About me
Are you starting to feel like there are answers for how you are right now that remain just out of reach? That your search is starting to dominate your behaviour both in and out of work, your emotions are harder to control, and a good night's sleep feels like a distant memory?
Life sometimes moves along in ways that take us by surprise, challenging our normally reliable coping mechanisms as we try to find a way to work through our relationships with family, friends and colleagues.
At points anxiety, depression and stress all seem like they might fit you, but they don't quite feel right.
With over 20 years of experience as an integrative counsellor, I specialise in helping you work through your recent experiences and reconnect with your sense of control in life.
Whether anxiety, stress or depression have taken hold of how you live and work, I'm committed to working with you to find a way back to the version of yourself you recognise. To build an understanding of your experience, and the structures to help keep you there.
My work is to support you during these difficult moments, to help you with how and why you find yourself where you are, to look at how to work towards the future and what to do to avoid returning to patterns that have been harmful.
This might mean looking back to your past to bring some of that into the present, to help shape the future.
I value the unique experience and perspective of life that you bring with you, and I will work with you to make sure that any change is right and consistent with your individuality.
Over time I've realised that many clients arrive in therapy with concerns about the quality or quantity of their sleep, which can affect the time it takes to work through their issues in our sessions. To help with this, I've trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). Whether your sleep is suffering because of your issues, or sleep itself is the issue, there's a place for you.
I've built a workplace counselling practice, working with people who have issues around their working life and how it affects their relationships. If there's no room to deal with it at work, there's room to deal with it in my practice.
To help with your choice for the right therapist, I'm happy to organise a 15 minute video call before booking a first appointment. The call is free of charge, as is the first appointment, if you decide I am not the right therapist for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Integrative Counsellor, BSc (Hons) Counselling
- Whitelands College, University of Roehampton, 2007
- Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP 387205)
- CBT-I training, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
- Over twenty years of clinical experience including practice in justice system, NHS primary care, work place counselling and private 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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Early in my career I worked within the justice system, in a male-only environment that shaped how I work with men who find it difficult to ask for help or articulate what they're carrying.
From there I moved into NHS primary care, working with GP and self-referred clients within a session-limited model, where I learned that focused, time-limited work can be as effective as open-ended therapy when the relationship is strong.
More recently I have built a workplace counselling practice across healthcare, education, retail and corporate settings, with presenting issues including stress, anxiety, depression, burnout and relationship difficulties at work.
Alongside this, I've come to see how often sleep sits underneath the work. Many clients arrive with poor sleep tangled up in their difficulties, sometimes as a symptom, sometimes as the problem itself. I trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) so that sleep can be worked with directly, rather than left to sort itself out.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £74.00
Additional information
Online sessions £60 in person £74.
I offer a free 15-minute video call before booking, and the first session is complimentary if we decide I'm not the right fit for you.
If you are on an NHS Talking Therapies waiting list for longer-term (Step 3) work, and feel you have waited long enough, I offer up to 12 sessions at £14 per session. Please contact me for details.
When I work
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Further information
I am from a British and Spanish background, born, raised, educated and trained as a therapist in the UK. I offer therapy in English with a working understanding of Spanish language and culture, and a basic level of Catalan.
I work to an integrative model combining Psychodynamic, Person-Centred, Existential and Cognitive Behavioural theory. All that said, what matters most is the therapeutic relationship we build.
