Ulrike Schmidt

Ulrike Schmidt (she/her) is a trainee counsellor, currently completing her final year towards the Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling at the Awareness Centre training school. She is a student member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is committed to working within the ethical framework, supported by regular supervision.

Ulrike is a good listener, providing a compassionate, reflective, safe and non-judgemental space where clients are invited to explore thoughts, emotions and lived experience, working collaboratively towards growth and solutions. She works collaboratively with her clients, adopting a dynamic and flexible approach, integrating techniques from humanistic person-centred and psychodynamic modalities, including gestalt therapy and solution focused brief therapy to suit each client’s unique needs and preferences.

Ulrike understands the multi-faceted pressures and microstresses bearing down on people’s lives. Over many years she has been supporting people, many of them refugees and migrants, as a volunteer and as part of her role in teaching young people and adults from marginalised communities. Listening, connecting, sitting with someone through their pain, accompanying, containing, helping to build self-confidence and sense of self-worth through making and creating has been at the core of her trauma-informed work in education for thirty years. She has worked with autistic children and adults, finding avenues of communication and mutual understanding.