 

I work within the ethical framework for good practice offered by my accrediting body (The British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy-BACP).

I am registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (number ZB499910) and work within GDPR and BACP ethical guidelines around personal data storage and confidentiality.

Costs

I aim to make my fees affordable and flexible, (while respecting my ongoing costs and expertise). For individual counselling I typically offer a rate of between £40-£60 for 50 minutes, depending on your income.

Those able to pay the fuller rate enable me to offer lower cost sessions for others.

For counselling supervision, my fee is £60 pounds for one hour and £80 for an hour and a half .

I offer you a focussed, spacious and co-created relationship where you can be compassionately heard and accepted.

I encourage and promote mutually developing and/or the strengthening of attitudes and ways of being that allow the growth of curiosity and gentleness towards ourselves and others.

I choose to believe that we all have an abundance of inner wisdom, peacefulness and resourcefulness which can be harnessed in the service of individual, group and planetary growth, love and greater wellbeing.

I appreciate that maybe we are meeting at a time when inner wisdoms are partially covered and distorted by suffering and painfulness and understand that at these times being unkind to ourselves and separated from the love and trust of others is common and serves some forms of purpose.

To be invited to connect and to gently journey through moments in another person’s life is a privilege. Together we have the potential to rest and seek refuge within in a unique exploration, clarification and potent discovery of the fullness of you. 

If this way of being and approach resonates with you, I’d be delighted to talk with you further.

I offer private counselling, on-line and via The Centre for Whole Health in Bedminster, Bristol and counselling supervision, on-line and in person from my loft space at my home in Bedminster Bristol.

I have recently retired from an 18 year role of being a counsellor for students at Bristol University.

I intend to offer more ‘Mindfulness’ and ‘Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes’ groups over the coming years.

Prior to counselling, I worked as a qualified social worker for adults over 65 who are experiencing mental health issues, and a senior practitioner for those experiencing drug and alcohol dependency, and who are living with HIV and AIDS. I have also spent 2 years volunteering abroad with Voluntary Services Overseas (helping develop a social work programme in Belize, Central America).

Counselling

Diploma in Mindful and Contemplative Core Process Supervision. June 2023

2003: Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (City of Bristol College & the Central School for Counselling and psychotherapy).
2012 : Counselling Accreditation (BACP).
2015: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) parts 1,2,3,4 (via EMDR Works).
2014 onwards: Various retreats and gatherings within various contemplative and Spiritual traditions (please ask if interested).

Other

1986: BA (Hons) Economics (Sunderland Polytechnic).
1993: Joint Diploma and Msc in Social Work (Southampton University).
2008:  Post Qualifying Award in Social Work (University of The West of England).
2008: Diploma in Creative Writing (Bristol University).

What refreshes me?

I love to meditate and gather with others on similar journeys. I also love to read, write poetry, prose and journal. I sing within a beautiful choir and enjoy being in a crowd watching football, being alone and within my solitude, and being with family and friends while living in a vibrant city of friends yet met.

Useful Links

BACP ethical framework

Centre for Whole Health:

Centre for Whole Health