About me
I am Trained in both Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Person Centred (PCT) modalities. I work in a calm and supportive way to help you gain the confidence to deal with difficult feeling and emotions that come up for you. Both models use skills such as, empathy. feeling, emotions. non-judgemental, and a safe space to help you to gain a more in-depth understanding of these difficult feeling and thoughts that can overwhelm you at times. My counselling and supervision practice is based within the Liverpool city centre area, within the ( L2 8TD post code) area. My work is mainly face to face sessions, plus on-line using ( Teams) or phone, emails or text to help support your personal development. I am a registered member of the BACP, working within there guideline, in supporting your needs. My practice also helps you to gain control of difficult issues that may be causing problems with your daily routine.
My Practice as a therapist covers counselling issues relating to extreme trauma and strong emotions and feeling that may be attached to your trauma. I also cover other areas, such as health anxiety and social anxiety and depression and other complex issues that may be causing you problems. Such as, Anxiety, Depression , OCD, ADHD and relationships issues that have been impacted by these complex issues. The importance in challenging your fears and thoughts helps you to find a new and health balance that fits in with your new learning about yourself within sessions. My practice as a therapist is a collaborative relationship, helping you to work towards an outcome that helps you to deal with daily issues. I also use educational tools to help you gain the information you need to support your self and gain control over difficult emotions and feelings that are sometimes difficult to let go.
Therapy helps you to create a space to deal with overwhelming feeling and emotions and CBT gives you the tools to help you deal with everyday triggers that would normally be missed under pressure. I am also a experienced mindfulness practitioner and use these skills to help you to hold difficult thoughts and feeling, when working on a deeper level with your triggers (thoughts and feeling). My counselling practice also contains the use of brief therapy (6 sessions) or longer CBT session (12 to 18 sessions). Both practices help you to focus on issues that you may be finding difficult to talk about, with family and friends.
Counselling is the start of a new journey, and holds no expectations in how you develop within the sessions. It's your journey and your direction that is the main focus point for your development
Training, qualifications & experience
Professional Qualifications
- Clinical Supervision Dip (Counselling Tutor Oct 24 to Oct 25)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Jo Edwards Dec16 to June 2017.
- Certificate in Education, (UCLAN) Sep 2008
- Advanced diploma in counselling.(HB) (PCC) UCLAN June 2006.
- Applied Psychology Degree (John Moores University) Sep 96, June 2001.
- Intermediate in Counselling,(Hugh Baird) (ABC)(PCC) 08/06/2000.
- Compass BCCS Level 2, 17/4/96 to 12/6/96.
- Compass BCCS Level 1, 3/7/95 to 24/07/1995.
Professional Personal Development
- Mental Health First Aid Course (MHFA) (12 hours)Steve Price 27th/28th March 2018.
- Treating Generalised Anxiety and Panic Disorder (6 hours) 23rd June 2018.
- Understanding Confidence and Self- Esteem (2hours) Natalie Dawn 02/02/2018.
- Schema Therapy, A brief outline (3 hours) Arthur Fairbanks (BABCP, ISST) 07/05/2017.
- Understanding Child Protection (2hours) Sue Wilkinson 09/01/2007
- Understanding Suicide (HB) (2 hours) John Farrell June 2006.
- Art Therapy BACP Northwest (1.5 hours) Colin Lyall 15/10/2003.
- Understanding Anger (Compass) 29, 30th June 1995 (10 hours).
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I charge £60.00 for face to face therapy sessions and £50.00 for Telephone or online therapy sessions. My aim is to help you gain an insight into to any complex issues that causes you daily problems. My charge for Supervision, ( 1,5 hours) is £60.00 per monthly session, to help with your clinical practice.
Hi, I am a experienced therapist, and have completed my Clinical Supervision in October 2024, for on line and face to face. I specialise in trauma anxiety, depression, dissociation, eating disorders and addictions. I work in Water Street and other locations around Liverpool, for one to one sessions. I do the first half hour free, by phone, just too see if we can work together. It is important that you feel at ease with yourself, so you can gain a more mindful insight into areas of your life you feel you need to change. Please call or leave a message and I will get back to you.
When I work
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Further information
I also offer a reduction in sessions rates of (£50.00 per session) for all the following areas, low income, Keyworkers, Students, Trainee Counsellors and Unemployed clients.
