About me
I endeavour to provide a safe, comfortable, quiet space for clients to explore sensitive issues. The relationship between myself and the client is at the heart of my approach. I believe that being with a client and offering a compassionate holding presence while they share their story is essential to establish a therapeutic working alliance before offering insight and psycho education. I adapt my work to suit the needs of each client and integrate suitable interventions and tools to work with whatever the client is presenting.
I have a vast experience of working effectively with addictions and supporting affected others. My experience coupled with extensive research led me to the self-medicating hypothesis which inspired me to specialize in adverse childhood experiences, lifetime trauma, PTSD, attachment and self-regulation. I help clients process trauma, work with the symptoms and become aware of how their lives and behaviours can be controlled or affected by faulty neuroception, the non-conscious and subpersonalities. I am also very experienced in group facilitation, interpersonal psychotherapy and supervision of therapists (Therapists please see supervision section).
My fees are; £55 per hour, £75 per 90-minute couples’ session. £90 per 90-minute group facilitation (inc. group supervision). Supervision of therapists £55 per hour.
I work effectively with many areas such as; anxiety, depression, abuse, anger, phobias, separation and divorce, affairs and betrayals, bipolar disorder and many more which are listed below.
Please call me on the number above or email me (there is an email link provided at the top of this page) to arrange a free telephone assessment to talk about what you want from counselling
Training, qualifications & experience
My training started with two years of counselling studies with Plymouth University. Then my passion for further knowledge and research took me took me to the Iron Mill Collage in Exeter where I completed another two years full time degree (FDA) in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy. This was followed by a top up BA (Hons 1st) which I also took at the Iron Mill. Since then I have attended numerous ongoing professional development courses and conducted extensive ongoing research.
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
Fees
£55.00 per session
Additional information
£55 per hour
£80 per 90 minute couples session.
£90 per 90 minute group facilitation (Inc. group supervision)
Sessions held after 5pm cost an extra £10 per hour
Supervision for therapists is £50 per hour. Please see my supervision section on this site.
When I work
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Further information
I can help with
Identifying how you can be controlled by non conscious beliefs about yourself, others and the quality of life: Identifying pathological patterns in our ways of relating to others: Enhancing interpersonal skills and teaching you how to use repair mechanisms in relationships: Working on your sense of self and confidence
Clients I work with
Adults, Couples, EAP's, Groups, Older adults, Organisations, trainees, Counselling students, and Young people
How I deliver therapy
Long and short-term face-to-face work at my private practice, home visits, online counselling and telephone counselling.
