Our Team
Dedication. Skills. Compassion.
We have a fabulous team of counsellors at Chapters and between us we're able to bring a wealth of experience and training to our client work. We are all full of personality but very down to earth at the same time, we share professional knowledge wherever we can and we attend ongoing professional development training to to enrich our practice. We all have separate clinical supervision to support our work to enable us to provide the very best service possible to our clients. It's safe to say that we all love our work as counsellors!!
Meet The Team
Sharon Lawrence
Founder, Mentor, Counsellor & Supervisor
Dip.Couns, Dip.Sup, MBACP (Snr Accred), SNCPS (Accred)
Sharon qualified as a counsellor in 2002 and began teaching counselling in the same year! She spent 7 years teaching in a local college before setting up Chapters in 2008, training counsellors independently for a further 15 years. She is a military veteran having spent time in the QARANC (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps) and has strong links with the uniformed services. She now balances running the business with seeing adult clients and couples, supervising other counsellors and supporting professionals in their roles through non-managerial supervision. She became BACP accredited in 2008 and Snr accredited in 2015.
Jane Dodds
Counsellor & Hypnotherapist
Dip.Couns, MBACP
Jane qualified as a counsellor at the end of 2009 after being a student in Chapters' first ever Diploma group! Previously Jane had been a trainer in retail and had an ideal set of skills to bring to the Chapters training team as well as counselling clients! As well as working with adults, Jane is trained to work with children and young people and has a broad range of experience working with different ages and issues. She has also gone on to train in hypnotherapy which has proved to be a valuable resource for people who want something different to counselling to address their specific issues.
Tara Waugh
Counsellor
Dip.Couns, MBACP
Tara qualified as a counsellor in 2017 and has continued to juggle her 2 worlds ever since - 1 life as a brilliant hairdresser and the other as a wonderful counsellor! Tara enjoys working with adult clients but does also have experience working with children too. She constantly rises to the challenges that come her way in all areas of her work. Tara has an easy to talk to, calm presence which is very helpful in the counselling room!
Kelly qualified as a counsellor in 2020. She continued to study and completed her Level 5 Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic Skills and Theory in 2021.
Kelly has experience of working with adults, children and young people. Kelly has a calm, warm and welcoming approach and counsels quite a few of our online clients. She's a very welcome addition to our team!
Kelly Carswell
Counsellor
FD Couns, Dip CBT, MBACP
Trainee Counsellor appointments
We currently have a student counsellor on placement with us at Chapters.
This gives us the opportunity to offer free counselling sessions to a limited number of clients who are willing to work with a trusted, skilled trainee rather than a qualified counsellor. If you may be interested, please contact Sharon by email sharon@chapterscounselling.org or phone/text 07389 065887 and we'll discuss further.