About me
With over 10 years of experience working in mental health and wellbeing, I provide authentic connection and support that enables you to explore, understand and resolve your challenges or goals safely and successfully.
Using my unique blend of lived and learned experience, I offer short and long-term talking therapy to adults aged 18 and over. With issues I can help with including stress, anxiety, low mood and depression, low self-esteem, relationship issues (at home or work), navigating separation and divorce (support for individuals, not couples), infertility, parenting, bereavement and loss, identity, culture and spirituality, physical health-related issues, trauma and personal development.
I also offer specialised support to women who wish to connect with their innate power within themselves and in relationships with others.
Although I work with people for who this is their first experience of counselling or therapy, many of my clients have had counselling before and are looking to reflect deeply upon themselves and their experiences to create real, sustained change in their thoughts, feelings or behaviours.
After an introductory phone call where you outline your issues and get a feel for me and how I might work with you, you decide whether I am the right person to support you or not. Regular sessions are then 50 minutes long and can be offered in person, online or over the phone.
Currently I am taking on new clients as part of my weekend practice, that runs every other Saturday morning (fortnightly).
As a person-centred practitioner, I tailor my support to help you in the way you uniquely need. As part of this individualised approach, I apply my degree-level training from across a broad range of Humanistic disciplines. Including: Attachment Theory, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Transpersonal approaches, Life Course Theory, Focusing and more. If you would find it useful, we can also use alternative therapeutic approaches such as creative arts and sandtray therapy to explore your challenges.
Training, qualifications & experience
Level 6 Undergraduate Degree in Humanistic Counselling - University of Chichester
Extensive additional professional training in Trauma Informed Practice
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
£55.00 - £65.00
Concessions offered for
Further information
Current availability on Saturday mornings every other week (fortnightly appointments).
