About me
I can help you better understand your state of mind, help you order and process whatever it is that is troubling you. Facilitating your own exploration of your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and experiences, so you come to terms with what you're dealing with: often those memories, events, thoughts, feelings, that take up too much of your mind and energy.
My practice is centred around the following three principles:
- A private, informal, down to earth approach, willing to listen to whatever it is that's on your mind.
- No judgement, no pressure, no expectation; I don't over-complicate things, and I'll only ever be on a level with you.
- An understanding that we all have traumatic experiences and dips in our mental health, me included; as well as the knowledge that we can manage them, overcome them, and/or learn to accept them.
Depending on what it is you want to work on, I can also help you develop coping skills and strategies for an improved mindset, providing techniques, skills, and approaches so you can maintain a positive head-space long after your therapy sessions.
As well as my formal training, I draw on a range of my own personal life experiences and mental health struggles - experiences that I've processed and overcome, so I know it's possible - and will only ever listen to you with an open mind and completely without judgement.
Training, qualifications & experience
Fully qualified Psychotherapist and Counsellor, educated to Master's level.
I take a Relational, Person-Centred, Integrative approach, which might not mean much to you right now so I've outlined it below:
Relational: An approach centred on the importance of authentic connections, viewing the therapeutic relationship as crucial to growth.
Person-centred: Helps people to find their own solutions through a supportive, non-judgmental space built on empathy, through conversation led by you.
Integrative: A personalised approach to mental health that draws upon theory and techniques from various therapeutic models to create an approach tailored to an individual's unique needs.
Further specialised qualifications:
- Suicide Awareness & Managing Mental Health
- Veterans Suicide Awareness
- Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
- Social Anxiety Awareness
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
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
If you are a student, unemployed, a single parent, or a pensioner, please do let me know and we can have a chat about a reduced fee.
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