About me
I am an experienced counsellor; 2026 is my 20th year practising (and my 17th year of private practice)
I am also an experienced EMDR practitioner (10 years experience)
I am an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy. I offer counselling and EMDR therapy from counselling rooms in Hove (160-162 Church Road), and also remotely, via MS Teams (or similar) and telephone.
I am committed to providing effective counselling, psychotherapy and EMDR therapy in a safe, confidential and totally non-judgmental environment.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Post-Graduate Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling awarded by the University of Brighton. This diploma is formally accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I am a qualified EMDR practitioner, having completed the EMDR Europe Association-accredited EMDR training (in 2016)
I also hold a Certificate in Duo-Counselling (an Integrative model of counselling couples & families, where the counsellor works either as an individual therapist, or works together with a colleague as a 'duo'). However, at the present time, I am not taking on new cases involving couples or families.
Additionally, I have also undergone formal training in drug and alcohol dependency counselling from a recognised organisation specialising in work in this field.
I am an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy and a Member of EMDR UK & Ireland, the UK's professional association of EMDR clinicians.
I am experienced in working with people with low self-esteem (low self-confidence), depression, anxiety, relationship issues (including those raised by infidelity, separations and divorce), drug addiction, issues arising from bereavement, and issues relating to sexuality/gender identity.
In addition to my counselling qualifications and experience, I have a Master's degree in Business Administration (City University Business School, London) and a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree from the University of Oxford, and I worked in the advertising and insurance industries before becoming a counsellor in my thirties.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £95.00
Additional information
An initial (introductory) consultation costs just £35. It typically takes 60-75 minutes.
My sessional rates for ongoing counselling are as follows:
- For 'in-person' appointments in Hove: £75 for 60-minute appointments and £95 for 90-minute appointments (many EMDR appointments are likely to be up to 90 minutes in length.)
- For 'remote' appointments (appointments via MS Teams - or similar platform - or via telephone): £60 for 60-minute appointments (except for Saturday appointments, which are £70)
Sessions last for 60 minutes - this is 15% longer than the sessions many counsellors offer (typically others' sessions are 50-minutes in duration) - meaning that five sessions with me is equivalent to six sessions with many other counsellors. This makes the sessions I offer more time-effective for you.
I will consider sessions of longer than one hour if that is your wish.
When I work
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Further information
My counselling approach is strongly informed by the humanistic school of psychotherapy pioneered by Carl Rogers (1902-1987). In essence, the Rogerian "person-centred" psychotherapeutic approach is that you, the counselling client, have all the answers to the problems in your life within you and that these answers can be unlocked by you with the help of an effective counsellor who really listens and who is empathic, real and totally non-judgemental.
I am experienced in working with people with low self-esteem (low self-confidence), depression, anxiety, relationship issues (including those raised by infidelity, separations and divorce), drug addiction, issues arising from bereavement, and issues relating to sexuality/gender identity.
