This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
We all face problems in living and counselling can provide you with a neutral safe space to talk through what is going on for you.
I trained at Chichester University, qualifying with a diploma in Humanistic Counselling in 2020. After a further two years of study, in 2022, I attained a degree in Humanistic Counselling. I am now working towards accreditation.
My work is informed by the various approaches within the Humanistic and Person-Centred Therapies. I hold a view that people are unique and creative and so naturally adapt my approach to the person in front of me. Some favoured approaches within these modalities are person-centred experiential counselling for depression, relational approach, focus-orientated, emotion-focused, existentially informed person-centred therapy and solution focused therapy.
I am interested to discover how you make sense of your situation or issue, or how you arrive at conclusions about yourself or others and what it is like to be you. I will work with you on where you are in the here and now to gently challenge what you bring. The potential for growth or enhancement I believe is always present even if those are experienced as small shifts in the direction of a specific goal or about wanting to feel better about yourself. I can help by guiding you to find your own solutions if that is about wanting to find ways to cope with your problems and wanting to lessen the load.
Grief work and loss have been at the heart of my training and continues to be of interest to me. I have experience of having worked sensitively with the bereaved and pre-bereaved at a local hospice and more recently working for a charity with clients bereaved by suicide. I co- facilitate a bereavement support group.
My training included working for a charity in the community with older adults who lived with limited mobility. During my time there I worked with a variety of client issues and situations including loneliness and isolation, chronic pain, redundancy, financial worries and relationship problems.
As well as my private practice I currently work for a community mental health service and bring experience of working with clients who come with complex needs such as those affected by substance and alcohol abuse, domestic abuse and suicidal tendencies.
Primarily I believe it is the quality of the relationship between us that is the key ingredient in promoting change. It is Important that you feel comfortable and safe in my presence and get a sense of there being a connection between us.
I offer a free introductory forty-minute appointment which is an opportunity for us to get to know each other and to ask questions. I will check in with what you’re hoping to get out of therapy and what if any are your goals. I’ll give you an overview of what I offer and provide information about my approach as a humanistic and person-centred counsellor.
Whilst working towards accreditation sessions I will be charging a lower rate to reflect this.
As a registered member of the BACP (394091) I adhere to the principles and values set out in the Ethical Framework ensuring that I practice ethically and safely and to continuous professional development. I am registered as a data controller with the ICO adhering to current data protection legislation, including the GDPR.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma Humanistic Counselling (2020) – Chichester University
- BA (Hons) Humanistic Counselling (2022) – Chichester University
Key trainings include:
- Grassroots – Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASSIST)
- Charity/Workplace - Self-harm
- Charity/Workplace - Suicide – Coping with Loss
- Charity/Workplace - Trauma Informed Approach
- Hospice: Manifestations of Grief and Complicated Grief
- Hospice: Exploring the landscape of loss and establishing our theoretical bearings.
- Hospice: Working creatively with clients
- Charity - Community Counselling: Equality and Diversity/Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
- Workshop on The Tribes of Person-Centred - Therapy by Mick Cooper
- Workshop on Therapy and Social Change by Mick Cooper
Humanistic and Person-Centred Authors I have drawn upon: Carl Rogers, Eugene Gendlin, Soren Kierkegaard, Mick Cooper, John McLeod, Eric Berne, Fritz Perls, Carl Jung, John Rowan and Steve de Shazer.
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
£40.00 per session
Free initial in-person session
Additional information
I offer a free forty-minute introductory session.
Subsequent sessions of fifty minutes £40.00
When I work
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Further information
I offer in person appointments for either short or long-term therapy at centrally located counselling therapy rooms that are within easy reach of public transport.
I will contact you by telephone or email, whatever your preference to book in an introductory session, answer any questions you may have, and to discuss location of therapy rooms.
I have daytime and evening appointments available on Mondays and Fridays and work Saturday mornings.
