About me
I am a MBACP qualified Person-Centred Psychotherapist. I have in-depth experience counselling in gender and queer capacities and womyn in coercive and violent relationships. There is no single reason to explore or attend therapy. Whatever your motivation, I understand that seeking counselling and therapy may be a risky leap into the unknown for you. Your current path presents choices you are uncertain about. I offer a safe, non-judgmental, trusting, and empathetic space for you to explore, which may allow you to identify and enable your choices.
I have in-depth experience counselling in LGBTQIA+ gender, queer and diverse capacities.
Everyone attends therapy for their reasons, which are infinite. Some of the areas that are explored:
- How can I become myself?
- What do I want.
- I am not happy with the body I was born in.
- Why am I not content in my relationship?
- I feel bullied at work. How can I safely assert myself.
- I feel a need to change my life, but I don’t know how or why.
- I’ve always had a difficult relationship with my family and siblings.
- I am an addict.
- I am in a coercive relationship and not sure how to change my circumstances.
I recognise and prize that you are the best authority on your choices and decisions, and I will be with you as you explore what is best for you.
I can work in person and online through ZOOM
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified Person-Centred therapist and registered with the BACP. I trained for a year at the Minster Institute in Integrative Psychotherapy and am completing my master's in Person-Centred therapy at the Metanoia Institute with a ‘heuristic inquiry' research paper.
My clinical practice has engaged me in volunteering for Childline NSPCC for two years, counselling young persons. I have spent three years as an advanced trainee volunteering with LGBTQIA at London Friend and slightly less time at ELOP counselling LGBTQIA clients, which has offered me the opportunity to meaningfully engage with the community that I feel incredibly passionate and engaged with.
As part of my ongoing professional development, I actively engage with the LGBTQIA+ in queer peer and encounter groups and womyn feminist groups that I feel passionate about.
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
£70.00 per session
Additional information
- Fees are paid on the day of the session into my bank account.
- Cancellations are made 5 working days in advance of cancellation.
- Where notification is less than 5 working days fees are paid in full.
- I will let you know my availability and holidays in advance.
- I have limited concession rates please inquire.
When I work
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I work Monday- Thursday. 8-00am - 7-00pm
I can work in person or online or blended to suit.
Further information
Art for Emotional Exploration
Words might not be able to express your internal feelings. The activity of painting, drawing, and expressive gestures may be a way for you to relate to your feelings, as an alternative to or alongside talking therapy. I combine my extensive training and experience as a psychotherapist and artist to offer art as an emotional and expressive tool for exploration, and not as a clinical modality. These creative approaches are accessible to everyone and require no artistic skill- just a willingness to explore through image, colour and form as part of your unique therapeutic journey.
Walking Therapy
Walking in a confidential space can be a meditation. The rhythm of walking may work for some who find the restrictions of motionlessly sitting in a room uncomfortable. Walking and talking therapy may be another approach that is suited to exploring your feelings through movement and breathing.
I live on the edge of the Green Belt, where it is safe to walk, or in the empty spaces on Hampstead Heath and Regents Park, if that is a convenient location for you.
