About me
Hi, I’m Amy.
Dog lover, perfectionist in recovery, and BACP registered therapist. I work with women, often in their twenties and thirties, who never feel good enough.
Wanting to change is normal, it helps us grow. Not feeling enough as you are is different. It’s painful. It's linked to depression, anxiety, difficult relationships and shame. It's possible to be intelligent, outwardly content and still not feel good enough. It might look something like this:
Frequently apologising, negatively comparing yourself to other women, having a critical voice in your head. Procrastinating. Needing to do things perfectly or there’s no point. Believing you’ll be happy if you can just lose weight/be a better mother/find ‘the one’. Struggling to ask for what you need at work, in your personal life or during sex. Ending up with partners who lose interest, affect your self confidence or become abusive. Struggling to regulate your emotions, being labelled ‘too sensitive’. Agreeing to things in order to please others, feeling resentful about it. Binge eating or drinking. Having a difficult relationship with your mother. Believing there must be something wrong with you, that you’re ‘damaged goods’ or that everyone will leave you. Feeling ashamed of things that happened to you, keeping them secret. Feeling sad and lonely a lot of the time.
It sounds hopeless, but it’s not.
I provide counselling and psychotherapy sessions to women who want to change the way they feel about themselves. Therapy with me can help you to accept yourself without losing weight or finding the perfect partner. Learn how things that happened in your past may have shaped your behaviour in the present; helping you to arrest patterns that are hurting you. It can help you to become assertive in asking for what you want; and set boundaries to prevent others from treating you with disrespect. It can help you establish healthy, enduring relationships.
Therapy can help you to stop feeling ashamed of who are you and start living a life you actually want.
Therapy with me isn’t cold, clinical or judgemental. I’m warm, approachable and unshockable. I’m not afraid of strong emotions. I won’t tell you what to do, or that there’s only one way of doing it. You can expect a psychobabble free experience. Mental health involves lots of confusing terms and this can feel overwhelming. CBT, DBT, psychodynamic, person-centred are all ways of describing therapy. If you're a women who doesn't feel good enough, concepts like attachment, or developmental trauma might feel relevant. You might feel fundamentally different, or suspect you have ADHD/autism. It’s my job to understand the psychological theory and make it accessible to you. You just need to show up.
I am what’s called an integrative therapist. This means that I’m trained in a number of different forms of psychotherapy and use a combination of these to help you. The idea behind integrative therapy is that you are unique, and what would work perfectly for you might not work for someone else. My practice is trauma informed; founded on the understanding that 1 in 3 women have experienced some form of sexual assault. My practice promotes safety, empowerment and healing.
I offer online and in-person, weekly sessions, my fee for sessions is £88.
All in-person sessions take place in beautiful therapy rooms, within 6 minutes walk of a train station.
Got more questions? Send me a message.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a deep personal commitment to the emotional health of women.
I studied social sciences at Trinity College Dublin. This gave me a sound foundation in theories of human motivation, behaviour, sexuality, and gender.
I completed my postgraduate education in counselling and psychotherapy in Cape Town and London, at the South African College of Applied Psychology. As part of my postgraduate research, I investigated the properties of shame and how this affects the way we view ourselves. I use this experience to help women recover from difficult life experiences.
Prior to entering private practice I was part of a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists and counsellors at a mental health service in a deprived parts of South Africa and London.
I have a research interest in the treatment of PMDD, how hormonal disorders affect mood and the connection with other comorbid conditions like ADHD and hypermobility. I work with medical professionals in order to support women with this.
I’m a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. This requires me to meet rigorous standards of training, ethics and professional development on an annual basis. Keeping you as a client safe and protected.
Ready to make a change? Book an introduction session today.
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.
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Fees
£88.00 per session
Additional information
My fee for sessions is £88.
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I currently have limited availability remaining in Norwich for in-person sessions.
I do have a waiting list for London and online sessions may be possible until a space becomes free.
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