Team
Meet our therapeutic counsellors of varying approaches, skills and experiences:
Together, our counselling team brings nearly thirty years of experience in supporting individuals with a wide range of issues.
We offer both long-term and short-term counselling therapy within a safe, confidential environment at our practice locations in South East London and online.
Sharon Palmer (Director) MA, BA (Hons) MBACP (Accred.) MACC (Reg.) – Humanistic Integrative (CBT) Counsellor / Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor
Silverset’s vision and goal is the provision of an effectual and prosperous counselling service. The service aims to meet the needs of clients, from 16 years and older, seeking to talk with someone about their problems and issues.
Subsequently, having experienced the need to talk about pressing issues in the past, but where help was difficult to find, has personally been a great drive to help others in similar situations. Eventually, this prompted a pursuit in the study of psychology, which eventually led to qualifications in the field of counselling.
Sharon’s areas of interest:
Mental health & emotional counselling: adult sexual abuse in childhood; anger management; anxiety; bereavement counselling; depression; family relationship difficulties; issues with the self, including building self-confidence / self-esteem / self-belief. Also, life difficulties, life purpose and meaning, & stress. Clinical Supervision; Group Therapy; and Personal Therapy with focus on Trauma and Loss Coaching/ Mentoring; Life Coping Strategies; Christian Counselling; Active & Crisis Listening.
The aim is to help clients increase their self-awareness to find their true purpose in life. Then gradually working through issues, building on their self-worth, encouraging, and empowering them to work on rebuilding their lives to the full, while simultaneously discovering & maintaining meaningful and lasting relationship with self and others.
Evidently, clients find that by talking through emotional, psychological, or mental issues, with someone who is qualified and willing to listen with impartial ears, help them to release anger, stress, depression and or pain. Therefore, sharing through expressions of emotions is one way of feeling better about oneself, as it helps to raise awareness, build self-confidence and increase self-esteem.
A more fulfilling and satisfactory life is possible, once issues and goals are sorted out, using a range of relevant therapeutic skills and tools to identify and draw out clients’ inner resources (within their own time).
Sharon practices in Lewisham, working with other counsellors to provide counselling services online, reaching locations in London, the UK and further afield. Contact: 0784 762 0103
OUR ONLINE SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE VIA FACETIME, SKYPE, WHATSAPP AND ZOOM.
Joyce has several years’ experience in providing counselling services (post-pandemic) around SE London (Bellingham, Bromley, Catford, Lewisham & Orpington).
Joyce is qualified in CBT, Person-centred, Psychonomic; with skills in The Loss of Innocence; Hall of Mirrors; Suicide Prevention & Managing the Therapeutic Process, Transferences, & Disclosure.
She works with adults, young people and children from diverse cultural backgrounds, with a variety of issues, including addictive behaviour (food, sex, drug, alcohol), anger management, bereavement/grief & loss, childhood abuse (physical, emotional, sexual) communication problems, depression, self-image/self-belief and confidence issues, relationship & marital issues, mental health (bipolar, OCD, anxiety/panic attacks/) stress, and trauma.
Joyce’s main interest is the promotion of emotional health & well-being in a safe, non-judgmental & confidential space.
Joyce is available to meet new clients and can be contacted via our website email, main telephone numbers, directly on 0784 762 0103
Joyce Prendergast (Senior Counsellor & Associate) MBACP Dip. – Humanistic Integrative Counsellor
Marcia Reid (Senior Counsellor & Associate) MBACP Dip – Humanistic Integrative Counsellor & Supervisor
Marica is qualified in Person-Centred Art Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy.
She is an experienced counsellor and has worked extensively with clients dealing with substance misuse in a GP Surgery setting. She has a background in Social Services and her specialist areas are: Children in care, working in a Primary School and working with Adopted Families.
She currently works with children, young people, adults, and families, online (within Southeast London, especially the Boroughs of Lewisham, Bromley, and Kent, post-pandemic).
Her areas of interest: depression, bereavement, family issues, parenting, parental conflict, challenging children, domestic violence, self-harm, substance abuse, social anxiety, eating disorder, self-harm, negative thoughts, and DV.
Marcia provides a caring and supportive therapeutic relationship to clients, in a non-judgemental environment. She believes that the client holds the key by using their inner resources and her role is to facilitate and assist clients on their continuous life’s journey.
SUPERVISION:
Marcia is a qualified Counsellor and Supervisor for over 10 years, with a person-centred approach and incorporating the integrative approach in her supervision work.
She encourages and supports her Supervisees, to help them develop their skills knowledge and understanding to their full potential.
Supervisees are encouraged to adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework into their Clinical practice.
Working collaboratively with her supervisees, their counselling practice is reviewed in a caring empathic and non-judgemental manner.
Membership: BAATN and BACP
She has further qualifications in working with children, young people and adults who have experienced domestic abuse, child protection related issues and mental health illness.
Marcia can be reached via our website email address and main telephone numbers, directly on 0784 762 0103.
‘Steph is an accredited integrative qualified counsellor, who counsels individuals in her private practice. She is a registered member of the BACP and ACC. Working in collaboration best suit a person’s needs, Steph offers help with a variety of general counselling concerns and provides counselling in a calm, safe and confidential environment online.
Areas of interest: anxiety, bereavement, depression, panic attacks, post-abortion, relationship difficulties, shame, self-esteem, amongst others.
Taking the time to agree together, you have autonomy over the work done through listening, reflection, and exploration, where you can take positive steps towards change. Steph provides a non-judgmental arena to talk about what is going on in your life, creating a much-needed place to work through and discover your feelings and thoughts.
Steph’s private practice name ‘Let There Be’ (derives from the verse ‘Let there be light’).
Steph gives the opportunity for you, as the client, to decide what comes next…’Let there be’ stillness, peace, freedom, change, resolution, progress, space to think, or space to be you.
Steph can be reached via our website email address, main telephone number, directly on 0784 762 0103.’
Steph Pilcher (Associate Counsellor) MBACP Dip (Accred.) – Integrative Counsellor
Uchenna Okereke (Associate Counsellor) MBACP – Integrative Counsellor / Psychotherapist
Professional Details:
Uchenna has 10 years’ experience in working as a Counsellor/Psychotherapist. She practices counselling and a well-being Service in the London area (post-pandemic). Counselling/psychotherapy are unique ways of helping people and Uchenna feels very fortunate to work in this rewarding field, to see so many clients discover ways of resolving and manage life difficulties.
Most people seek counselling to make changes, embarking upon a journey of personal growth, which may sometimes feel challenging and at other times exciting and enlightening. Uchenna will support you throughout your counselling journey, showing care and attention, while offering you regular time and a calm confidential space to be yourself.
At the initial assessment, you can discuss any queries about therapy and how you can work together.
Her areas of interest: working with family and relationship issues, miscarriage, abortion, career/redundancy; emotional issues: anger, anxiety, depression, low mood, self-esteem, self-confidence, bereavement, sexuality; behavioural issues: abuse, bullying, discrimination, domestic violence; mental health conditions: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), self-harm, and trauma.
Clients I work with: Adults, Children, Couples, Senior, Citizens, Young People
Format of Sessions: Telephone, Online, Face-to-face (to be arranged with Uchenna)
Uchenna can be reached via our website email address and main telephone numbers, directly on 0784 762 0103
OUR ONLINE SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE VIA ZOOM, SKYPE, FACETIME, WHATSAPP.