About me
I am a competent, compassionate and down-to-earth counsellor, clinical supervisor and trainer with over a decade of experience.
Training, qualifications & experience
I provide a therapeutic relationship that enables you to work through whatever you bring to counselling, whether you are looking for short or longer term therapy. The type of counselling that I practice is Person-Centred and Pluralistic, meaning that we will work together to establish what you need from counselling and how that may best be achieved.
I enjoy working with clients across a whole range of issues, including stress, anxiety and depression, other mental health conditions, relationship difficulties, life changes, bereavement and chronic illness. I'm particularly interested in helping clients to recover from the effects of trauma and abuse.
I've worked in a variety of settings: the NHS, higher education, counselling and mental health charities, and in specialist organisations working with domestic and sexual violence, childhood abuse and homelessness/ criminal justice. I lectured at the Metanoia Institute in London, training counsellors on BA and BSc degree programmes.
I have facilitated and written group programmes for a number of years, including Trauma Recovery Groups and small business wellbeing programmes. As a trained Critical Incident Debriefer, I conduct confidential on-site debriefs for organisations in the wake of traumatic events.
I am able to offer bespoke provision to organisations of all sizes, so please contact me to discuss your needs.
I welcome clinical supervisees from both inside and outside the counselling professions, and can provide Supervision on an individual and group basis.
I was an army reservist for a number of years, so have an understanding of armed forces life and of what life can feel like when you either choose, or are forced, to hang up the uniform.
I offer a flexible and individually tailored telephone/ video counselling service to people who are housebound with ME/ CFS and Long Covid. These are physical conditions which have a profound impact, and counselling can help you to cope with this.
I also have extensive experience of Christian faith communities, so understand the nuances and pressures that are unique to these. (I believe that all people, inclusive of their sexuality and gender identities, are made in the image of God). I am able to provide clinical supervision to clergy, and counselling to both clergy and clergy families.
I offer a free, no-obligation 30 minutes discovery phone call, and offer a limited number of low cost (£25 per session) places.
Qualifications
- MBACP (Registered)
- CPCAB Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision
- Foundation Degree in Person-Centred Counselling (University of South Wales)
- BA (Hons) War Studies (King's College London)
- Associate of King's College London (Philosophy, Theology and Ethics)
- Mental Health First Aid (Welsh Assembly Government/ Mind Cymru)
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) & ASIST 'Tune-Up'
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Armed Forces, families & veterans
- Faith-related issues and clergy
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Counselling £50 per session
Supervision £50/ hour (£75/ 90 minutes)
Group work, Training, Critical Incident Debriefing and services to organisations- please enquire.
Limited concessionary places available. Please enquire if cost prohibits you from accessing counselling.
When I work
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Further information
I work from a comfortable, private location in Bridgend town centre. This venue has limited accessibility for wheelchair users. Please contact me to discuss your access needs, as I am very keen to meet these where I can reasonably do so.
Horizons Counselling (10, Court Road, Bridgend, CF31 1BN) is very close to Bridgend railway station and is well-connected to local, regional and national public transport links. There are good parking facilities in the town centre, and disabled parking on the hill, opposite Horizons.
