About me
Life can feel hard sometimes.
A crisis that throws everything we took for granted into the air, crashing us and our life into a million pieces.
A gnawing sense that we are running from ourselves, our past, things that we are scared to face but we know are dictating our current life.
A subtle but disquieting sense that life was supposed to be or feel different to this, that we are meant for more, but we don’t know what.
A feeling that we can’t cope with everything that life is giving us to handle, perhaps involving uncontrollable tears, endless worry or exhaustion.
A recognition that we are living to please others and meet their expectations rather than ourselves and the dis ease that this evokes.
A realisation that our mind is at constant war with us and the fear and lack of peace that goes along with that.
These are just some of the many many reasons that people begin therapy. It can feel scary to reach out to a therapist. But when the idea of continuing as we are seems worse than the unknown of therapy, we make the call or send the email.
I believe that there is no ‘one size fits all’, but when we are met with another human who is safe, free of judgment, devoted to help us experience and understand ourselves, there is a magic that happens within us that creates change of some sort, and alleviates distress.
Therapy with me looks like an extended conversation over a number of weeks. My intention is to help you see, hear and understand yourself more fully so that you are empowered to make choices, take actions and create relationships that serve your highest good. We attend to the mind, the body and the energetic self. I love this work that I have been doing now for over 10 years. I remain in awe of the human potential for growth, overcoming obstacles and thriving when pain, suffering and challenges are explored and attended to.
I would love to hear from you if you think I can be of help. Please email or call.
Couples
Being part of a couple can be the most beautiful yet also the most challenging and painful thing. My work with couples begins with learning a new way to communicate that honours both of you and your perspectives and creates safety. From this place of safety, we can feel connected to our partner and expereince the joy that relationship can bring. WE take care of the relational space between you, so that you can safely share your truth with your partner and can hear theirs. Rather than finding yourselves in a power struggle vying for your own position, you find yourself as a team working together to take care of your relationship. Of course for some people, it has become too painful for too long and the need is for an ending. Even here, we can communicate and navigate that process with consciousness and compassion holding a painful process in love.
My role is to teach you methods to dialogue, to hold a loving space within which you can hear yourselves and each other.
WE learn about intimate relationships from our original family Fromm the moment we are born into them. The likelihood is that you and your partner do not have a blueprint for healthy conscious relating. You and your partner will bring with you into your relationship, childhood wounds and models of relationship that limit your capacity to give and receive love. We all have this to some degree or other. My aim is to help you uncover these so that you heal yourselves, grow the skills to create and sustain fulfilling loving relationship.
Training, qualifications & experience
Imago Couples Clinical Training
Diploma in THerapeutic counselling
Certificate in counselling children and young people
Certificate in clinical supervision
I have experience of working with children and young people.
I have experience of working with a wide range of people who come to counselling for a whole host of reasons.
I have worked for Cruse Bereavment care, a local generic counselling charity, primary schools and secondary schools as well as at the letchworth Centre for healthy living.
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
From £75.00
