About me
People choose to come to counselling for many different reasons.
You may be experiencing difficult feelings without knowing, or understanding why. These feelings might include things like anxiety, depression, helplessness, confusion or panic.
You might be struggling to cope with a recent sad or traumatic experience, or a difficult set of circumstances that you are going through at this particular time in your life. Or you might be finding it difficult to come to terms with past experiences, or understand why such experiences continue to impact on your life today.
You may want to focus on yourself and your sense of who you are or you may want to talk about relationship issues, or your role within your family, friendships or workplace.
Or perhaps you have just reached a point where you want to start to take more control over your life and to change repeated patterns that you realise that you keep falling in to.
Whatever your reason for coming to counselling you will be heard, accepted and treated with respect.
My interest and focus is in you as a person rather than the "problem" that you may feel you are bringing. Within this context I work with a wide range of issues.
I have over 20 years experience of working as a counsellor and psychotherapist, and an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I offer professional and confidential individual and couples counselling in Goldington Road, Bedford.
In addition to my work in private practice I have wide experience of counselling within various organisations and charities.
My core training was in both Psychodynamic and Person Centred Counselling. I recognise the importance of continued professional development and of keeping up to date with advancements in the counselling field and have continued to build on my core training since. This includes specific training in the following areas: Eating Disorders, Obesity, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Short Term Therapy, Post Adoption Counselling.
I am trained to Level II in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy which recognises the link between body and psychological issues.
I am also a Registered Adoption counsellor under the Adoption Support Agency Regulations (2005) which means that I can work with clients on any issues to do with adoption.
Please feel free to look at my web site for more information.
Training, qualifications & experience
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Developmental Injury- Institute of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy - 2018
Advanced Certificate in Couples Counselling - 2015
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma - Institute of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy - 2015
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling - University of Hertfordshire - 2005
Certificate in Humanistic Counselling - London Gestalt Centre - 2003
Additional specific training in: Adoption, Eating Disorders, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Obesity, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
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
Adoption
Assertiveness
Changes in family / home situation
Childhood experiences
Loss
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
£50 for individuals and £55 for couples
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