About me
I belive that people are born with the resources and ability to lead a satisfying and creative life. However, often during childhood and sometimes later on, something inturrupts this process and a person gets stuck in fixed patterns and beliefs about themselves and the world. These patterns emerge in our relationships - with our friends, partners, family and colleagues - and can negatively and often profoundly affect how we feel about ourselves and others. I will help you to explore what is happening for you right now and what you would like to gain from therapy. This may be a specific goal where you want to understand what your situation is and what your options are. Or a more general and exploratory desire to know yourself better so you can grow and take on new challenges.
My practice focuses on self exploration and building awareness of mind and body processes to nurture understanding and restore balance. By expanding our awareness we can expand our choices and ability to overcome patterns of behaviour that are not serving us anymore.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained for 4 years as a relational gestalt psychotherapist. This approach speaks to me as it focuses on what is being experienced now, through our bodies as well as through our thoughts and feelings and the meaning we make of this.
I also bring to my practice my experience as a social worker of over 30 years working predominantly in the field of fostering. I have a wealth and depth of experience in developmental trauma. I have also been witness to the power of healing relationships that can truly change lives. We are all deeply relational beings and it is within safe and trusting relationships we can create and re-create meaning for ourselves and build a healthy relational stance towards ourselves and others.
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
I work with people who are experiencing a range of challenges including anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, relationship issues and gender, sex and relationship diversity.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Please contact me if you would like a concessionary rate
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Further information
There will be many reasons why you are thinking of therapy. It may be a particular issue or a general feeling of anxiety or low mood. Perhaps you feel you are living your life not as you want but as you think you should? Or maybe you feel you have few if any choices in your life as it is now? Do you feel missed, unseen, unfulfilled or dissatisfied? Maybe you are hiding how you truly feel or saying things you don't mean? You may have specific issues, unfinished business, things that keep showing up in your life that are not helpful and leaving you feel stuck.... you may want to bring a diagnosis or label to explore, question, expand, celebrate or discard?
I work with clients who wish to understand any issue that impacts on their relationship with others and with themselves. I work with the concept that people change when they accept and become who they are rather than trying to be someone or something they are not. Change is organic and people change naturally and in a meaningful way when they discover and allow themselves to be fully who they are.
Our work is to build a relationship where we can explore and discover together how you are currently experiencing your world. This process of exploration is building the muscle of awareness that supports you to recognise your strengths as well as what may be holding you back from enjoying your life. Leaning into and delicately exploring difficult feelings can create space and free you up to be more present to what is happening for you right now: To be more compassionate to yourself and to feel joy and gratitude alongside navigating your unique challenges.
