About Us

Clinical Director: Allan Turner MBACP Senior Accredited. UKRC Registered
Independent Counsellor and Psychotherapist.

Allan is an MBACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist with twenty-nine years experience as a counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor and has over 17,000 hours experience. He has also held senior roles with international insurance companies, was a Chartered Insurer and thus has a unique combination of commercial and clinical experience. He is particularly interested in couples-counselling, critical incidents and trauma, although his broad experience means that he has many areas of interest. Allan is a founder director of the company.

NEW for 2012! He has written on the subject of Person-Centred Approaches to Trauma, Critical Incidents and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Chapter three of "Client Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy". Edited by Janet Tolan and Paul Wilkins. This is a Sage publication

Director: Kate Stubbings MBACP Senior Accredited. UKRC Registered
Independent Counsellor and Psychotherapist.

Kate is also an MBACP Accredited Counsellor who has more than 7,000 hours of counselling and supervision experience gained with a broad range of clients which she acquired at Counselling Works and previously as a Primary Health Care counsellor within the NHS. Her long experience in business meant that she was able to bring exactly the commercial and counselling mix of experience the company needs to strengthen its executive team when Kate became a director in 2004.

Kate is coordinator of the Milton Keynes Rogerian group. These meetings are for Person-Centred Counsellors and Psychotherapists who are interested in exploring theory and practice. She formed this group in 2004 to give support, networking opportunities, learning and development, to person centred counsellors/trainees.

Director & Company Secretary: Angela Turner

Angela is company secretary and is responsible for most of the smooth running of our ‘technology confident’, expanding company. Her background in Education and standards assurance, as well as formerly being a counsellor with a well-known couples counselling charity in Scotland, has ideally equipped her for her current responsibilities. She is the first point of contact for those who enquire about our services. Angela is a founder director of the company.

All three of our Directors believe passionately in the values of Counselling Works:

To provide a high quality counselling service to all our clients
To ensure that the service is provided quickly and efficiently
To accurately assess the quality of all services the company provides
To be the counselling agency of choice for affiliate counsellors and private and corporate clients
To constantly improve the efficiency of the company’s operations by the sensitive use of technology
To provide high quality Training and Continuing Professional Development for the counselling community

As an Organisational Member of BACP we are bound by it's Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy, the Ethical Guidelines for Researching Counselling and Psychotherapy and subject to the Professional Conduct Procedure for the time being in force.

Counselling Works Ltd

Registered in England and Wales

Company Registration No: 4504404
Registered Address:

62 High Street, Stony Stratford

Milton Keynes. MK11 1AQ
VAT Reg No: 819 4533 14