About me
Perhaps you are unable to see the way ahead, or feel that you've reached a milestone in life. Perhaps you're overwhelmed with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, or are going through a crisis. However things are today, counselling offers the hope that things really can change for the better.
The 'therapeutic space' is unique, as there is rarely anywhere in life where we can speak so openly without the need to please or pacify someone else. Where you won't be judged or told what to do. Where your words and feelings can be raw and unfiltered.
When you come for therapy, you stop having to solve things or go through difficult experiences on your own. You now have a time and place in which you can be real and no longer alone. You also have an ally in the therapist, a valuing and genuine presence, someone who wants the best for you.
In the therapeutic relationship we'll work mostly in the here and now, but the echoes of your other relationships are bound to show up in this one, as they probably do in all your other relationships. We may look at the past too and you'll be invited to explore whatever seems important and whatever has a bearing on the problems you've brought.
While counselling or therapy (I use the words interchangeably) can't undo what's happened, it can help you heal, see things in new ways, and find a way forward which may not even have been conceivable before.
As part of our work together (using my training in Eugene Gendlin's 'Focusing'), we may well include your body's response to the situation you're talking about. The body has its own perspective, which you may not be aware of, and can provide an essential source of information. We'll also invite in any intuitive responses you may have.
Therapy can be hard work at times and it does take courage - and so I have great admiration for all my clients, both present and past. Coming for therapy means that you aren't going to pretend that things are fine, when they aren't. You aren't going to just put up with things.
Looking reality in the face can be challenging, but it's often the first step which is hardest. Have hope and know that you are embarking on a long-established means of working through difficulties and creating lasting change.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm a BACP accredited counsellor and therapist with over 25 years' experience. I've worked with teenagers as well as adults, in rural as well as urban settings and for the last fifteen years I've had my own private practice in Bethnal Green, East London.
Qualifications:
Certificate in Online Counselling
EMCC Advanced Diploma in Coaching
Certificate in Focusing Skills
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, CPCAB
Certificate in Life Coaching
Combined Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory
MA, Oxford University
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
£75.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
If your financial circumstances become difficult during the period of counselling, I will do my best to make the sessions affordable for you, so that we can continue the work that we have begun.
When I work
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I work in London Wednesday to Friday and in Oxford on a Saturday. I also offer online sessions on other days.
Further information
I also offer coaching. That's both life coaching which is holistic and looks at the whole of your life, and also coaching for entrepreneurs and creative people.
