About me
Welcome and Hello, and thank you for visiting my site — I’m really glad you’re here.
[please initially email me through the counselling directory link, as i don’t take calls from with held numbers]
I’m a qualified, accredited counsellor and psychotherapist (MBACP) offering online counselling and psychotherapy across the UK. I have over 20 years of counselling experience and more than 40 years in the caring professions, beginning my career as a nurse before moving into mental health and emotional wellbeing.
I provide a warm, safe, and confidential online space where you can talk openly, make sense of your feelings, and explore positive change — all from the comfort and privacy of your own home.
My approach is integrative, which means I draw on a range of therapeutic methods to suit you as an individual. Together, we’ll explore your goals and decide what approach feels right for you.
I’m an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) and a member of the Person-Centred Art Therapy Association (P.C.A.T.A), working to their ethical and professional standards.
This is your “Time 2 Talk” — a space to feel truly heard, understood, and supported without judgement.
About Me
I began my professional life in nursing, and the values of compassion, empathy, and respect continue to guide everything I do. Over the years, I’ve worked in a range of counselling settings, including:
Private practice for over 25 years
A local hospice, supporting people and families through illness and loss
Heads Together, a youth mental health charity
The Lucy Rayner Foundation, supporting people affected by mental health challenges
I believe the relationship between counsellor and client is central to growth and healing. In an online setting, this connection remains just as powerful — allowing therapy to be accessible, flexible, and deeply personal.
My Approach
I work in a humanistic and integrative way, drawing from:
Person-Centred Therapy (Carl Rogers)
Gestalt Therapy
Transactional Analysis (TA)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
I also use creative and expressive approaches, such as art and body awareness, to help explore emotions that can be difficult to put into words.
I trained at Wealden College, graduation with a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and certificates in Transactional Analysis.
How Online Counselling Can Help
Online counselling offers the same benefits as in-person therapy, with the added flexibility of attending sessions from your own private space.
It can help you to:
Understand and manage emotions and stress
Explore repeating patterns or difficult relationships
Release bottled-up feelings
Build confidence and resilience
Feel truly heard and supported
Given the right support, we all have the capacity for healing and change.
Training & Qualifications
Diploma in Integrative Counselling (Wealden Institute)
BACP Accreditation (2014)
Certificate in Person-Centred Art Therapy
Trauma & Loss Training
Foundation in Counselling
Certificate in Bereavement Counselling
Transactional Analysis 101 & TA Foundation
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Couples Counselling
Stress & Anxiety Management
Coercive Control Awareness
Autism Awareness
Professional Memberships:
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP Accredited)
Person-Centred Art Therapy Association (P.C.A.T.A)
Areas I Work With
I offer online counselling for adults, young people, and couples across the UK for a wide range of issues, including but not limited to
Anxiety • Depression • Bereavement and Loss • Relationship and Family Issues • Stress • Anger • Low Self-Esteem • Trauma and PTSD • OCD • Coercive Control • Health Anxiety • Autism • Work-Related Stress • Personal Development • Pet Bereavement / Companion Loss
If you’re unsure whether I can help, please contact me for a free initial 10 minute chat
Sessions & Fees
All sessions are held online via Zoom or WhatsApp video.
Individuals: £60 per 50-minute session
Couples: £120 per 60-minute session
Free initial 10 minute telephone or video consultation
Concessions: may be discussed with student counsellors
Payment: PayPal or bank transfer before session
Counselling provides a safe and confidential space to explore what’s happening in your life, understand how your past may influence your present, and move toward meaningful change.
If you’d like to find out more or book a free introductory chat, I’d love to hear from you.
i also offer supervision for counsellors, please contact me to make an arrangement
💬 Online Counselling & Supervision Available UK-Wide
📍 Based in Caterham, Surrey (Online Practice Only)
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma In counselling Integrative (Wealden Institute)
BACP Accreditation 2014
Person-Centred art therapy (cert)
Trauma & loss
Foundation in counselling
Bereavement Cert
Transactional Analysis 101 & TA Foundation
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Couples counselling
Stress & Anxiety management
coercive control
autism awarenes
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Health anxiety
- Low self esteem
- Jealousy
- Body image
- Self harm
- Childhood issues
- Couple counselling
- Lesbian and gay
- Coercive control
- Children, adolescents, adults and elderly
- Learning disability
- Personal development
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pet bereavement / companion loss.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
regular fee structure for private clients
£50 Individual daytime appointment (50 minute session) before 5pm
£100 Couples (60 minute ) daytime
By arrangement I accept paypal.me payment before the session or by bank transfer
Please ask for more details
When I work
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I currently have daytime appointments on mon & Tuesday please ask for my availability.
Further information
Talking about your problems in a safe and confidential environment with a qualified, non-judgemental counsellor can help you to make sense of how you are feeling and even enable you to explore how your past experiences and unexpressed feelings may still be affecting your current situation(s), and help you to recognise your strengths and resources to help you to make and implement any changes you choose to make, supported by me in the therapeutic relationship.
Some of the things People come to talk about are
- Bereavement
- Anger management
- Relationship issues
- Child related issues
- Anxiety and many other issues.
- Covid 19 Trauma and losses
