About me
Hello! I’m an experienced therapist offering a warm, relational approach to help you navigate life’s challenges. Whether you’re struggling with stress, relationship issues, low mood, anxiety, food-related concerns, or past traumas, I’m here to support you in a safe and non-judgmental space. I believe in working alongside you at your own pace to find meaningful solutions that fit your unique needs. My sessions are offered at £60-80 per hour, and I work with adults and teenagers both remotely and in person.
Difficult relationships with others and challenging traumatic events have a huge impact on our mental and physical health. Often we deal with these by distracting ourselves and numbing these uncomfortable feelings. I help clients process and work through these feelings in a safe and nurturing environment. This has proven to be much healthier than leaving them stuck and entrenched in the mind and body. Unhelpful coping mechanisms are very common and include repeating negative patterns and punishing ourselves in other forms. I can help you to step out of these behaviours and become more of your authentic happier self again.
I have vast experience in supporting clients with their relationship with food, body image and exercise especially. Many of us cope with difficult feelings and relationships by punishing our bodies, perhaps through controlling our food and exercise habits. Through my work, I have found that the power of a safe and healing space to talk, and a supportive therapeutic alliance with a professional can be life changing. I encourage clients to nourish instead of punish their bodies and then address the root issue of the painful feelings.
Eating distress and low self esteem are very common, especially in young people, and can escalate very quickly in to more serious eating disorder type behaviours. In my experience, early intervention is of the upmost importance, but a therapeutic intervention at any point will be very helpful. I have found that in a lot of cases the eating distress, controlling behaviours and rigidity are often somebody's solution to painful feelings and difficult relationships. I take a holistic and sensitive approach to support somebody in their battle. One of my most successful treatment plans involves allowing the mind and body a safe space to heal and rest, whilst looking deeper in to the root causes and beliefs beneath.
I have worked within schools and NHS settings for over 10 years, working with a wide range of clients with a variety of other issues also. These have been a mixture of short-term contracts of 6-8 sessions and longer term psychotherapy for up to 2 years. Presenting issues I have commonly worked with include self confidence, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, bereavement and life adjustment amongst many others.
I work in an Integrative Person-Centered Holistic approach using a variety of Developmental, Somatic and Psychological techniques. My core training is in Transactional Analysis and I am especially interested in Attachment Theory. Both modalities have a huge impact on our our relationship with ourselves and everyone around us and are so important for positive mental health. I use these frameworks as they provide a very accessible structure and are easily understood. The techniques I use, can therefore be implemented easily and are very effective.
I really enjoy helping people through a warm relational approach and guide them to understand themselves better and then show them the tools that can help facilitate them to continue in a more positive way on their journey through life. I resonate highly with the effect of trauma on the nervous system and body and have recently began to implement breath work and emotional regulation tools to help calm the mind and body. I am a qualified yoga and meditation instructor as I find that powerful feelings and emotions are felt and stored within the body and need to be released in order to heal. Together with talking therapy, great and fast results are seen.
I am affiliated with AVIVA and Private Patients.
I look forward to hearing from you soon and helping you create a brighter future
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
BSc Hons Psychology; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne,
PG Dip Psychotherapeutic Counselling for Children and Young People
PG Dip Therapeutic Counselling for Adults
Training
200 hour Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation Instructor
Advanced Master Program on the treatment of Trauma- Ruth Buczynski
Working with Eating Disorders, Polyvagal Theory, Emotional Focused Therapy, Counselling Tutor
Working with Relational Trauma- Carolyn Spring
Personality Needs, Adult Attachment Theory, Reparenting Core Wounds - Personal Development School
COVID-19 Remote Counselling -Kate Anthony
BACP- Working with Risk
NCPTT -Using CBT for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
BACP- Emotional Issues around Over-Eating
Jesmond Therapy Centre- Working with Schizoid Personality Disorder, Working with Self harm
Speaker and attendee at ‘Rethink’ Pastoral Conference, Speaker at Annual Nurse’s Conference, Royal Grammar School
Attendee at ‘Blood Brothers and Ugly Sisters’ Conference at Didcot Civic Hall. Oxfordshire
The Northern Guild Training- Transactional Analysis, Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Creative Methods and Story Telling, Child Development and Script, Imagery, Brief Focal Therapy, Advanced Reflexivity, Dream Analysis, Sand Tray, The Child Within, Safeguarding, Ethical and Legal Guidelines
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Fees
£65.00 - £75.00
Free initial telephone session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Free telephone consultation
£60-75 per 50 minute session
Discounts possible for block bookings
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Daytime and evening appointments available
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