This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hello and welcome. Life can be hard for a range of reasons, and our impulse is usually to struggle on alone. Even to the point of being overwhelmed and feeling there’s no solution. Starting therapy can seem very daunting, but the therapist’s room is a place where your problems can be addressed in a unique way that’s impossible on your own. It’s a place where you can push the pause button on the hurly-burly of the world outside and settle and be heard and begin to see that there are solutions.
Your needs are paramount, and experience has taught me that an open, client-centred approach that can be adapted to suit your special needs is best. We work it out together.
I’ve worked for many years with depression, anxiety, relationship, work, family problems, poor self-image, stress, meaninglessness, alcohol, drug and food problems. The tribulations of modern life.
I’ve been a therapist in both private practice, and residential and day-care clinics, am BACP Registered and adhere to their ethical guidelines. My practice is in Ham and I can offer therapy on Zoom if preferred.
Problems can be obvious and easy to see, but also sometimes difficult to recognise and impossible to share. Time has taught me to tailor my approach to the individual client's need, whether it be short term for solving specific problems or longer-term for deeper change. I can draw on CBT, Transactional Analysis, Attachment, developmental and existential models, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, and of course, common sense. I also have extensive experience in the field of substance abuse and addiction.
We live in stressful times. Relationships, separation and loneliness, work issues, increasing dependencies on substances or obsessive behaviours, anxiety, isolation, poor self-image, and a sense of meaninglessness are features of modern life I see in my consulting room again and again. Therapy is a safe place where problems can be detected, understood, and worked on. Sometimes our problems are external; sometimes they are blocks within us that throw up the same old difficulties again and again. Good therapy can help you develop the skills to recognise and deal with problems yourself.
Therapy is a process of discovery and liberation, that often leads to unexpected things. Whatever, current problems don't necessarily have to stay the way they are.
I work from a small quiet consulting room that looks out onto trees and the sky over Ham. Very calm.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a Masters Degree in Psychology and Counselling.
Registered member of BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists)
I am also certified in CBT approaches and in Mindfulness Stress Reduction approach.
I consistently attend CPD (Continued Professional Development) courses and workshops in approaches I believe are useful to addressing the needs of my clients.
I have worked with individuals and groups on a range of problems: social and general anxiety disorder, compulsive sexual behaviour, relationship problems and break-ups, work stress, shame-based self-imaging, low self-worth, lack of confidence, reactive depression, existential sense of meaninglessness, isolation and general relational difficulties.
I also have extensive experience working with various addiction problems.
I have worked as a visiting counsellor at:
- Promis Residential Counselling Centre in Kent.
- Promis Halfway House and Day Care centres in London.
- SHARP Therapy Centre London.
I have been a sessional therapist at:
- Roehampton Priory
- Capio Nightingale Psychiatric Hospital in central London
- The Recovery Centre, Belgravia
I have facilitated private group therapy and also worked privately with individuals struggling with a variety of disorders and difficulties: depression, anxiety, lack of confidence, relationship problems etc. Also drugs, alcohol, gambling, eating and other addictive or compulsive disorders, including sexual compulsions.
Alcohol, sex and to a degree moderate use of some drugs can relax us in a stressful world. However, sometimes these habits exercise a morbid grip on the individual and reach the tipping point of addiction. Intervention can challenge this progression, or therapy can help recover from these sometimes life-wracking difficulties.
Member organisations
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 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60 per one hour session. Cash, card or transfer.
I'm afraid I don't deal with insurance.
Free initial 15 minute (or so) consultation by phone or Zoom.
The consulting room is a quiet pleasant room overlooking trees and the sky over Ham.
When I work
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Weekday day time and evenings. Last session commences at 8pm.
Further information
Life-experienced. Before training as a counsellor, I was an actor and occasional writer in film and television for many years. I was also briefly a visiting lecturer in the arts department of a London university. Therapy is enriched by other life experiences and is one of the few professions where ageing is an advantage.
