This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Counsellor/Supervisor.
I am a MBACP Accredited Person Centred Counsellor, with extensive experience in Solution Focused Brief Therapy.
My belief is that everyone deserves the time, care and support to be heard and have the opportunity to live their best lives.
I believe that you don't need to carry the heaviness of everything with you, some things are meant to be left behind. A person knows themselves better than anyone else. But life has a way of throwing us curve balls that can get in the way of being the best version of yourself. Therapy can go some way to help this be achieved.
I have a background working in Social Care and Third Sector Organisations, including Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation, Homelessness and EAP work.
I also provide Supervision to Counsellors in training and in practice.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist MBACP (Accred).
- PG Dip Person Centred Counselling - University of Strathclyde
- COSCA Qualified Supervisor
- Safeguarding Level 3
- Critical Incident and Stress Management (CISM) Trained Responder
- Professionalism and Boundaries Trainer (Train the Trainer)
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy
- HNC Integrative Counsellor
- SVQ 111 Social Care
- Psychological First Aid
- I have a variety of both life and employment skills and experience, gained over many years, as well as several years of Continued Professional Development.
- Living Life To The Full
- Psychoeducation
- Life Coaching
- Risk
- Neurodiversity
- Scottish Mental Health First Aid
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.
COSCA is the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, and seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills by promoting best practice and through the delivery of a range of sustainable services. COSCA Counsellor Accreditation is a pathway to entry onto the UKRC. It is a requirement of all individual and organisational members of COSCA to abide by its Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice and be accountable to the Complaints Procedure. 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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£35.00 - £40.00
Additional information
Free initial 15 minute consultation session via telephone.
Individual Counselling Session £35/40 (50 Min)
Individual Supervision Session £40 (1.5 hr)