About me
Hello, my name is Cornetta. Thank you for visiting my profile.
I am an experienced trauma and attachment-based psychotherapist, as well as a relationship therapist. My clientele includes young individuals, adults, couples, families, and other partnerships. I offer support for those experiencing 'system overload,' often attributed to excessive social media use, which can adversely affect mental health by diminishing focus and fulfillment and exacerbating conditions such as ADHD and depression.
In addition, I provide a private and confidential space tailored for professionals who require coaching and leadership support, helping them navigate workplace challenges and enhance their personal growth.
In my practice, I provide a safe environment for all individuals to express themselves, regardless of gender, race, age, abilities, appearance, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, class, education, etc. Additionally, I have worked with senior leadership teams, nationally, and international clients, bringing a diverse and well-rounded perspective to my therapeutic approach.
Couples / Non-Binary Relationships
I specialize in fostering emotional connection, assertive communication, and intimacy. My expertise encompasses addressing issues such as negative communication, cohesive control, domestic violence, sex addiction/substance use, and infertility.
Individual
My services include goal setting, life skills coaching, anxiety and depression management, addressing shame, and healing from trauma associated with narcissistic relationships. I also assist those experiencing sexual compulsivity, including porn, love, and cyber addictions. Additionally, I provide compassionate support for individuals struggling with prolonged bereavement, aiding in the process of grief, finding meaning, and rebuilding their lives after loss.
Bereavement Counselling
For individuals experiencing loss or divorce, I offer counselling tailored to those who struggle with the natural course of bereavement. The process begins with an assessment to ensure that bereavement counselling is appropriate at this time. Sessions aim to address unresolved emotions, facilitate healing, and explore impactful strategies to move forward while honouring the grieving process.
This counselling is designed for those navigating grief with complexities that may include feelings of isolation, confusion, or overwhelming sadness. By focusing on individual needs, this service ensures a compassionate approach to understanding and overcoming the challenges associated with loss.
Improving Sleep
I offer tailored strategies to help clients enhance their sleep patterns, addressing common issues such as insomnia, restless nights, and sleep hygiene. Techniques include mindfulness exercises, relaxation training, and cognitive restructuring to establish healthier and more restorative sleep cycles.
Young People
I create a secure space for young individuals to communicate, with sessions every six weeks involving the caregiver.
Families
I address attachment and parenting skills, infertility, mental health, and divorce issues. This includes involvement in court proceedings and managing cases of parental alienation.
My approach involves mindful attention to your life with compassion, acceptance, openness, curiosity, and sensitivity. If you believe I may be of assistance, please contact me for further information.
Post-Traumatic Recovery
· Enhanced self-appreciation and life appreciation
· Resilience and goal setting
· Self-compassion
· Improved relationships
· Recognition of personal strengths
· New possibilities and spiritual change
I aim to facilitate positive behavioral changes and eliminate detrimental habits. I have extensive experience working with actors, singers, and creatives on performance-related issues such as anxiety and depression. Currently, I am providing non-managerial counseling to NHS staff to address work-related stress.
Interests and Passions
I am dedicated to positive psychology, whole-system approaches, recovery models, and mindfulness. My interests include attachment theory, IFT, neuroscience, meditation, spirituality, and recovery. I specialize in assisting couples and individuals facing challenges related to emotional communication, self-compassion, attachment issues, separation, divorce, fertility, compassion fatigue, resilience, guilt, shame, and domestic abuse (victims).
Working with Men
I routinely assist men in enhancing their emotional communication, stress management, assertiveness, vulnerability, and understanding of masculinity. I possess comprehensive knowledge of parental alienation and associated legal proceedings.
Hypersexuality / Sexual Compulsivity
I support clients dealing with problematic sexual behaviors. My work encompasses couples, individuals, and partners struggling with internet pornography, sexual dysfunction, and attachment issues. I also cater to individuals with love addiction or cross-addictions, including those identified with BPD. Conversion therapy is not promoted.
LGBTQ2S+
While I am heterosexual, I offer a welcoming environment for members of the LGBTQ2S+ community. My experience extends to working with individuals identifying as BIPOC and/or trans.
Neurodivergent Individuals
As someone with dyslexia and ADHD, I provide a safe space to discuss and transform self-limiting beliefs affecting career advancement. I have collaborated extensively with teams and individuals on issues surrounding race, gender, compassion fatigue, discrimination, intersectionality, power dynamics, employment, complex trauma, and personal development.
Session Overview
The initial counseling session is a comprehensive assessment lasting about 50 minutes (up to 2 hours for Adult ADHD assessments, including input from a family member). Full payment is required prior to report processing and session planning.
For clients with trauma, addiction, sleep issues, or mood concerns, additional assessments may be necessary. Assessments for sex or pornography addiction will encompass attachment history and trauma.
Couples begin with individual sessions to assess each partner's needs and strengths before joint counselling. Cases involving parental alienation require court directions, including psychological assessments and orders, with a minimum of 10 sessions and additional time for report writing.
Standardized tools like PHQ-9 (depression), GAD-7 (anxiety), and DASH (domestic abuse) are employed as needed to aid case formulation and guide therapy. Early sessions focus on gathering information, understanding issues, and designing a therapy plan. Progress reviews ensure alignment with goals.
Practical Information
· Sessions are held weekly or fortnightly.
· Regular attendance is essential.
· Cancellations require 48 hours’ notice.
· Payment is due in advance of each session.
Session Overview
The initial counselling session is a comprehensive assessment lasting about 50 minutes (up to 2 hours for Adult ADHD assessments, including input from a family member). Full payment is required prior to report processing and session planning.
For clients with trauma, addiction, sleep issues, or mood concerns, additional assessments may be necessary. Assessments for sex or pornography addiction will encompass attachment history and trauma.
Couples begin with individual sessions to assess each partner's needs and strengths before joint counseling. Cases involving parental alienation require court directions, including psychological assessments and orders, with a minimum of 10 sessions and additional time for report writing. Early sessions focus on gathering information, understanding issues, and designing a therapy plan. Progress reviews ensure alignment with goals.
Practical Information
Sessions are held weekly or fortnightly. Regular attendance is essential. Cancellations require 48 hours’ notice. Payment is due in advance of each session.
If you would like to speak to me further, please just call, text, or click here to send me an email and I will get back to you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a lifelong learner with an MSc in Addiction Psychology and Counselling, a Master's certificate in working with Children and Young People (CYP), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Systemic Practice. I hold a JNC-qualified BA Hons in Youth and Community work. Throughout my career, I have obtained numerous qualifications and training related to working with both CYP and adults. I employ clinical techniques that promote sustainable recovery, starting from where the individual is at.
My current CPD areas include Trauma, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
Training Record
· UKAAN Pharmacological Treatment of Adults with ADHD (2025)
· UKAAN Assessment and Diagnosis of Adults with ADHD (2025)
· UCL Understanding ADHD- future learning (2024)
· NOTA: Assessing and Managing People with Sexual Sadism and Violent Sexual Fantasies (2025)
· Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (2025) - Dr Raj Darjee presents:
· Certificate in Bereavement Counselling - Dr John Wilson (6 weeks)
· Working with Shame -Carolyn Spring (2024)
· Certificate in Sleep Recovery (2024)
· Certificate-deb-danas-polyvagal-theory-action-creating-safety-connection-trauma-clients (12hours) (2024)
· Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (2024)
· Depth Psychology – Weekend University (2024)
· Attachment Theory -Professor Jeremy Homes – Weekend University (Feb 2024)
· Understanding and Responding to Sexual Violence RCSL (2023)
· ‘Addiction as an Attachment Disorder: Attachment Gone Wrong (2023)
· National Substance Misuse Non Medical Prescriber Form (2023)
· Working with relational Trauma: dealing with Disorganised Attachment- Carolyn Spring (2023)
· Suicide Prevention Skills (2023)
· Child Sexual Abuse - Carolyn Spring (2023)
· Day on men’s mental health Weekend University (2022)
· Dr. Sue Johnson's Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment based interventions for couples in crisis (2022)
· Soothing the Threatened Brain: Using Attachment Science to Create Bonding, Satisfying Relationships with Sue Johnson, Ed.D.(2022)
· WLA Model: Aspiring Managers - 6-day course (2019)
· Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership (2018)
· Leadership Management Class from Vision to Action (2018)
· Strategic People Management (2018)
· IBC Systems Training for Managers (2018)
· 6-day Mindful Leadership Training (2018)
· County Lines Training (2018)
· Level 3 Safeguarding Adults (2018)
· WRAP Training (2018)
· Understanding the Dynamics of an Abusive Relationship, Skills and Tools to Support Survivors of Domestic Abuse, Working with Perpetrators (2017)
· ACT and Compassion Training (2017)
· Motivational Interviewing (2016)
· Focus on Practice Parenting Approaches (2016)
· Signs of Safety (2016)
· PTSD and Trauma - 2-day (2016)
· Mindfulness Champions (2015)
· Safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act (2014)
· First Aid (2014)
· ITEP Psychosocial Intervention (2013)
· Anxiety (2011)
· Delay-SRE Trainer (2011)
· Resilience Training (2010)
· Mental Health and Parenting (2010)
· Safeguarding Children (2010)
· Child Protection (2006)
· Delay Training – SRE (2008)
· CAF Lead Professional/Assessing Training (2007)
· Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (2005)
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Student Mentoring and careers advice
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 - £130.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Online Counselling Fees: £70.00 for a 50-minute session
Couples counseling: £95 -£130
MBSR (Mindfulness) for Stress reduction: £70 per hour
Life coaching including work mentoring, resilience coaching sessions Fee: £800 for 12hour sessions
Clinical supervision Fees: £75 per hour.
When I work
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Further information
Online Counselling ( Zoom, Teams) and Telephone Counselling. Some face to face is available.
