About me
I work with adults and couples, giving each client or a couples relationship the primary focus throughout our sessions together.
As an Integrative Counsellor, I can offer you a variety of approaches, working with theory and concepts including Person Centred, Psychotherapy and CBT techniques. I also offer a Solution Focused Approach, for those who are looking for short term brief therapy. I am accredited in the Person Centred Experiential (CFD) Counselling for Depression, this type of counselling aims to help you get in touch with feelings under lining your depression. Make sense of them and develop new ways of looking at yourself and the world around you
If you are a couple looking to work on your relationship, I can offer a safe space for you both to explore your feelings. This could be a range of issues, such as improving communication, breakdown in trust, infidelity issues or just looking to reconnect.
If suitable, I can offer you a Solution Focused Approach. This is short term goal directed brief therapy. You will set goals and work towards achieving them. The focus is on the future rather than the past, encouraging positive change for a healthy and happier future.
I have experience of working with those managing difficult life events such as bereavement and loss, relationship problems, coping with difficult emotions such as grief, guilt, shame, sadness, anger, low self-esteem, depression and anxiety. I have also worked with work related stress and the menopause.
My practice has comfortable therapy rooms, located in Leighton Buzzard Town Centre. With flexibility of days, evenings and weekends. I offer both short term and open-ended therapy, face to face and video.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling
- Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- Certificate in Couples Counselling
- Accredited in Person Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (CfD) Modality.
- 5 Year’s experience at MIND (Mental Health Charity)
- Bereavement support for a Hospice
- Immediate Support Counsellor, working with an Employment Assistance Programme provider. Offering a Solution Focused Approached.
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
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Additional information
- £50 per 50 minute session for individual work. face to face.
- £65 for Couples work, 1 hour session, allowing 1.5hrs for the first session. ( I only offer couples face to face)
- I offer a free 30 minute telephone consultation, for you to decide if you would like to proceed
When I work
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