About me
Stressed, confused, alone with your thoughts? I can offer you a peaceful and nurturing space to offload and unpick what's on your mind. I am an experienced accredited person-centred counsellor and health professional, offering individual and couples counselling. I have worked for many years with vulnerable families, parents and children. Our lives are a complex mix of relationships, emotions and pressures, which are made more stressful and overwhelming by life events such as bereavement and loss, traumatic experiences and relationship breakdown. I believe that we all have the capacity and 'tools' within us to cope with what life throws at us, but this can be 'locked up' by how we have responded to past events and have then become dis-empowered and vulnerable.
Covid 19 arrangements - I offer phone or Skype sessions
Training, qualifications & experience
Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling
Registered Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Certificate in Person-centred Art Therapy
Registered Nurse, Registered Health Visitor
Counselling experience includes working with local hospice bereavement service, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and adults and young people with a wide variety of issues. Also couples.
I have worked with parent and womens groups, and delivered training and workshops to counsellors and education personel on working with children and creative therapies.
I have much experience in Clinical Supervision
Member organisations

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership

Accredited Register Scheme
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
First/assessment session £20
Counselling: £40 per hour
£50 per couple (1.25 hrs)
Reduced fees negotiable
Reduced fees for frontline staff
Fees for training days and supervision are negotiable
Concessions offered for
Further information
Rural location - own transport needed, no wheelchair access.
Home visits can be arranged in certain circumstances