About me
I am a fully qualified, experienced and compassionate psychotherapist working from home or online in the Winchester area.
My personal working approach is focussed on you - seeing you, hearing you, understanding you and supporting you, in complete confidence and always in a non-judgmental way. Together as a team we will build a working relationship to understand and resolve your obstacles and difficulties, towards a more meaningful, balanced and productive life where you feel more in charge of you and more in sync with you.
Your therapy is your safe place.
Cost of sessions: 30mn £25, 60mn £50/£45 concessions students/seniors
Perhaps you do not know where to start? However you do know that sometimes life can get complicated and challenging. Do you recognise some of the following?
- I keep getting into the same difficulties in many of my relationships
- I have doubts and fears about many things
- I am hurting over a relationship that has ended.
- I have lost my self-confidence and motivation in life
- I feel strong emotions that I cannot manage
- There are some painful things in my life that I would like to talk about, but I am afraid and ashamed. I don't want to be disbelieved, judged, ridiculed, labelled or dismissed
- Everything is scary
- I feel mostly sad and tearful
- I feel completely stuck
- I have lost someone
- I feel overwhelmed by life
- I feel nothing
- I am not ready for what is about to happen
- I am experiencing difficulties around food or my self-image
- I can’t seem to get on with people
- I feel angry or sad most of the time
- I used to like myself more
- I want to change something that is not working for me, how do I do that?
- I have a big decision to make and I don't know where to start
- I feel something is wrong, yet I can't open up to friends or family for fear of burdening them or upsetting them
As a professional therapist I can help you get clarity about what is happening to you and why it is happening now. Our work together will enable you to implement lasting changes in how you experience the world and how you relate to yourself and others. You will learn to recognise your unhelpful behaviour patterns and begin to experience a more positive, confident and resilient attitude to life. You will start to value and nurture your most important relationship - the one you have with yourself.
I have been working in the last 15 years with clients living and struggling with relationship issues, depression, anxiety, panic, bereavement, loss and stress, lack of motivation or direction in life, lack or loss of self-awareness, painful memories, childhood and adult survivors of trauma, shame and guilt; people living with terminal illnesses and the impact on their families; parents and young people with family issues; adult children estrangement; workplace, career and work relationship issues; romantic or friends relationship issues, divorce and separation; food, drink and self-image issues; retirement issues; survivors of sexual violence and abuse; people facing difficult life choices.
My therapeutic experience includes Universities counselling services, NHS cancer units and medical practices, charities and local council-aided establishments and refugees organisations, as well as running my private practice in Winchester.
I work mainly with Transactional Analysis, which is a theory of personality and a positive communication system. I also use CBT and CBT-related tools, art work and dream work, as well as other psychotherapeutic school of thoughts. In my work I like to use the approaches my clients respond best to.
I am a certified Reiki Master.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a member of the Hampshire Association Of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (HACP).
I am a Reiki Master and a mindfulness practitioner.
I offer psychotherapy in English and in French.
Academic Qualifications:
FdA Hons Humanistic Counselling, Winchester and Middlesex University
Certified Holistic body therapist, Eastleigh college
Post- Graduate Certificate of Education, King Alfred's college, Winchester
BA Law, History and History of Art, Sorbonne university, Paris.
Therapy experience:
War Memorial Hospital cancer wing, Andover.
Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, Winchester.
St Francis' GP surgery, Chandlers Ford
Southampton University counselling services
Friends of the Family, Winchester
Private practice, Winchester
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
£25.00 - £50.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Therapy sessions costs:
30mn introduction session (no commitment) £25
60mn full session £50 or £40 consession for Students and Seniors (60+)
Payment by BACS only are due 24 hours before each session. I regret that cheques and cash are not accepted.
Cancellations by clients on the same day the session is booked are due in full. Any other cancellation can be rebooked.
Length of therapy:
The number of sessions can vary, from a few sessions to medium or long-term therapy. You may get the clarity you need on an issue in one session, or you may need more time. It is your therapy and you know how you feel around it. We will check regularly that we are still on tracks with your needs and hopes.
When I work
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Sessions are available Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm (end of last session) excluding Bank holidays. I regret I do not work at weekends.
Further information
My Online sessions are on Whatsapp.
