About me
I am now offering face-to-face, telephone, email and online video appointments.
If you're here looking for a counsellor, there's a good chance life isn't quite how you need it to be at the moment. Perhaps your life isn't meeting expectations, or possibly it is and you still feel unhappy? Maybe you feel the world is against you, or you are constantly fighting yourself? Do you find the past is holding tight, you struggle to calm your mind or find that light at the end of the tunnel? If so, I believe what I offer may help.
It is my aim, using my Humanistic therapy training, to offer you a space where you can become your own champion, use the skills and strengths you have to get yourself where you need to be. My role is to be the student of you, and through you teaching me about you and your life, and my learning, observations and curiosity around this; it is my experience that you will come to learn more about what works, what doesn't and how to move forward and get you closer to the version of you and a way of life that leaves you content.
Training, qualifications & experience
A brief history of my journey in mental health training and experience - Following completion of my BA (Hons.) in Psychology in 2008, I worked as support staff in various mental health wards gainng a variety of experiences with individuals with diverse needs while doing my certificates in basic counselling skills. While gaining my first counselling qualifications I began volunteering with York Samaritans where I worked as a listening volunteer, director of ongoing training and was part of the team training new volunteers. This was done alongside my Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2010-12) where I completed placements in Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation, A Secondary School and a Sixth Form College. I continued on to the research year which changed my qualification into a Masters degree. Since then I worked with the NHS in Hull, where I worked with anyone who requests mental health support in Hull through their GP, again providing me with a phenomenally diverse client range. I also spent 2 years working part time with a young peoples charity offering counselling in educational settings, between the ages of 10 and 25. I began working privately during May 2022 and this has become my full time role since April 2023.
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
As a humanistic therapist, I work with the person rather than 'the issue', my work revolves around helping us create a relationship where you feel you can explore, learn and develop ways of coping or dealing with the challenges life holds for you, so I would encourage you to talk with me around the specifics of your needs and if we are an appropriate fit for getting you where you want to be, rather than purely the symptoms or textbook definitions of your challenges, as in my experience these come from somewhere, and do not exist in isolation from the rest of your life, so it can be valuable to zoom out and look at the big picture.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free initial consultation of around 20-30 minutes for you to get a sense of if I feel like the right therapist for you, and for me to get a sense of if I can offer you the support you need. Should you choose to continue, my fee is £60 per 1 hour session. Length, frequency and number of sessions can be negotiated, and I aim to offer a limited number of reduced rate sessions (on a case by case basis) with the intention that anyone who feels I'm the right therapist for them can have some opportunity and access for us to work together.
When I work
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Further information
There is free parking on Melbourne Street outside my office building for up to an hour.
I have recently completed the taught elements of a certificate in Clinical Supervision, and am looking for some practice hours to gain my certificate, and am happy to offer a few pro-bono sessions until my certificate is official.
I would encourage anyone who may think I could be the right therapist for them to reach out and book in a no obligation initial consultation, I don't give people the hard sell, I think it's really important that we are both confident moving forward.
