Status: Self-employed Associate
Location: Remote (UK-based)
Hours: Minimum 6 hours per week

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About The Echo Society

The Echo Society is a leading UK‑based, lived‑experience‑led organisation offering trauma‑informed, specialist support for adults impacted by narcissistic abuse and coercive control. Working with this client group requires emotional steadiness, clinical nuance, and a deep alignment with Echo’s values of emotional safety, autonomy, compassion, and integrity.

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Founded in 2016 (formerly LNASG – The London Narcissistic Abuse Support Group), Echo provides:

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• Specialist online counselling for adults affected by narcissistic abuse, coercive control, and relational trauma, across the UK

• Psychoeducational resources, including a 6‑week recovery programme

• Workshops and outreach to build resilience and community

• Training for professionals

• Advocacy and awareness‑raising to illuminate hidden forms of domestic violence

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Our approach is grounded in lived experience, clinical expertise, and a commitment to emotional safety. Every aspect of the service — from intake to therapy to safeguarding — is designed with the needs, nervous systems, and healing journeys of those impacted by relational trauma in mind. We meet every client with empathy, validation, and non‑judgement.

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Our Values

Our work is guided by a clear, trauma‑informed values framework:

• Emotional Safety — creating spaces where clients feel secure, seen, and never judged
• Autonomy — honouring each person’s pace, voice, and choices
• Compassion — meeting every story with empathy and care
• Integrity — holding ourselves to the highest ethical and relational standards
• Collaboration — supporting one another through shared learning and reflective practice

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Our Specialist Therapeutic Focus

We understand the profound and often hidden impact of narcissistic abuse and coercive control. Our confidential online counselling service is specifically designed for adults affected by:

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• Narcissistic abuse

• Coercive control

• Relational trauma

• Adult children of narcissistic parent/s

• Narcissistic partners, ex‑partners, siblings, friends

• Narcissism in the workplace​

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We also support clients navigating:​

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• Post‑separation abuse

• Parallel parenting

• Child contact manipulation

• Family Court stress

• Legal abuse

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Every practitioner at Echo brings both robust professional training and a deep, embodied understanding of these dynamics.​

 

Who This Role Is For

This role is ideal for counsellors and psychotherapists who specialise in complex trauma and narcissistic abuse and want to work fully online within a specialist, values‑led service.

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We are particularly interested in practitioners experienced in working with narcissistic abuse, coercive control, C‑PTSD, and complex relational trauma in adults.

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This role is suited to practitioners who feel called to depth work — those who are emotionally attuned, steady, and able to hold space for clients navigating long‑term relational trauma.

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If you value autonomy, reflective practice, and collaborative learning — and are drawn to work that is relational, nuanced, and grounded in emotional safety — you may find a meaningful professional home at The Echo Society.

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You’ll work independently with clients while being supported through team meetings, group supervision, reflective practice, peer‑to‑peer connection, and steady one‑to‑one managerial support where needed.

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What It Takes to Work with This Client Group

Supporting those impacted by narcissistic abuse and coercive control requires:

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Trauma‑Informed Competence

• Understanding of PTSD, C‑PTSD, attachment trauma, trauma bonding, and nervous system regulation

• Somatic sensitivity and attunement to body‑based trauma responses

• Ability to work within Echo’s therapeutic frame (validation, pacing, psychoeducation)

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Relational Depth

• Capacity to hold space for identity erosion, chronic self‑doubt, shame, and survival patterns such as fawning or people‑pleasing

• Ability to manage therapeutic endings with steadiness and clarity

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Legal & Systemic Awareness

• Familiarity with the Domestic Abuse Act 2021

• Understanding of post‑separation abuse and coercive control

• Awareness that clients may also be navigating other forms of domestic abuse, including economic/financial abuse, isolation, and systemic coercion

• Ability to maintain clear boundaries around Echo’s non‑forensic remit (no legal letters, evidence, or court involvement)

• Awareness that Echo is not a crisis service and confidence in signposting appropriately

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Emotional Steadiness

• Groundedness, strong boundaries, and reflective capacity

• Ability to remain regulated in the face of complex trauma narratives

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Essential Qualities & Experience

Narcissistic Manipulation Tactics

• Experience supporting individuals impacted by narcissistic abuse and coercive control

• Understanding of manipulation dynamics such as the DARVO pattern: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender, gaslighting, stonewalling, withholding, silent treatment, triangulation, smear campaigns, push‑pull patterns, emotional invalidation/chronic invalidation

• Experience supporting clients navigating complex family dynamics, including adult–child and parent–child relational trauma

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Psychoeducational Recovery Approach

• Ability to integrate themes such as boundaries, shame resilience, grief, inner child work, and nervous system regulation

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Professional Standing

• Diploma in Counselling/Psychotherapy

• Registration with NCPS, UKCP (or equivalent)

• Commitment to ongoing CPD and reflective practice

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Clinical Competence

• Experience working with trauma, C‑PTSD, attachment wounds, and relational trauma

• Understanding of trauma bonding, fawning, and identity erosion

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Inclusion & Ethics

• Cultural humility and identity‑aware practice

• Strong professional boundaries

• Familiarity with GDPR and secure data handling

• Awareness of the ethics of lived‑experience practice

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Technical

• Private, secure space for remote sessions

• Reliable internet and digital competence

• Competence using secure, encrypted platforms for notes and communication

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All practitioners must work within their professional body’s ethical framework and UK GDPR.

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What We Offer

• Comprehensive induction, including a 6‑week psychoeducational training completed before or alongside initial client work

• Free group supervision and ongoing trauma‑informed support

• A collaborative, values‑led team environment

• Secure, user‑friendly online systems

• A supportive, emotionally safe environment that honours practitioner wellbeing and sustainable pacing

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Organisational Details

• Self‑employed, sessional role

• Minimum availability: 6 hours per week

• Minimum commitment: 12 months

• 3‑month probationary period

• Practitioners are responsible for their own invoicing and self‑employment admin, in line with Echo’s internal guidance

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How to Apply

To apply, please use our General Enquiries Contact Form and select “Counselling Role” from the dropdown menu.

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Once we receive your message, we will reply with instructions on how to securely provide your CV and a brief statement about why you feel called to this work.

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If shortlisted, we’ll request:
• Proof of professional membership
• Sample Therapeutic Agreement (to understand your clinical frame and approach)
• Professional Indemnity Insurance
• Enhanced DBS / PVG / AccessNI
• ICO registration
• Relevant CPD certificates
• Two professional references

 

We warmly welcome applications from practitioners of all backgrounds — especially those with lived experience.

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If this role resonates with you, we warmly welcome your application.

 

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