About me
I am an open-minded and warm-hearted counsellor. I work from my garden therapy room in Beverley and online. I am welcoming to clients from all backgrounds, genders and sexualities.
I provide daytime counselling for people aged 16+. I specialise in Neurodiversity, Attachment Trauma, Perinatal and Postnatal mental health and those adapting to major life changes, for example; bereavement, becoming a parent, coming to terms with a medical diagnosis, divorce, redundancy or retirement.
My clients tell me that they enjoy coming to their sessions, they find me to be a calming presence, they feel comfortable opening up to me and they enjoy my sense of humour as it makes counselling feel like a human and warm encounter. I bring my own lived experience to counselling as I have personal experience of complex families, parenting and neurodiversity. I have had my own therapy and appreciate the difference that it can make to your life.
I work as an Integrative counsellor, meaning that I draw on lots of different approaches and I adapt my way of working to suit each client and best meet their needs. I am trauma-informed; you are in control of the content of the sessions. I work at your speed; you do not have to talk about anything that you don’t want to. I will not tell you what to do, as I believe that you know and understand yourself better than anyone else.
I often find that clients have had their struggles minimised and dismissed by themselves and others. Having counselling may be the first time that you acknowledge the pain of what you have gone through. I can help you understand how you have adapted to fit in with the world around you and help you to move forward in more healthy ways.
I have had success working with clients struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, sexual trauma, relational trauma, divorce, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, sight loss, physical disabilities, loss of identity and neurodiversity. I have experience volunteering for several organisations, including Mind, Mysight, Rhema and The Samaritans.
I have worked in both the private and public sectors: in Adult Social Care as an Occupational Therapy Assistant supporting people with long-term disabilities or nearing end of life, and I have worked with families and their babies, running classes in the community.
In my free time, I enjoy walking, reading, films, theatre, socialising, spending time with close family and friends, eating good food, and I also sing with a blues band.
Practical Information
I am located on a main road into Beverley, on the bus route and within walking distance from the bus and train station.
Sessions are 50 minutes.
I offer a free 20-minute consultation so that we can decide together if I am the right counsellor for you. To arrange a consultation, please contact me using the link at the top of the page.
Availability
Thursday and Friday daytime. My session times are:
08:30, 9:45, 11:00, 12:45 and 02:00.
Subject to availability.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Post Graduate Diploma in Humanistic Counselling - Level 7 - York St John University
- Certificate in Counselling - Level 5 - York St John University
- Certificate in Understanding Autism - Level 2
- Understanding ADHD - Level 1
- Mental Capacity Awareness Level 1 and 2
- Safeguarding Adults level 1 and 3
- The Care Act 2014
- Data Protection Act 2018
- IDAS Sexual Violence Basic Awareness
- IDAS Domestic Abuse Basic Awareness
- Oliver McGowan Training on Learning disabilities and Autism
- Online and Telephone Counselling
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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Fees
£55.00 per session
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