About me
Life can feel overwhelming at times — whether through grief, loss, change, or simply the weight of day-to-day challenges. I offer a safe, compassionate space where you can share your thoughts and feelings openly, without judgement. My own journey with counselling showed me how powerful it can be to feel truly heard and understood, and this inspired me to train as a counsellor and psychotherapist so that I could offer the same support. I am an Integrated Therapist with a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Specialisms
I specialise in bereavement, pre-bereavement, and loss — including work with children and young people in hospice settings. I also have extensive experience supporting people who are neurodivergent, from diverse backgrounds, and from different faiths, identities, disabilities, cultures. and trauma-informed approaches to loss and major incident response. My practice is inclusive, affirming, and shaped around your unique needs. I also have significant experience working in groups and one-to-one with ME, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. I have also got vast experience working with attachment theory and skills. I am also a couples therapist and family therapist. I am also a clinical supervisor.
Practicalities
I offer counselling, psychotherapy and Clinical supervision online and face to face. Sessions are confidential and tailored to you, providing a space to explore whatever is on your mind, at your own pace.
I offer short and long term counselling. My aim is to help identity patterns of behaviour which may no longer serve you, and help you relate better to yourself and the world around you.
Experience
My professional background spans teaching in adult education, special educational needs (as a communication assistant), and a child protection officer within North Somerset Council and CYP child protection lead in a hospice centre. I am also a Makaton Regional Tutor, bringing expertise in communication and accessibility into my therapeutic work. Currently, I practice as a CYP Bereavement Counselling Specialist within a local hospice setting, offering both pre-bereavement and bereavement support. I also mentor and supervise students including PHd counselling students, play therapy students and music therapy students. I also manage and supervise the companion service. I also deliver training in all areas of bereavement and pre-bereavement within the hospice setting..
How I work
I use an integrative approach, which means I draw on different therapeutic models to suit your individual needs. Together, we may explore your past experiences, present challenges, and hopes for the future, while I offer a safe and trusting space for you to discover your own way forward. I work with both adults and children/young people, creating a supportive environment where every aspect of who you are is respected and valued.
Whilst using this approach I incorporate the following:
Transactional Analysis, a psychoanalytic theory and therapy method that analyses social interactions to understand behaviour by examining the ego states of the Parent, Adult and Child Ego states. Also exploring Life Scripts and how they can affect behaviours, but also possibilities of changing Life Scripts.
Psychodynamic Therapy a theory that explores the unconscious mind and past experiences to understand current behaviours and feelings, aiming for self-awareness and emotional growth. Helping clients have a deeper understanding of what is happening to them and why.
Person Centred Therapy a theory which emphasises on the client's perspective and self-directed growth through a supportive and empathetic relationship, remaining Congruent, Empathetic, and having Unconditional Positive Regard. This theory also remains client centred.
Gestalt a Humanistic theory of Psychotherapy that emphasises personal responsibility and focuses in the present moment, encouraging self-awareness and understanding of one's thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Also looking at different body languages during exploration through our work.
Transpersonal Approach emphasising the spiritual and transcendent aspects of human experience, aiming to foster wholeness and self-actualisation beyond the limitations of the ego, and humanistic prospectives emphasising inherent human goodness, free will, and the potential for growth and self-actualisation, focusing on the individual's subjective experience and striving for meaning and purpose.
I also incorporate Somatic therapy using a body-centred form of psychotherapy exploring chronic stress, trauma and difficult emotions that are stored in physical sensations within the nervous systems.
Couples therapy providing a safe and supportive space to help explore roots of disconnection. I remain non-judgemental and do not point a finger or blame.
Family therapy helping those in close relationships improve how they communicate, solve conflicts and support each other. Looking at the whole family system. Building on shared strengths and deep seated issues.
I remain congruent, authentic and genuine with my clients. This helps build a good therapeutic relationship. Helping the client become their true self, helping to build trust within our work and creating a safe space.
I use unconditional positive regard and acceptance. This means that I genuinely care about my clients and I do not judge or evaluate their thoughts and feelings or good or bad behaviours. Each client is valued and accepted for who they are.
"Peace is liberty in tranquility" Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace" Dalai Lama
"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be", Maya Angelou
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications and Continued Professional Development
- MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy with Distinction
- Clinical Supervisor
- Counselling Level 3
- Counselling Level 2
- Makaton Regional Tutor
- Further and Adult Education Teaching Qualification Certificate level 3
- Equality Act Training
- Diploma in Menopause Wellness
- Certificate in Attachment Theory and Skills
- Cruse Bereavement Care Training
- Anxiety in the Wake of Loss: Strategies for Working with the Missing Stage of Grief
- Shattered Assumptions: Treat Grieving Clients Whose Work Has Been Turned Upside Down
- Anticipatory Grief: Helping Clients Face Impending Loss and Uncertain Futures
- Kids and Loss: How to Work with Uniqueness of a Child's Grief
- Grief Work in Virtual Settings: New Tools to Create Support and Connection
- Unattended Grief: Interventions to Facilitate Healthy Grieving
- Compassion Fatigue: Prevention for Professionals Who Work with Grief and Trauma
- Traumatic Grief: Cognitive, Behavioural and Somatic Approaches
- Reach Across Divides: Cultural and Difference Focused Practices in Grief Work
- Grief After Suicide: Transition Survivors from Why to What's Next?
- Bereaved by Suicide
- Working with Suicidal Clients
- Major Incident Response Training
- Supporting People with Dementia and those close to them
- Advanced Inter Agency Child Protection Lead
- Bereavement Prison Training
- A Matter of Life and Death - Irvin Yalom
- Attachment through life stages - Psychosocial development
- Sex, Heart and Attachment
- The Psychology of Unconscious Life Patterns - Richard Erskine
- Diversity - Dwight Turner
- Domestic Abuse - Cat Chappell
- Master Class in Grief and Loss - David Kessler
- Assertiveness Training
- Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives Workshop - Sheri Pitteway
- Addiction (We are here for you) Training
- Phobia training
- Grief and Loss Level 2
- Self-Care Certificate
- Mindfulness Diploma
- Diploma in Psychology
- A’level Psychology
- A’level Sociology
- Certificate in Couples Therapy
- Online and Telephone Counselling Certificate Course
- Understanding and managing ADHD
- working therapeutically with autistic clients
- Internal Family Systems level 6
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 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.
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.
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
From £55.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Concessions offered to
Low income
Trainee Counsellors
Unemployed
When I work
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I offer a 20 minute free initial session to find out more about each other and to help you decide if you would like to work with me.
Further information
Qualifications
Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy with Distinction
British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy -Registered Member
National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society - Accredited Member
