This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hello there and thanks for stopping by. If you're suffering with anxiety, depression or any other issues, whether under any diagnosis or not, I'm here to help.
At your own pace, we can get to know the problem. A problem discussed well can be enough to at least curb a difficult cycle you might be stuck on, as you naturally find yourself reacting to old trigger factors less. Beyond this, we'll work at pragmatic ways of problem solving to try and remove blocks to certain issues. Ultimately, you'll have your own answers that likely need further unlocking.
Fundamentally I just want this to be a process that works for you, even if it's the case you're just discombulated and would appreciate a listening ear. Ultimately there's power to be gained by being able to get our emotional chips on the table.
My career has swung between more pragmatic CBT work, which certainly can be more immediately helpful, to combining more of an eclectic approach to find what's best for someone - given a combination of what you seem to need most at the start, and trying to unearth what is essentially you. Sometimes there's complexities and past entanglements that are worth unraveling. We don't have to dig up every trauma, but there's power in incrementally engaging with what scares us.
Ultimately I do realise it can just be tricky to even know what the problem is sometimes, other than we know something is wrong and we just feel particularly stuck about it. I'm not just a good listener, I'm keen to have a conversation and explore not only what the matter is, but ultimately what matters to you.
For this is genuinely a process of mutual engagement. Even after seven years, I'm still keen to learn more from who I'm speaking to. So it is important and effective for both of us that I deeply understand what you have to say.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BA (Hons) Counselling
- FdSc Counselling and Psychotherapy (CBT)
- BACP Registered Member (MBACP)
- 7 years experience
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
When I work
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Available 7 days a week (limited availability on Saturdays/Sundays) including evenings.
Further information
This is the therapy route we'll tend to take -
From the first session we'll try to get to know the problem. Sometimes it's just a case of getting out what's on the top of your mind and the more we unravel the clearer certain themes will emerge. Often it's the case that a problem discussed well can be half the solution itself. It's not just changing your relationship with the thoughts, but moreover the emotions they give you. There's always a reason you've developed a relationship with certain emotions in the way you have. It's not necessarily a case of getting rid of them, but a realignment of your own philosophy around them, especially when you come to realise how you've been shaped by them for better and worse, can actually give you a lot of gold and greater fluidity in your life and thinking. Succinctly put, you'll worry less and have greater confidence.
It's not that things shouldn't matter to you. Yes you're gonna feel pain around certain situations still. But it's unlocking something essential within yourself when it comes to not just coping with this pain better, but actually to move with it more as a guiding light in your life, rather than finding yourself going round in circles trying to escape what only seems to feel dark about it.
Change is not transformation. Change is an expansion. There's no need to get rid of the old you or your old way of coping. You can't anyway and you might still need that part of you going forward. It's just that you don't want to be stuck with one way of coping, fundamentally. Because this will remain a vicious cycle. Instead, we're effectively trying to open out the other 20-30% of your own mind (the deeper part of your own unconscious which has always been recording), in order you can find more confidence from living by the heart (gut) more. This will free your mind, as you'll come to accept that you don't need to free yourself from your mind. As in you'll feel easier with solving what matters to you from it, at your own pace, and the rest of the time you're able to observe emotion.
