About me
Feeling anxious and overwhelmed about ill health and managing a huge workload can be a very lonely and frustrating place. It can be hard to balance daily life and routines at the best of times but with a health condition it can seem impossible. Even this time you're spending looking for support can feel very demanding.
It doesn't have to be this way. If you're struggling with a diagnosis or health-related condition having a HUGE impact on your life I could be the right person to restore some balance, partly because I've been there myself.
Using approaches, techniques from Acceptance and Commitment therapy allied with a person-centred background I can help you to feel as empowered as you possible as you adjust to these difficult changes. I will give you the confidence to move towards a better view of yourself and develop an assurance that you can get through difficult times. Working together, I believe we can move in a purposeful way towards a better now and a better tomorrow. I believe that the power for real change is waiting untapped inside of you (even though it doesn't feel like it); you just need the right tools to be able to access it. I work in a way that is comfortable (and maybe gently challenging) but will do it in a way that works for you.
At the moment I work face to face at the Sage Therapy Centre in Nottingham or the Bay therapy centre in West Bridgford. However, I also work online or over the phone for those who can't make it in person.
Please get in touch if you think I could help, even if the price is putting you off.
https://www.actnowcounselling.co.uk/
Training, qualifications & experience
I've most recently worked with an EAP (employee assistance programme) providing short-term targeted interventions for anxiety and overwhelm with risk and neurodivergent clients. I've also five years experience as a bereavement counsellor for a local charity.
- PGDip in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Keele University) (Level 6 course).
- ACT certified practitioner.
- Certificate in Systemic child-focused practice (Institute of Family Therapy).
- Baby loss therapy experience and certified.
- Accredited Member of the BACP.
- Certified online and telephone practitioner.
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
Ecotherapy
Single-session therapy
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Free chat to arrange initial session
£60 for a 50 minute session (but don't be put off if this is too much- get in touch). Face to face, online or telephone.
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