Vision & Values

Oakwood Psychology Services takes pride in being a place where our service users, staff and trainees thrive in a professional, friendly environment. We offer learning experiences for all who are involved with our work, by providing therapeutic services that are responsive, flexible and ethical. Our vision is to do what we can to support a society characterised by compassion, connection, and fairness.

All practitioners adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions (2018).

The fundamental values of counselling and psychotherapy include:

• Respecting human rights and dignity

• Protecting the safety of all who use and provide our services

• Enhancing the quality of professional knowledge and its application

• Alleviating personal distress and suffering

• Fostering a sense of self that is meaningful to the person(s) concerned

• Increasing personal effectiveness

• Enhancing the quality and integrity of relationships between people

• Appreciating the variety of human experience and culture

• Striving for the fair and adequate provision of counselling and psychotherapy services