About me
My name is Beth and I'm an integrative therapist, working online. Thanks for checking out my profile. I offer a warm, welcoming space for you to explore how you are, who you are, and where you are, examining your strengths and struggles, personality and history, whilst keeping in mind the pressures of the wider world. I practice in an open way that is sensitive to the individual, but informed by my understanding of human development, relationships and trauma. (I recognise that every therapy relationship is as individual as you, and selecting a therapist based on some words on a screen isn't easy.)
My style of being is natural, friendly and authentic, and I work collaboratively with each client, bringing warmth, receptiveness, curiosity and challenge. My role is to support you in your own process, by listening, noticing, asking questions and investigating with you, to help you sense into where you are, make sense of what you find, and try out new ways of seeing or being. I care about people, whatever their particular difficulties, but I have a personal interest in issues of belonging/identity, self-esteem, fear, shame and climate/social justice-related distress. I strive to work in an anti-oppressive, inclusive way, and my pronouns are she/her.
I work with adults (age 18 upwards) and I see clients once a week, on an open-ended basis, with the option of regular reviews. Sessions last 50 minutes. I mostly do longer-term work (upwards of a year), but I am guided by whatever the client brings – often what has been missing for those of us who come to therapy is patient, dedicated attention, without the pushing or rushing of everyday life; at other times what is needed can be arrived at more quickly, depending on how focussed it is possible to be in the work.
Please feel free to check out my website for more information.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an integrative therapist, which means my work draws on theory and practice from multiple fields of counselling and therapy, including trauma- and attachment-orientated approaches, Embodied Relational Therapy and Gestalt. My personal experience of counselling first began many years ago, and has encompassed a number of different approaches, which informed my decision to train as an integrative practitioner. I believe my own experiences of life's challenges serve as an an important element of my professional toolkit, drawing on the ancient myth of the ‘wounded healer’. Previously I worked as a counsellor at Watford Women’s Centre, with female survivors of domestic abuse.
I hold a BACP-accredited foundation certificate and postgraduate diploma in integrative counselling from the Minster Centre, one of Europe’s leading integrative counselling and psychotherapy training institutes. I am a registered member of the BACP and have full professional indemnity insurance.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
The humanistic aspect of my integrative therapy orientation means that I focus more on the individual person, than on their conditions, though I respect the fact lots of people find labelling and diagnosis useful and important. In my experience, we can only find the right therapist 'match' for us by meeting the person and seeing how it feels, but I encourage clients to trust their own judgment and intuition in how they approach selecting a therapist, and in deciding to go forward, or not, with a therapy relationship.
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Further information
For enquiries and to arrange an initial consultation please email, call or text. If calling, please leave me a voicemail with your contact details, and I will call you back.