About me
Starting counselling can feel like a big step. You may have been thinking about it for months, or perhaps something has happened recently that has left you feeling overwhelmed. Either way, you’ve found your way here.
I became a therapist because I had been a client for many years - since a child - and wanted to use the benefit of this experience to do things a little differently. For me, counselling work is best delivered by people who know struggle and uncertainty, and who know how daunting it is to seek support when it feels like nothing will help.
Over the past twenty-five years I’ve worked with people facing countless issues, but often with anxiety, depression, ADHD/ASD, relationship difficulties, bereavement and questions about who they are and how they want to live. What I’ve learnt is that every person’s story is different. Rather than trying to fit you into a particular model or diagnosis, I want to understand what your experience has been like.
The relationship we build together matters. I aim to offer a creative, thoughtful, gentle, accepting space where you can speak freely, explore difficult feelings and begin to understand yourself in new ways. I won’t tell you what to do, but I’ll stay alongside you as we make sense of what’s happening and look for a way forward.
I understand the desire for a quick solution - and sometimes these exist - but painful issues always require understanding to find the key to unlock change.
I want you to feel in the safest of hands; I have supported many, many hundreds of clients in different contexts. Whatever your concern, whether anxiety, sadness, mood-struggles, relationships, divorce, bereavement, loss, change, or indeed almost anything else, we will build a safe space to explore what's making you sad, worried, or holding you back so you move forward with greater clarity and certainty.
Let's talk soon - just a quick call, I am sure you will find this helpful.
I have a lovely office space about ten minutes' walk from Eltham station, close to the A2 and South Circular, but equally we can work remotely, or have a mixture..
Click on the link and book a free 15-minute conversation - online, in-person, or phone, whatever works best for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Professional Accreditation
BACP Accredited Register member
Qualifications
MSc in Therapeutic Counselling (2003)
Certificate in Clinical Supervision (2002)
Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling (2000)
Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Skills (1999)
MSc in the Sociology of Health (1997)
BA (Hons) Sociology (1993)
Alongside my formal qualifications, I have undertaken extensive continuing professional development since 1998, completing numerous specialist training courses to further develop my knowledge and clinical practice.
I also hold a current Enhanced DBS certificate and regularly complete Level 3 and Level 4 Safeguarding training in my role as a Safeguarding Lead.
Professional Experience
I qualified as a counsellor in 2000 after two years of clinical training and placement work. I continued studies to gain a MSc. in Therapeutic Counselling
From 2000 to 2003, I was part of a staff counselling team within a London university, providing counselling to university employees.
Since 2002, I have worked in private practice, supporting adults with a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties.
Alongside my private practice, I work as a Clinical Manager and Safeguarding Officer for a highly regarded voluntary-sector counselling service. My role includes clinical leadership, safeguarding responsibilities, and supporting the development of counsellors and volunteers.
I am also an experienced:
Clinical supervisor
Group facilitator
Trainer
Telephone and online therapist
Maintaining high professional standards is important to me, and I continue to attend regular CPD training throughout the year.
Areas of Interest and Specialist Experience
Over many years, I have developed particular experience and interest in:
Bereavement, grief and loss
Existential issues, including meaning, identity, dying and death
Neurodivergence, with a particular interest in developing more effective and compassionate therapeutic approaches
Wider Professional Contributions
My professional interests extend beyond the therapy room.
I have extensive experience in developing bereavement services and have been involved in a number of innovative projects and professional collaborations.
These include:
Serving on the Greenwich Council Emergency Planning and Liaison Group (from 2005 onwards)
Serving on the Greenwich Safeguarding Children Child Death Overview Panel until 2014
Working alongside Professor Colin Murray Parkes to organise the delivery the Love and Loss conference at the University of Greenwich in 2007
Contributing to the academic journal Bereavement Care
Developing therapeutic work within a prison setting
Creating an innovative model of therapeutic walking for bereaved people, an approach that has since been adopted by bereavement services across England and Wales
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I have a special interest in the following topics:
- Anxiety and Low Mood
- Divorce and the end of relationships
- Failing relationships
- Ambivalent and anxious attachment
- Esteem and the relationship with our inner-child
- Turning points
- Controlling and coercive abusive relationships
- Loss and Change
- Bereavement
- Being and Existential Terror
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 - £85.00
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