About me
Welcome!
I imagine if you’re reading this now you’ve been struggling with whether you need some support and understanding and whether it will help. Perhaps you’ve kept on going and going, trying to cope, but ending up feeling overwhelmed or stuck in survival mode, feeling unhappy.
It’s easy to search online and look through these profiles, but it may feel difficult to choose someone and book that initial appointment. I’d urge you to give it a try. Whether it’s with me or another therapist here, please read on and see who or what feels right for your situation.
I offer warmth and acceptance. I allow you a safe space to share what's happened that's brought you here now. Whether you’ve lost someone through bereavement, or the end of a relationship or worried about a difficult relationship, the unfinished business can leave you feeling stuck in the past, or anxious and worried about the future. This leaves little energy to live your life more fully now. Perhaps you feel depressed, low or sad, unable to see a clear way through, or unable to make a difficult decision. Low self-esteem, lack of confidence then leaves you unable to get what you want from your life.
Due to the current explosion of ADHD diagnoses and how that can impact, whether diagnosed or suspected, I’m currently doing an additional course to deepen my knowledge of this. If that’s you, we can explore ways you can help with overwhelm and behaviours. I want to understand how these affect you as an individual, not simply a diagnosis or label.
Counselling can help with all the above. Often, by you simply engaging in this process, feeling safe enough to share your feelings, can be freeing, and what once felt all-encompassing can become more manageable and leave you with the energy to face a situation, decision and move forward. Even with things such as grief, relationship problems, anxiety, depression, panic attacks or a long-standing problem that simply won’t go away, there is often unfinished business preventing you moving forward or making choices that may benefit you. With more awareness about the patterns in your life, you then may have more options around choosing what is best for you.
It's also important you find the counsellor or therapist that is right for you. So I encourage you to browse these profiles, trust your instinct for who feels right, who to contact. I just hope that you do contact make contact with someone and ask for the help to support you right now. What's the worst that could happen? But then also ask yourself what would be the best outcome for you?
Please contact me to book an initial assessment session First session is half price at £30 with no obligation to continue. I charge £55 for further sessions. And can reduce this by £5 for those on lower income, students, NHS worksers. Sessions are 1 hour.
To begin with, let’s see how you and I can find you the support you are looking for to explore the dilemma or concerns that are stopping you living your life more fully right now.
- Easy access location, plenty of parking and close to Ludlow town centre.
- Comfortable, spacious,, private room.
- Low price initial session at £30 then £55 if you choose to continue.
- Online sessions available via Zoom, initial session £30 then £55 to continue.
- Student rates or lower income rates available. Usually £45 to £50.
- Experienced, qualified, accredited, MBACP registered counsellor.
Training, qualifications & experience
My previous work as a health professional, writing professionally and delivering workshops, fuelled my interest in mental health and personal development.
Many years ago, dealing with a personal crisis led me to try counselling. I admit I was sceptical about it, believing I should be able to sort my own problems in my own head. Yet it was a revelation that helped clarify what was going on for me. I was then able to make decisions to move forward from the stuck place I was in. A few years later, I decided to train as a counsellor and therapist myself.
I trained at The Gestalt Centre, London, on an accredited course, and obtained a Diploma in Counselling and a Post Graduate Diploma in Gestalt Therapy. This is a holistic, body-centred psychotherapy that aims to integrate thoughts with emotions and sensations to allow people to become more in touch with their whole experience, and more able to tune into present experience and begin living the life you want to live starting now.
My work has been very diverse, but I see recurring themes around anxiety, low confidence, depression, loss and bereavement, work or relationship issues or just a general sadness or loss of energy for life, wanting things to be different, without quite knowing how. Post pandemic, this seems to have become worse for a lot of people.
I also have interest and experience in dealing with issues of childlessness: infertility, miscarriage, abortion.
I’ve recently done a course on ADHD as this is a growing concern for many people and can really impact how someone feels and lives and need ways to explore this and thrive.
Also clients who are in recovery from substance misuse or have loved ones who are. I worked in a rehab centre for my placement in training,
I enjoy working with young people, but only 18+, due to my training qualification. I am also interested in older clients who may have concerns about ageing, illness, loss, or may be questioning what the point is now.
I also write and like to help creatives who feel ‘blocked’ I also run a Writing for Wellbeing group in Ludlow. See my website for details.
Here are some of the issues I have experience of helping clients with:
- addictions -drugs or alcohol- in recovery
- childhood abuse
- anxiety
- Adhd
- depression
- bereavement
- abortion
- fertility problems
- Disordered eating
- stress
- work related stress
- bullying at work
- redundancy
- relationship dilemmas
- coercive control
- family problems
- sexuality
- gender dysphoria
- loss
- suicidal thoughts
- near death experience
- low mood
- low self-esteem
- lack of confidence
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£30.00 - £55.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
ONLINE or IN PERSON sessions, from my home annexe or a room at a community centre in town if preferred. The first session is lower at £30, for you to try. If you then wish to continue, preferably weekly, it is £55 if you wish to continue.
Reduce fees can be discussed, generally £45-50 for students, low income or NHS staff.
I now see people from a home annexe with its own separate access to the main house and its own loo. The room is cosy, comfortable and private with a log burning stove in winter. There is ramped access to the room from the road, but there is a step into the room.
The is plenty of road parking opposite and is walkable from the station or town centre. However, I can also offer face to face sessions from a comfortable room at The Mascall Centre https://www.ludlowmascallcentre.co.uk/ in the town centre.
I can offer session Tuesdays to Fridays, day time and evenings with limited availability in the evenings currently. I can also offer Saturday mornings if there’s no other availaibilty for you. Please contact me for the latest availability.
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