About me
Welcome. BACP accredited counsellor, with 25 years experience, offering safe supportive space for you to talk about what you need and be heard. Counselling sessions are via Zoom or telephone. £45..00 per session Bupa approved, also approved by other health insurance companies.
Are you going through a difficult time right now? Perhaps you are needing support during a bereavement, a trauma, for a relationship issue, personal issues, health issues, work issues?
Whatever brings you to counselling we can look at it together, in a safe compassionate way, for you to make sense of your experiences and grow.
Being heard in counselling can help you come to a deeper understanding and acceptance of yourself and of what matters to you.
Counselling aims to support you as you begin to come to terms with the unchangeable. Counselling supports you as you discover changes you can make, and that you want to make. Counselling supports you in putting these changes into practice in a way that these changes are sustained.
My Background:
I am experienced in supporting clients in many settings, including charities, hospitals, university, e.a.p. settings, I work collaboratively with clients as they work through whatever brought them to seek the support of a counsellor
I am experienced in working in many styles of counselling, including cognitive behavioural therapy, integrative, person centred, psychodynamic, solution focused, trauma focused counselling, acceptance and commitment therapy, compassion focused therapy and will draw on this knowledge if helpful to you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling for long term work
- Training in clinical assessments
- Training in brief therapy
- (one year placement within London Hospital,
to support above course, taking referrals from g.p.'s/hospital) - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Depression
(Examined training at Kings College London) - Trainings in Solution Focused Counselling
- Mindfulness training
- Acceptance and Commitment therapy Training
- Bereavement training - Cruse training
- Trauma and Recovery/working with personal trauma/road trauma
- Training in Neuro Linguistic Programming
- Training in Smoking Cessation/ten years experience working in this field.
- Training in telephone counselling (Fifteen years experience in this field)
- Training in understanding addictions/withdrawal processes/cycle of change
- One year training in group counselling/understanding organisational processes
- One year training in psychotherapy
- Nine month practical training in systemic/family counselling
- Trainings in Motivational interviewing
- Compassion focused therapy
Counselling experience includes supporting people within the voluntary sector; within a well known mental health charity, for an addiction helpline, within an e.a.p. setting, within a university setting. Supporting clients referred due to personal injury, working with client who self refer to my private practice.
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
£45.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
- £40.00 per session for OAPs and people on low income (Under £20,000 pro rata)
- BUPA Recognised. Provider Reference Number 30010343 (Referral through G.P.)
- AVIVA Recognised Provider Number 600083072
- Provider with other Health Insurance Companies Fees £50.00
- Also offer CBT/Integrative counselling support to Clients following Road Trauma and going through Personal Injury - Fees £50.00
Further information
Counselling premises have good parking facilities and are a few minutes from Three Bridges Station
