About me
With the right therapist, remarkable change can happen.
I’m pleased to say that I've been the right fit for many people, and I've had the privilege of joining them in their journeys from being stuck, sometimes with painfully low self-worth, hopelessness, shame or confusion, and I've seen them rediscover their value and their voice, begin to make sense of their past, and build a new foundation to help guide them into the future.
I provide sessions for £35 (or £25 if you’re a counselling student) online, or face-to-face from my private and comfortable counselling room, with a free online taster session to see if we click.
I use Person-Centered Therapy. Here’s what it’s all about.
Person-Centered therapy is a talking therapy, and that's what we'll do.
The aim is to provide you a comfortable and confidential space to talk as much or as little as you need to about the things that are important to you. In this space you'll be listened to without judgement and you'll have the focused attention of someone who genuinely wants to understand what it's like to walk in your shoes.
Within this kind of environment, many things can and do happen. For example, issues that were creating huge distress are shared and begin to lose some of their intensity. Complicated problems are given the space to be laid out, inspected, untangled and organised. Unrecognised wants and needs start to emerge and new confidence and self-valuing begins to bubble up.
These results are almost all completely down to you having the right conditions to self-heal and grow in the direction that's right for you. My job is to create those conditions, and occasionally, when appropriate, to gently help emergent moments of meaning and growth to catch hold and have the chance to take root.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Beverley College (since Feb 2025) and set up my own private practise in 2026.
Between 2023 and 2025 I volunteered in-house providing counselling sessions for Giroscope in Hull (a housing co-operative) for a year and a half) and for OSHI (an addiction service) for one year.
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
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Fees
£25.00 - £35.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Payment for an upcoming session needs to be completed at least an hour before the session starts. An online payment link will be emailed to you around 48 hours before the session start time. Payment by bank card or PayPal is accepted. A session wont take place if payment has not been made in time.
Further information
SESSION AND PAYMENT TERMS & CONDITIONS
The free first session is online only, and you need to be in a private and quiet space. The session can last up to 30 minutes.
Face to face sessions are held in a counselling room at my home on the first floor. If you're not able to manage stairs alternative session space can be arranged at an additional cost.
Face to face sessions are audio recorded to protect clients and myself, and to enhance my professional development.
Session days and times are agreed by us both before formal sessions begin (so during or after the free session) and they are fixed to that day and time - for example, every Wednesday at 11am.
To cancel a session I need to be informed (by email) at least an hour before the session start time or it will be logged as a late cancellation. Three late cancellations could result in all sessions being terminated.
Being late for a session will reduce your session time. You pay for a slot which begins at a fixed time.
Not attending a session twice without giving any notice will likely result in sessions being terminated.
Sessions can’t take place if I suspect that you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
You can quit having sessions completely at any time without notice, although I’d much prefer to hear about your reasons for ending sessions.
