About me
I have 20 years' experience as a counsellor, gathered working with a wide range of clients in different contexts: community counselling services, the blue light sector, occupational health and private practice.
I am curious about what has happened to you, how you feel about it, and what meaning you make of it. I am compassionate towards whatever anxiety, distress, anger or confusion has brought you to this point, and the ways and resources you have used so far to adapt and survive. Within a warm, calm and accepting professional relationship, I invite you to tell your story in your own time and in your own words, in the hope that I can get to understand your life's experience as accurately as possible. Sometimes telling your story can be healing in itself; at other times you may value another perspective, and here I can call on my long experience and competence in a wide range of approaches to mental distress to offer you something new. In my experience, if you and I prove to be a good "fit", counselling is likely to help you move towards greater clarity, confidence, calm, curiosity, connectedness, creativity, compassion and courage.
I want counselling to be accessible and empowering, so I do my best to explain how counselling might help without using jargon or making it sound mysterious. I invite you to share your hopes and fears about the process to help me tailor my approach to you as an individual. Once we start work together, I also invite you to tell me regularly how counselling is working for you (or not) so that we can make changes if we need to.
Training, qualifications & experience
My counselling qualifications are:
2006: Graduate Diploma in Counselling, York St John University
2013: Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision, City and Islington College
Professional membership, accreditation and registration:
- 2007: Membership of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)
- 2010: Accreditation with BACP
- 2013: BACP Registration number 23222
It is a requirement of my registration and accreditation with BACP that I undertake regular Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to keep my skills and knowledge up to date. (Plus I love learning!) My recent CPD includes:
- 2025: Going into private practice: preparing trainees in supervision
- 2025: 12th international conference in EGCP
- 2025: More neurodiversity awareness in supervision
- 2025: London lectures on psychoanalysis
- 2025: Domestic abuse and risk management
- 2024: Working with difficult supervisees
- 2024: What makes the perfect supervisor?
- 2024: Ethical Framework review
- 2024: Embodied presence
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a full hour (60 minutes) per session.
When I work
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In-person sessions are currently offered on Monday to Wednesday afternoons, with online sessions available in the mornings.
Further information
I'm keen for you to get the most out of your sessions so I tend to invite you to start each session by saying what you'd like to explore that day.
I have responsibility for the process of counselling - things like making a suitable counselling agreement, reviewing progress and timekeeping - so when we first meet, and at other times during our work, I will raise these for discussion.
People who have researched counselling tell us that one of the most important factors in whether counselling is effective is the quality of the working relationship between us. That's why our initial session allows us to explore together if I am "your kind of therapist" as well as me assessing whether I am competent to work with your particular circumstances.
Do see my website for more information about me and how I work.
