About me
I am a professionally qualified integrative psychotherapist and counsellor and an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psycotherapy.
Some of the issues that I have experience and expertise include:
- Addiction (including sexual addiction and work addiction)
- Attachment and intimacy problems
- Anxiety, panic and feelings of emptiness
- Betrayal
- Childhood neglect and abuse (emotional, physical, sexual)
- Cultural identity and marginalisation
- Depression and dissociation
- Eating Disorders
- Family dysfunction and estrangement
- Loneliness and isolation
- Loss, abandonment and bereavement
- Rage and self-sabotage
- Sexuality and sexual identity
- Shame and low self-esteem
- Trauma (including complex, developmental, trans-generational and racialised trauma).
How can I help you?
I believe that therapy is a collaborative process that can help a person to understand and make sense of their own story and the person that they are.
I provide a warm, empathic and non-judgmental environment for my clients to help explore their thoughts and feelings, make sense of conflicting emotions and behaviours, gain a deeper understanding of themselves and reach their true potential. I believe in the uniqueness of the therapeutic relationship and the potential to tap into an individual’s inherent strengths for making their own choices in life.
How do I work?
I have an integrative approach to psychotherapy, which means I have several ways of working with clients according to the client’s needs. For example, using psychodynamic approach which pays attention to past experiences that may have a negative influence on present life, as well as humanistic approach which focuses on here and now and the client's reality.
I offer long-term work or shorter periods of focused counselling.
What next?
The first step is to arrange an initial appointment to see if counselling could work for you. We will use the first session to see whether we can work together.
At our first session, we will discuss the main difficulties that brought you to therapy, explore the way to work together that may best suit you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a counsellor and psychotherapist in south London and online, with specialist expertise in inter-cultural complexities, and particular trauma and complex trauma.
I qualified from the professional training at the City and Islington Integrative psychotherapy. Since then, I have worked with a diverse range of clients, both in the NHS (South London NHS Foundation Trust) and in other organisations. I am a an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), abiding by their code of ethics.
Prior to my career in psychotherapy, I spent 20 years as a technologist, driven by a passion for analytics and emerging technologies and the opportunities they present. My analytical curiosity led me to integrate my interests in technology and psychology, focusing on human behaviour, emotional growth, and neuroscience.
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.
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
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fee is £65 for individuals and £85 for couples. I review my fees in January each year.
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