About me
Are you going through a difficult and challenging period that is affecting how you cope with daily life? Are you struggling with feeling lost/identity, neurodiversity, mental health difficulties, anxiety disorder/s, depression, abuse/bullying, anger, bereavement/separation/loss, trauma or low self-esteem/confidence? I can provide a safe place from which you can move on in life, to heal, explore, discover and experience your journey with greater understanding, insight and awareness.
I have 17 years' experience working in therapy and work with a broad spectrum of Clients presenting with a wide variety of issues.
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Contact
To discuss how you might like to take a referral forward why not contact me to arrange an introductory call. If I am unavailable, just send a text or email me leaving your contact details and I will get back to you within 24hrs.
Therapeutic Approaches & How I Work
My main therapeutic approaches come from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness, & Internal Family Systems.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: CBT works with negative thoughts, feelings, assumptions/conditional assumptions, core beliefs and schema and illustrates how patterns might be attributed to self. This approach enables the individual to stand back from their situation and explains how individuals can link new information to existing knowledge. Techniques used include cognitive rehearsal, imagery, socratic questioning and exposure relapse prevention.
Mindfulness: Complementing this approach is Mindfulness. Mindfulness brings attention to the breath, the experience of the moment and works with the acceptance and willingness to be.
Internal Family Systems: Interwoven into my practice is the Internal Family Systems approach. This model reveals how constraints can impinge upon the individual's inner parts and subsequently how those parts might take up their roles in hiding, protecting and/or sabotaging other parts. This approach aims to depolarise and unburden these parts by negotiating their internal roles as well as helping to retrieve vulnerable parts that have been stuck in the past. It is a non-pathologising approach that enhances awareness and understanding of one's internal world.
The therapy process will consist of
- Listening to what is troubling you. Exploring how you see those problems and how this effects you
- Working together collaboratively towards your identified goals
- Developing and establishing a good therapeutic relationship & regular review thus taking account of how the therapy process is working for you.
I hold a spiritual/creative, relational and educative perspective to therapy and am passionate about individual potential and creative inner strengths that can bring about change.
Professional Membership
I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and adhere to the Ethical Framework of Good Practice. This covers issues of confidentiality, the supervision of my work, continuing professional development and insurance.
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, August 2008. Since qualifying, I have been working with various Employment Assistant Programs as well as with private Clients. Whilst studying, I worked for charitable organisations, working alongside persons with mild/enduring mental health problems. I became an Accredited Counsellor with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2011 and have been practising since 2008.
Diploma in Social Work, March 1995. I worked as a Social Worker for approximately six years in Long Term Looked After & Child Protection Teams. Previous to this, I worked as an Assistant Unit Manager for three years in Local Authority adolescent units.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
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Fees
£55.00 - £60.00
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fee is £60 per session. The fees for block bookings are £55.00 per session.
Fees can be paid via bank transfer, cheque or by cash.
I can be flexible during the week and can also consider weekends if needed.
When I work
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