Rob Fickling

Rob Fickling is a relational Counsellor with a BA(Hons) in Integrative Relational Counselling form Middlesex University and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, having completed the 3-year professional Somatic Experiencing training with SOS Internationale. He works in private practice at The Awareness Centre in Clapham. Rob is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the UK Somatic Experiencing Association (SEA UK), abiding by both their frameworks for ethical practice and has regular professional supervision to support his work.

Rob offers a warm, supportive, non-judgemental and calm space for clients to explore what is bringing them to therapy. He has a relational approach, believing that the quality of the relationship between therapist and client is most important in supporting them when they are in difficulty or distressed. He works collaboratively with a range of therapeutic techniques to help clients to learn more about themselves, reconcile present and past difficulties, and find new ways of moving forward.

Rob supports adults with a wide range of issues including anxiety, anger, relationship difficulties, low self-worth, depression, bereavement, compulsive behaviours/addictions, historical abuse and PTSD. He has a particular interest in helping clients resolve historical trauma that is negatively affecting their lives and relationships today. He can also support clients with syndromes such as ME, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia.

Somatic Experiencing is a highly effective body-oriented approach to relieving the physical, emotional and psychological effects of acute stress and PTSD. By accessing the body’s innate capacity to self-regulate, the stuck survival fight/flight, freeze responses associated with traumatic stress can be gently released, allowing a dramatic reduction of traumatic symptoms, without the distress of reliving the events themselves. This is particularly helpful where clients have impaired or blocked memory of what happened to them, but find themselves being ‘triggered’ and hypervigilant in their daily lives today.

Rob has completed additional training in mindfulness-based stress reduction and assists on Somatic Experiencing trainings. He has previously worked as Clinical Manager at Help Counselling and in placement for the NHS delivering front line counselling services.