About me
Welcome to my profile page and well done for taking a first step towards healing and recovery from the issues that are affecting you.
I am an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant and Counsellor, trained in CBT. I have over 15 years & several thousand hours of extensive experience in helping those suffering from a variety of issues including Trauma, PTSD, and all forms of abuse and Childhood Trauma. I provide a relaxed, confidential, safe, non-judgemental environment to explore the issues that are affecting you and, when appropriate, reprocess dysfunctionally stored memories that may be impacting on your daily functioning. My aim is to assist you to unravel your thoughts and make sense of your symptoms, providing you with grounding techniques and resources, that will strengthen your ability to regulate and tolerate your emotions and enhance healing for the brain and body.
I use a variety of counselling approaches including CBT, IFS and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) - Recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for the treatment of trauma and PTSD.
Of course, not everyone who comes to therapy is suffering from obvious trauma. I also work with a variety of issues such as depression, anxiety disorders, panic, bereavement, addiction, low self-esteem, separation and divorce, family and work issues.
I have a humorous, direct approach to my clients, coupled with a friendly, genuine empathy, creating a bespoke helping model of management strategies and techniques to help you achieve healing and your full potential.
I am an Accredited Consultant of EMDR Europe, All-Ireland, UK.
A Registered member of British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, and an Accredited Member of The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.
Training, qualifications & experience
Foundation Degree in Counselling UUJ
Further Certificates in:
- EMDR Training Level 1 & 2
- EMDR Consultant Training
- Attachment Focused EMDR
- Complex Developmental Trauma and Dissociative Process in EMDR
- Healing Complex Trauma & Dissociation with Ego State Therapy and EMDR
- IFS - Parts
- Working with OCD
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Trauma Management
- Building Self Esteem
- Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Brief Solution Focused Therapy (BSFT)
- Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control
- Mental Health First Aid
- Asist (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
- Risk assessment and management
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
- Trauma, PTSD, Complex PTSD
- Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs)
- Developmental Trauma
- Attachment Trauma
- Co-dependency
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Weight Issues and Comfort Eating (Emotional Eating)
- Stress Management
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Prices from £70 per session.
Group EMDR Supervision - 3 persons = £45 per 1.5 hours
- 4 persons = £40 per 2 hours
When I work
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Further information
I use the following venue:-
POD 1
25 Grovehill Road, Loughbrickland, Banbridge BT32 3NF
(the old primary school by the lake)
Free car parking with wheelchair access.
If you have any questions or you wish to contact me, you can send me an email, text, or leave a voice mail on my phone. I will respond as quickly as possible and arrange a time that suits you to either meet or have a conversation about the service I offer.
I am also available to give talks and presentations to church or community groups and organisations on a variety of issues;-
- Mental Health Awareness
- Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control - spot the signs
- How EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) can help me.
- Overcoming Depression
- Overcoming Anxiety
- Overcoming Low Self Esteem
Please contact me for inquiries and further information via mobile (07762614830) or email me here
