About me
What has shaped you so far, what are your hopes for the future, and who are you inside? Often we find ourselves carrying things like sadness, anger, anxiety, grief, fear, shame or despair, and as time goes on these can get heavier and heavier. The counselling space is a place to explore all that you are carrying, with the hope that together we can find a way to lighten that load, allow you to take a deep breath, and feel more connected to yourself.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a BACP Accredited Counsellor trained in integrative counselling, primarily person-centred in my way of working, but also incorporating other modalities when it's helpful for a particular client. My qualifications are as follows :
BA(Hons) Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy
Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Certificate in Couples Counselling
Yoga and Somatics for Healing and Recovery
I have experience in working with a range of issues including depression, anxiety, relational difficulties, and bereavement. I also have worked with grief and loss, including with infertility and miscarriage. I have worked in a number of different counselling centres and now run my own private practice.
As you can see I have a qualification in Couples Counselling - I only work with individual clients, but often draw on couples training to explore communication styles and relationship dynamics. If you want to understand your way of being in relationships, then I could be a good fit for you. I'm also really interested in our somatic bodily responses and how our bodies hold lots of our experiences - being with our embodied 'human-ness' can help us live with self-compassion. Again, if this interests you, please reach out and see if I'm a good fit for you.
If you have further questions about the counselling process or my way of working then please contact me.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Additional information
I offer a short introductory phone call for free. This is usually about 10 minutes and is a helpful first step for us to talk a little about what you want to explore in counselling.
After that you can book in for an initial session. I charge £25 for this and it gives me time to ask some questions and understand your goals and what life's like for you, and we can make a plan together of how counselling could be more useful, and whether my way of working is going to be a good fit
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