About me
Therapeutic Counselling
Talking therapy offered from a psychospiritual perspective - a confidential space for connection; to talk, to explore, to be witnessed. My practice embodies an integrative approach that welcomes non-judgementally the full range of human experience, from the depths to the heights, and which fundamentally sees relationships as a tool for healing. Using CBT, psychodynamic, co-dependent and counter-dependent behavioural models, as well as the creative aspects of transpersonal psychology, issues such as addictions, anxiety, depression, and general inertia are empathically and curiously explored. Personal transformation can be achieved through stages of perception, interpretation, and self-empowered action, engaging the natural drive in all of us to heal and experience wholeness.
NVR
CAPVA (Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse) is a growing phenomenon, it describes a pattern of harmful, controlling, or abusive behaviour by a child or adolescent toward a parent or caregiver.
Throughout 2024/25 I have also worked alongside over 40 families, helping parent/carers reduce child/adolescent controlling, violent and abusive behaviour within the home environment. Using the NVR (Non-violent resistance) CBT model, behavioural issues are attended to with specific language skills, a pragmatic and direct approach, where boundaries are asserted and loving discipline maintained, where control of the other is let go and self-control engaged. Using NVR, expected behaviour is modelled rather than insisted upon, a middle ground found between old-authoritarian style parenting and over-accommodation, and a moral dimension encouraged from within the struggling child/adolescent.
This approach is transferable to all adult to adult relationships too, whether abusive or just strained, where communication is avoided or has become seemingly impossible.
I believe that within a negative or challenging experience lies the potential for growth, learning, and even a solution to the problem itself. It encapsulates the idea that what causes harm can also contain the means to heal.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified BACP registered counsellor. I hold a Masters in Psychosynthesis Psychology. Trained NVR practitioner.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Additional information
Fee negotiable - please contact me to discuss.
