About me
It can be challenging to be a young person or an adult today
It can be equally challenging caring for a young person.
I offer to:
- Listen without judgement
- Not share what we talk about with anyone - unless I feel there is a risk to someone
- Try to understand your situation and what it means to you
- Use my experience, training and compassion to help you express and understand your feelings
(You might not know what your feelings are… yet) - Help you understand what you’d like to do about issues affecting you
- Be open to any ideas you have about your therapy - how you think it’s going and if you think it’s time to stop.
- Meet face to face initially, then we can discuss other ways to meet that might work for you.
Counselling might help you:
- Get things off your chest
- Understand your feelings
- With your own ideas about what to do next
I don’t offer:
- Simplistic advice
- To tell you what to do
- To know all the answers (but I will sit with you and try to understand)
Training, qualifications & experience
- Individually Accredited Member of British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
- 8 years counselling experience both in charitable organisations and school environments (young people and adults)
- 17 years working in education settings
- MEd in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Children and Young People)
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
Often people want to talk about:
- Stress and Anxiety (social/ friendship/ family/ academic/ work/ school)
- Relationships
- Past experiences and their impact
- Questions about neurodiversity
- Bereavement
- Sexuality and gender (transitioning)
- COVID
‘It’s been worse since COVID’
‘I was fine during COVID - now I’m not enjoying my life’ - School attendance/ motivation/ bullying.
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Additional information
I can send you full terms and conditions via email.
When I work
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I currently work Monday and Fridays in Bedford.
Hopefully we can find a time that works for both of us.
