About me
A Supportive Space For You: Therapy is a collaborative journey that we take step-by-step. My priority is to provide a warm, accepting space right from the start, giving us the room to naturally build safety and understanding as we work together.
Counselling can feel daunting, but you don't have to carry it all alone. I provide a warm, down-to-earth, and safe space where you can speak freely without the fear of judgment. Because every person’s experience is unique, I reject "one size fits all" templates. Together, we will find a way of working that feels comfortable and right for you.
Grounded in Experience, Tailored to You. While our human connection comes first, it is supported by deep experience. As an accredited NCPS and MBACP Registered Counsellor with over 3,000 hours of clinical practice, I bring a wealth of diverse therapeutic knowledge to our sessions. For you, this simply means you are in safe, steady, and experienced hands. Whether you need short-term tools to get through a difficult patch or longer-term space to explore deeper trauma, we will move at your pace.
Areas We Can Explore Together In my private practice, I walk alongside adults navigating a variety of life's heaviest challenges, specialising in:
- Trauma & Complex PTSD (CPTSD): Safely processing the painful impacts of childhood, emotional, or domestic abuse.
- Emotional Well-being: Easing the weight of anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, and that harsh inner critic.
- Loss & Change: Supporting you through bereavement, grief, and the breakdown of relationships.
- Navigating Difficult Patterns: Helping you understand and manage addictions, substance misuse, obsessions, and self-harm.
Reaching out for support isn't easy, but it is a profoundly meaningful investment in yourself. It is an absolute privilege to do this work and to support people as they navigate their struggles, heal from the past, and reclaim their peace. If you feel ready to take that first step, I would be glad to see how we can work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BACP Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- NCPS Accredited Trauma Focused Counselling
- Cruse Bereavement, bereavement, trauma of sudden death, children's bereavement and complicated grief
- Phase 3 Trauma Model & Polyvagal Theory
- Working safely with trauma in therapy
- Parental Conflict support
- Domestic Abuse
- Dissociative Experiences (DID)
- Dream completion techniques
- Creative Ways with working with Trauma
- Complex Trauma & PSTD
- Trauma & Suicide Training
- Somatic ways of working with Trauma
- Refugee, immigration and exploitation
- Therapeutic Processing and Integration
- Applying Attachment Theory in counselling
- Working with transference and counter-transference
- Culture and anti-discrimination competence framework
- Understanding and managing loneliness
- Engaging with supervision
- Providing time limited counselling
- Understanding and preventing compassion fatigue
- Counselling clients experiencing ambiguous loss
- Talking about depression & suicide
- Understanding and managing stress for therapists
- Understanding and managing the impact of vicarious trauma
- Working with prison counselling
- Suicide awareness training
- Assessments in counselling
- Understanding adverse childhood experiences
- Boarding school trauma, healing from sanctioned child abuse
- Guilt and Shame
- How the body holds trauma and chronic stress
- Relational depth - Mick Cooper
- Relational Depth in counselling and psychotherapy PC workshop with Mick Cooper
- Goals in therapy: actualising our deepest directions workshop with Mick Cooper
- Trauma and creative arts in therapy: a person centred perspective.
- Working with Male Survivors of sexual abuse/violence
- Parental Conflict Training
- Somatic Experiencing Therapy - Peter Levine
- Inner Child Work - John Bradshaw
- BACP Level 2 Counselling Skills & Level 3 in Therapeutic Counselling
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
£60.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Fees & Bookings: The fee for each session is £60 to £70 depending on circumstances.
To secure your appointment and let me prepare for our session, please arrange a bank transfer 24 hours in advance. If something comes up and you need to change your appointment, I kindly ask for 24 hours' notice so I can make the space available to others. Thank you so much for your understanding.
When I work
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Further information
- Online: Accessible nationwide via secure Microsoft Teams video calls.
- In-Person (Southend): Located just outside the town centre with full accessible parking.
- In-Person (Colchester): Located near Magdalen Street with free accessible parking.
