About me
I am a UK-registered psychotherapist (MBACP) and published doctoral researcher specialising in trauma, resilience and growth.
I am also a keen mindfulness meditator with a daily practice, and have sat multiple vipassana retreats in Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand for up to 40 days at a time.
Sometimes we can become stuck or overwhelmed by life. Therapy offers a place to honour the reality of our lives, as well as a space to explore how we might engage with the world in new and fruitful ways. It may allow us to clarify what we value, and how we might approach this.
As a therapist, my role is to help you on your journey with a supportive and reflective space, as a fellow traveller. Ultimately, only you can know who you are and who you will become. I am not an expert who is going to tell you what to do or put you in a box and label you.
When we engage with what life has laid before us in a spirit of courage and wonder, we become alive, and our passions can run freely in our veins: we have our task.
When we avoid, we rob ourselves of life’s meaning, as well as the beauty and wisdom it has to disclose to us: we stagnate and deaden before our time is up.
Coming to therapy for the first time can be daunting. I do a single first session in which we can meet. You can then decide if you would like to continue.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a UK-registered psychotherapist (MBACP). I have a BA degree in Politics, Psychology and Sociology from the University of Cambridge, a Master’s in Psychology (distinction), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy. I am also a chartered management accountant (CIMA, UK), and have an MBA.
Previously, I grew and co-founded a number of organisations, including the turnaround of an international risk management company from 30 to over 500 employees in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Later, I was the director of an NGO providing drug addiction treatment, prevention and counselling services to Myanmar refugees, reaching 20,000 people a year over seven locations along the Thai-Myanmar border.
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
£150.00 per session
