About me
Why am I so unhappy? How can I be more content? What should I accept about myself, my relationships and my environment and what should I seek to change? How can I find meaning in my life?
Welcome. I am a psychotherapist with over a decade's experience, practising in person in Jersey. I have a strong track record in helping people to break negative patterns and alleviate and manage emotional pain.
In the context of a healing relationship (honest, supportive and challenging), I provide space for us to explore connections between your past experiences and relationships, and your current life struggles. In doing so, we uncover the primary themes and dilemmas of your life; we find out what needs to be healed, what accepted, and what needs to change. We slowly make the unbearable more bearable, containing painful feelings and allowing the growth of resilience.
I've helped many clients with a range of presenting issues including depression, anxiety, work/life stress, relationship issues, chronic shame and suicidality. Therapy can be discomforting, so the quality of our relationship and alliance is important. Whilst this is a subjective question, I am willing to go to uncomfortable places with you, at a timing and pace comfortable for you. I am non-judgmental and warmly supportive, and I will challenge you when needed, with candour and humour.
It can be difficult to pick up the phone to call a stranger sometimes. You are equally welcome to contact me by e-mail to introduce yourself, leaving phone contact details and a good time period for me to get in touch, and I'll get back to you swiftly to talk about moving things forward.
Training, qualifications & experience
I studied philosophy of mind and existentialism at Oxford University. This work continues to inform my therapeutic practice today.
I worked in the City of London for some years before undertaking a rigorous psychotherapy training with the Minster Centre. I used to work with the mental health charity Mind, offering individual counselling and group therapy. This demanding experience with complex clients helped make me a more seasoned professional.
I work integratively with an emphasis on psychodynamic insights into the power of the unconscious and the ways in which past experience informs how we are in the world today. I also work existentially, thinking about the dilemmas of choice and responsibility in our lives. Research indicates that these approaches are helpful across a range of presenting difficulties.
My approach aims to help you (re)discover the richness of your own unique humanity and to secure a way of being in the world with more ease, freedom and contentment, with confidence to face those painful experiences that are part of all our lives. I know that this is possible from my own professional and personal experience, even when things seem bleak. There is a way forward.
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
£90.00 - £140.00
Additional information
£50 for our initial 50 minute consultation to get a sense of each other and to discuss your needs, thereafter £90-£140 per session as we agree between us.
I am no longer living and working in London, having returned to my home island of Jersey. I retain a London and international practice remotely - feel free to enquire.
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