This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
It is my aim to create a compassionate & safe space where you feel truly listened to & heard. Here we can explore thoughts, feelings & behaviours that may be making life harder with the aim to bring acceptance and then change.
I have worked extensively with heightened levels of anxiety, anger issues, depression, patterns of unhelpful behaviours & helped clients to develop & maintain healthier relationships. I believe that traumatic memories & painful relationships can block our self worth and lead us to take in & believe unhelpful & inaccurate self narratives.
I will work with you to explore the story that you have to tell & through understanding your actions, those of other main characters & life events then I hope to help you understand yourself & life more clearly. As this story is re-examined, clients often experience different changes such as; more social ease, self-confidence & reduced stress and anxiety.
Sometimes we need our worries & thoughts to be heard by someone who is not part of our support group, by someone who is not going to try & fix things immediately but to try & see the world through our eyes. I work hard to do this for my clients as it is empathy that can help co-create lasting change.
If you feel you need support then please get in touch.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Postgraduate Diploma (Level 7): Integrative Psychotherapy: Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute
- Guided Imagery and Visualisation: Human Givens
- The Rewind Technique: Human Givens
- Understanding about Gender and Gender Identification: Counselling Tutor Online
- Couples Therapy Training: Juliet Grayson
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
£40.00 - £50.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
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Further information
Prior to booking an initial assessment session, contact can be kept to email if preferred. If potential clients prefer then I can call for a 10-15 minute phone call for which there is no charge.
Once a booking has been made then an initial assessment form is emailed out which along with standard questions, e.g. contact details etc, also has three open ended questions being: What prompted you to contact a counsellor? What changes in life circumstances / self do you want? Is there any other information you wish to tell me about? This is emailed back prior to the initial session.
Our first session is an assessment session which provides an opportunity for you to discuss further why you have sought out therapy and for us to establish what you hope to get from the sessions. It is also the time where I will ask questions to build a picture of your life in terms of: sleep, eating habits, coping mechanisms, family, support, work/study, hobbies. If at the end of the session, we both feel that we can work together then I usually suggest we start with six sessions. There is no set period of time for therapy and I regularly review our sessions to make sure you are getting what you feel you need.
