This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am a Counselling Psychologist available privately to work with a range of difficulties like anxiety, depression and low self-esteem mainly using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I can also provide psychological assessments and supervision to counsellors and psychologists.
I am keen to help people improve their quality of life through therapy, so they are not troubled and restricted by worries or low mood. With both an empathic nature and years of experience I believe I can enable people to understand their difficulties quickly and break negative patterns that might be holding them back. CBT is an active, goal focused therapy with strong evidence of success.
I draw on 20 years NHS experience and now moved to private practice to offer a high standard of psychological interventions with the immediacy and flexibility working independently can provide. In addition to CBT, I have training in humanistic counselling and family therapy.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been working in private practice since 2018 whilst simultaneously supervising trainee CBT therapists for Royal Holloway, University of London.
In the NHS I have led a large, primary care, talking therapies service for anxiety and depression. Before that, I worked with people with complex and enduring mental health problems and have led a mental health service for adults with learning disabilities.
I am Chartered by the British Psychological Society (BPS), registered with the Health & Care Professionals Council (HCPC) and accredited with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP).
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.
The BABCP is the lead organisation for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the UK. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the practice, theory or development of CBT. BABCP also provides accreditation for CBT therapists. BABCP accredited members adhere to the Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics in the Practice of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, and are willing to be scrutinised in this adherence as required.
British Psychological Society
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Psychological problems in the context of global learning disabilities.
Therapies offered
Fees
Additional information
Fees are dependent on time and location e.g. I can offer reduced fees for day time appointments and certain evenings. Please contact me directly to discuss fees.
When I work
Office hours and evenings available.
Further information
I offer day time and evening appointments in East Dulwich.
