About me
This is a space to breathe, talk freely, and start to feel like yourself again. With a lifetime of experience including 30 years of using counselling skills and a Masters in Pluralistic Psychotherapy, I offer a space with you at the heart. I have worked in the NHS as a specialist mental health therapist, an eating disorders therapist, an addictions therapist and a trauma therapist. I am also a specialist psychotherapist in Neurodiversity. I’ve had my own registered mental health charity which was voted charity of the year, and worked as a therapist across a wide range of settings including being a counselling manager and a counselling supervisor. I’m a specialist therapist for young people, giving individual counselling and worked as a therapist in CAMHS and a school counsellor. I have also helped adults with a wide range of issues over decades, which has included anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, identity, work, chronic pain and many more. I am also a specialist therapist in neurodiversity.
My counselling work has been published nationally as examples of excellence in practice and my clinical work has been used nationally as templates of clinical excellence.
We’ll make sense of what’s going on inside your heart and mind, at your pace. If life feels heavy right now, you don’t have to carry it alone.
Let’s work together to turn things around - one step at a time.
Approach
Real progress happens when we feel safe with someone, that’s what I aim to create. I offer a space where you are understood and heard, without judgement. As a Pluralistic Psychotherapist and with decades of experience based in the humanistic person centred approach, I have also spent 4 years doing a Masters studying a wide range of approaches to meet your unique needs. I will adapt therapy using a creative approach, working in a person centred way drawing on a wide range of approaches which may include psychodynamic, solution focussed, cognitive behavioural, ACT, compassion led therapy, and others.
I help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or on edge. We will work at your pace, and untangle what’s going on to help you feel like yourself again, and regain control of your life.
I began counselling very young to help family, and been asked to listen and give counselling ever since. I offer a warm, safe space where together we will make things feel better, and empower you to create the life you want.
You won’t feel judged here, just heard, understood, and supported. Working at your pace, we will help to make things feel better.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy in Pluralistic Counselling which is the study of a wide range of approaches to draw upon the best approach to meet your individual need. I have a 1st Class Hons degree as a mental health therapist trained in the person centred approach and open offers of Doctorates including the first cross school doctorate in Health, Medicine and Theology. I’ve done a vast array of professional training including mindfulness, IFL, Adolescent Mentalization Based Integrative Therapy, Attachment Based Interviewing, Creative Therapy, Neurodiversity, Compassion Therapy and Motivational Interviewing among many others. I have also delivered NHS patient groups nationally on anxiety management, assertiveness training, mindfulness, the Cognitive Behavioural Approach, Life Skills and problem solving, creative therapy etc. My training foundation was in person centred humanistic counselling. I have also given clinical supervision to trainee counsellors and I have been a Counselling Manager managing a large caseload and a team of counsellors. I have travelled extensively including in Russia, Central America, and Europe and my learning is ongoing, through life experience and within my current employment as specialist counsellor working with individuals who have a neurodiversity, trauma and complex needs.
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
£45.00 - £65.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer reduced rates for people on low income, please contact me for more information.
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Further information
It takes courage to share our struggles, but through this we derive clarity, empowerment and insight. I have successfully helped people with long standing issues including anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, eating disorders, addictions, relationship problems, childhood abuse, domestic abuse, bereavement, and many other issues including neurodiversity/sensory issues, and trauma. I offer a safe, confidential space for you to be heard and given the time you need. I offer mainly online and telephone sessions, with a limited number of face to face sessions available.
