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Counsellor ProfileMy interest in Counselling and Psychotherapy spans 35 years experience of working with people in a wide variety of different settings. Throughout these years, my passion and motivation has been to support people to build and sustain satisfying, healthy and effective relationships with themselves and others and achieve their desire to live rewarding and fulfilling lives.I have 20 years experience as a Human Resources Manager, Company Training & Development Manager and internal Organisation Development and Change Management Consultant working for European and American blue chip multi-national fast moving consumer goods and IT companies. During this time many people in corporate business told me that they felt dissatisfied and unfulfilled both personally and professionally with their working lives despite the best efforts of the organization to provide them with appropriate training and development. As a result I became interested in designing approaches that supported individuals learning and development and enabled them to work effectively with others. I also have 10 years experience of running my own Human Resource Consultancy which I started with the aim of bringing psychology to business in a useable form. I wanted to recognise the unique contribution of human beings to the creation of organisational success and to encourage people's ability to work together through valuing and utilizing individual differences. I could see that many of the attitudes, values and beliefs, behind humanistic psychology seemed directly applicable to resolving the personal and professional development issues facing people in organizational life. I was fortunate to discover psychotherapy in 1985 through my need to resolve some of my own personal dilemmas where I found it to be, initially supportive, challenging, life changing and then life enhancing. As I grew to know and understand myself better I decided that I would like to develop both personally and professionally in this field. I began my professional training as a psychotherapist in 1990.I started my private practice working with individuals in 1991 and from 1998 onwards have also worked with couples, parents, families and groups on a range of issues listed later on this webpage. As someone with experience of bringing up my own autistic child, in the last 8 years I have developed a particular interest in working with families who are coming to terms with the changes to their lifestyle, relationships and expectations resulting from a diagnosis of a life long learning and/or development impairment. I also provide clinical supervision for practicing counsellors and psychotherapists and coaching, mentoring and training for all those with ongoing responsibility for others as part of their work. As a practitioner, I work with, and have extensive experience of, a variety of humanistic psycho-educational and experiential techniques. My approach is therefore essentially integrative. This means that I use a wide range of techniques and diagnostic models from both traditional and modern psychotherapeutic disciplines. The foundation of my work is in humanistic, existential and formative psychology. Formative psychology as pioneered by Stanley Keleman at the Centre for Energetic Studies in Berkely California is my main focus of professional study, my theoretical frame of reference and forms the basis of my therapeutic work. I work with individuals, couples and groups to discover how we embody our experience and through visualization, expression, bodywork, and cognitive tools & techniques, help to reorganise attitudes and behaviours that are formed/influenced by our thoughts, feelings and physical (somatic) patterns. I view the individual as a whole person and emphasise working directly with that person's experience as a basis for self knowing, and recognises the capacity of individuals to heal themselves and give shape and value to their lives. My work is concerned with the development of human potential - not in an idealised form but in the development of each individual's potential to become what we may become. All of my psychotherapy is experiential as well as theoretical in content. It requires participation at a personal level. I believe that it is important to be in touch with our personal development as part of our continuing professional development. My work is always evolving along with my understanding of people. I set out to support my clients to work towards the outcomes they seek by creating a caring and informative learning environment in which they can heal, grow their resilience and learn to shape themselves and their relationships in new satisfying and fulfilling ways. I emphasise the integration of my client's therapeutic experience into their every day life. Working in this way allows me to be open to the needs of my clients and to be able to respond appropriately. It is part of my humanistic belief that therapy can be a humanising process for both the client and the therapist, and that the receptivity, emotional responsiveness and level of personal skill of the therapist is as relevant to the therapeutic relationship as the theoretical frame of reference or the techniques they employ. The relationship between client and therapist is more important than the professional approach of the therapist. Techniques, important as they are, remain secondary to good contact and communication. I recognise that individuals will have their own inherent approaches to learning and change so it is important to be eclectic and chose an approach that 'fits' with the clients needs and circumstances. I therefore set out with each client, group or workshop to do the best I can at that moment, maintaining my vision and integrity for that specific step. I am as passionate about humanistic psychotherapy and its value now as I was 20 years ago. My personal growth and development together with my ongoing involvement and training in humanistic psychotherapy has been organic, exiting and a pleasure. It has also required patience, hard work, dedication and soul searching, together with the need to find the time to understand and assimilate my experiences in order to bring about a deeper, more meaningful way to lead a healthy and satisfying personal life. This, in turn, has enabled me to develop my professional skills and earn my living doing something that continues to engage my natural enthusiasm and passion. The psychotherapy I provide today has therefore emerged out of my personal search. I did not consciously set out to plan this far ahead, rather I have found myself looking back and saying, "that's interesting - look what I have been doing and where I have come to in my journey"! Training, Qualifications & Experience (more info)I have over 20 years experience working as a counsellor and psychotherapist. My training has focused on behavioural psychology, Jungian, formative, gestalt, humanistic and integrative psychotherapy and person centered / psychodynamic counselling.I have a:-
Professional training
I also subscribe and consciously adhere to Spectrum’s code of ethics for my professional practice. I am committed to participating and involving myself without prejudice as to age, class, disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation or upbringing (class) Registration
In addition to my psychotherapy practice I continue to design and run numerous workshops and seminars through my business consultancy practice The People Partnership for organisations in the private, public and not for profit business sectors. Whether you want to be a psychotherapist, are already skilled at working with people and want to consolidate your experience, develop skills for use in your own work, or whether a future of working with people is a dream, my objective is to help you plan and achieve your professional goals by supporting you to work in a competent, professional, ethical manner. I believe that for us to work effectively with others, it is essential that we learn at an experiential level as well as understand relevant theory. For this reason, all of my workshops emphasise personal development. Working on ourselves affects our ethics, attitude, expectations of self and others, ways of working and choice of interventions. It is essential to keep working on our own issues as part of our continuing professional development and our responsibility to take working with others seriously. My workshop programmes have grown organically over the years and draw extensively from humanistic, existential and formative psychology. One of their strengths is that they are built on managerial experience, clinical practice and detailed monitoring and discussion of what makes people more effective in working with other people. Each workshop has a clear statement of aims and objectives, a balance of theoretical input, experiential learning and skilled handling of group process. I also understand that each of us needs to develop professionally in a different time frame and has specific training needs. I have therefore developed a flexible modular training structure that enables you to participate in developing your own programme to reflect your experience and pace. I believe there is something in my workshop based training programme that will interest you. The specific range of people related topics I offer covers:-
Areas of counselling I deal withOther areas of counselling I deal withI have an established private practice and extensive experience of working with individuals, couples, parents, families, children, young adults and mixed ongoing personal development groups on a wide range of issues connected to exploring and experiencing ourselves and others as a means to leading a more satisfying, healthy and rewarding lifeMy other areas of interest are:- I provide personal individual and professional group Clinical Supervision for practicing counsellors and psychotherapists. I also offer coaching & mentoring and training for all those with ongoing responsibility for others as a significant part of their work (e.g. nurses, social workers, probation officers, teachers, therapists, training and development practitioners /professionals. FeesMy fees are currently £65.00 per one hour session for individuals and £85 for couples/families unless we agree otherwise. I am willing to discuss my fee rate if you are unwaged or faced with particularly difficult financial circumstances.I increase my fees annually on September 1st each year by approximately £5.00 per session. Member Organisation(s)
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