About me
Life gives us a lot of opportunities to learn to cope with our problems. But it doesn’t give us a lot of opportunities to genuinely try and heal from them. I can’t claim to have the answer to every problem, but I want to take an approach to mental health – your mental health – which thinks about healing, growth and change.
While I have years of experience working with a broad range of diagnoses, I think these labels can take away from an actual person and their actual problems. I want to learn about you as a person and work out what a solution looks like for you. That means the solutions we work on together won’t be one-size-fits-all. It may take time and be hard work. But that’s because it’s worth doing.
My goal is to offer you a supportive space – one you can use to express and process your feelings without judgement. I will be genuinely curious about you, and will listen to what’s going on for you.
It’s important to me that you bring your whole self to the therapy room. That’s because I believe that every part of you, even the tricky parts, are deserving of care and healing. It’s only through facing these parts of ourselves that we can gain a deeper understanding, and work out what meaningful change might look like.
I value building meaningful relationships with people based on trust and empathy. It can be really hard to open up, so it’s important to me that I make it easy for you. However, I will not shy away from challenging you where I know it can help you grow and change for the better.
Training, qualifications & experience
As well as being a qualified person-centred counsellor/psychotherapist, I also have degrees in psychology & social work. I am committed to continuing my own learning so I can be my best self for my clients. My background includes working with clients aged 18 and over, and with people who have struggled with a range of experiences (including mental ill health, addiction, grief, loss, trauma and abuse).
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
£55.00 per session
Additional information
Concessionary rates available upon further discussion
Further information
I offer a free initial 15-30 minute consultation call where you can ask me any questions and we can both decide whether we think we'd work well together. If you are looking for a therapist who prioritises the things that I do, I would love to hear from you.
