About me
Specialisms:,
- Neurodiversity- ADHD, Autism, ASD,
- Anxiety, Depression, Stress
- Loneliness / isolation
- Grief and loss
I’m a BACP registered counsellor with a warm and compassionate approach, specialising in supporting with neurodiversity, addiction, grief and general feelings of unhappiness or uncertainty in life.
I have a background in addiction, cancer care, and education and understand the loneliness and complex emotions that life’s challenges can bring. I’m here to provide a safe, non-judgmental space where you can feel heard, understood, and supported as we work together to help you make sense of what you’re going through, find practical ways to cope, and work towards feeling more balanced and in control.
Even if it's just needing someone to talk to when life feels heavy, I’m ready to support you every step of the way and offer a safe and supportive space to help you build resilience, insight, and lasting change.
Training, qualifications & experience
Fully BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) registered and fully qualified.
Extensive Clinical Background within cancer care, and both professional and personal experience within grief, loss and palliative care.
Background experience within eating disorders
Qualifications and trainings within Education sector - working in schools and with neurodiversity within adults and children.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Fully BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) registered and fully qualified.
- Extensive Clinical Background within cancer care, and both professional and personal experience within grief, loss and palliative care.
- Background experience within eating disorders
- Qualifications and trainings within Education sector - working in schools and with neurodiversity within adults and children.
- Stress, Anxiety, Depression and Loneliness
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
Fees
£65.00 per session
Further information
Weekdays - including early morning and evening hours - to accommodate around client work and childcare commitments.
I also work weekend mornings 8am- 12pm, to allow for accessibility to counselling at the start/end of each week- as required.
Practice description
Remote and face to face.
I offer remote sessions - either via telephone or via teams online, for those that feel that it is more convenient or comfortable to have their sessions from within their own space.
I also offer face to face sessions .
The sessions are utilised at your request-
I offer both:
- A directive approach : using more directive modality skills- which include techniques and goal driven or more ‘tangible’ ways to deal with or approach the things that no longer serve you/ you wish to change.
And/ or
- A non-directive approach: using person centred talking therapies in which the process is more gently guided by the processing of events or feelings within your life, that you wish to go through, talk about and untangle together.
In most cases, my stance is integrative - meaning a mixture of the two, in accordance with each individual person, to establish most effective therapeutic and psychological change.
I know it can feel big, taking that first step- so the first session is utilised for you to speak about whatever you choose to bring- only you will have the gut instinct of how you feel and whether you feel a hope in the help and support that I may be able to help with, and we can proceed from there.
