This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am a highly experienced and qualified psychotherapist and couples counsellor with thirty+ years working in a variety of settings. I completed my training in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Minster Centre (UKCP) in 1991 and have been committed to my continuing professional development since then. I completed a training in Couples Counselling in 2000 and am a certified teacher of the Learning Love Institute. I provide a safe, respectful and confidential environment where you can work through your difficulties. I have a caring, sensitive and insightful approach, although I am not above challenging you a little if that seems appropriate!
Sometimes we seek therapy or counselling to deal with a particular event or experiences in our lives or to tackle specific symptoms or distress such as anxiety or depression. Sometimes, however, we simply lack energy or direction or feel a lack of meaning or joy in our lives. I work with whatever you bring to the session from a secure theoretical understanding, but also with the knowledge that each of us is an individual with unique gifts and individual solutions to his/her problems.
With couples, I take time to listen carefully to each of you, identify the issues and patterns that create conflict or impact your intimacy, and invite you into a space of deeper understanding and connection. I am comfortable talking about and exploring anything that is an issue for you, including sexuality, polyamory, jealousy, affairs, blended families etc.
I work with both couples and individuals, both short and long-term.
Feel free to contact me to have a chat on the phone or to make an initial appointment where we can explore working together. I practise wholly online.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BSc (Hons.) Psychology.
- Diploma in Psychotherapy & Counselling.
- I have thirty+ years of experience working in private practice, for the NHS, and for Avon Counselling and Psychotherapy Service.
- Member British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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
£70.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I charge £70 per session for individuals and £120 for couples. Individual sessions are an hour, couples sessions an hour and a half. Concessions are available for low income.
When I work
Both day and evening appointments available.
