About me
Are you looking for support through some difficult times? Whether you've had a recent upset, or there's something historical you'd like to reflect on, contact me to arrange a 15-minute FOC phone call to find out if I'm the right person to help you.
I offer a safe, non-judgmental, confidential space where you can explore, make sense of, manage and transform those sometimes overwhelming thoughts, behaviours, feelings and emotions.
I strive to empower clients to discover their inner strength and balance. I help them understand the connection between what's going on in the external world and how that can affect us. This knowledge often helps us handle life's triggers with more ease.
Navigating significant life transitions—such as someone's death, a relationship breakdown, a recent loss, a change of job or home, a traumatic event, or a life-altering illness—I know can be tough. Reaching out for support takes courage, but understanding and working through symptoms of loss, grief, depression, low mood, trauma, stress or anxiety can be a vital step toward healing and living a more easeful life.
If appropriate, I integrate nature, mindfulness and therapeutic writing as a means of supporting peoples' wellbeing, weaving in elements from various therapeutic approaches to best fit each person as a unique individual.
In addition to online sessions I work from Satori, a nature based healing retreat on the Blackdown Hills between Taunton, Honiton and Wellington. I also run therapeutic self-development workshops throughout the year at different venues locally to me and in London.
Satori is ancient and beautiful, filled with moss, small rivers and wildlife - ideal for stimulating our best healing. All first sessions are held online or indoors. Subsequent sessions can be indoors or out on the land if appropriate.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a trauma informed therapist and hold an Advanced Level-4 diploma in Integrative Counselling. I'm also a Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) psychotherapist - 'psyche' meaning mind and 'motor' movement/body.
I won't be surprised if you've not have heard of the transformational approach of PBSP as it's still not well know in the UK. That said, if you turn to chapter-18 of the excellent book (which I recommend) The Body Keeps the Score, written by one of the world's leading trauma experts - Bessel van der Kolk (who is also a PBSP therapist) - he shares his experience of working with Albert Pesso and the PBSP method.
Integrative Counselling often helps clients get an understanding of what's happening for them in the hear and now. I might introduce various mindful techniques to make processing your thoughts and feelings easier, and strive to help people understand why they might get triggered in the way they do. Every session is unique as each person is unique. I'll support you in the way you need, checking along the way if what I'm offering is right for you.
PBSP is good for many different concerns and particularly excellent for helping with early childhood issues as well as past trauma - which so often can affect our present day. I help clients to create new 'ideal' memories so they gain a bodily felt sense of what it would have been like to get their needs met in exactly the way they needed. It's a powerful and life-changing method which can be used as a standalone therapy or alongside the integrative counselling I offer. Research has proven that if the brain has a different 'ideal-good' memory, it will choose that over the old unhelpful memory which can cause so much pain in the present (see my website for more information).
I work with adults one-to-one or in PBSP groups, of all ages, who seek support during difficult times with elements such as trauma, loss, grief or bereavement, anxiety and stress. You are welcome to get in touch to see if I'm the right person for your unique needs.
I am committed to continued professional development (CPD), having completed courses such as:
- Multiple and continued advanced PBSP trainings with Juliet Grayson and Sandy Cotter (both trainers and supervisors in the UK PBSP Training Institute) 2023/24/25/26.
- Therapeutic Journaling/Writing with Claire Williamson
- Trauma-Informed Essentials with Lou Lebentz
- Single Session Therapy with Windy Dryden
- Eco-therapy Re-Wilding with Deb Miller, Jane Sanders & Richard Southon
- Working with Shame with David Bedrick
- Series of Shame talks with Juliet Grayson and William Ayot
- Ingham Method, International Institute of Reflexology
I hold an ITC certificate in Outdoor First Aid at SCQF Level 6 - 2024
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.
Accredited register membership
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Fees
£50.00 - £75.00
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Additional information
Some concessionary rates available, please ask.
As standard, 10% off for counselling and psychotherapy students.
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Further information
Here is a bit more information about PBSP (you can also find more links and info on my website):
"Most therapies help you cope with issues, PBSP helps to resolve issues, creating deep change and healing.” Juliet Grayson - PBSP UK Trainer & UKCP Psychotherapist
PBSP is a unique, creative and liberating therapy which helps us become more empowered by letting go of old, unhelpful patterns of behaviour that limit us in the present. The method helps us create new ideal memories to fit (countershape) what we needed to have happened in the past, helps us become aware of our own therapeutic process, and supports us to feel grounded and attain a greater sense of self.
In addition to PBSP psychotherapy and counselling, I offer reflexology--a deeply relaxing body based therapy. I work the reflexes on your feet or hands which helps to get your body in balance and in the best place to do its own healing, restoration and repair.
There are two accommodations at Satori available for clients/guests to hire. You can create a retreat for yourself, mind, body and soul by adding counselling, PBSP or reflexology whilst submerging yourself in natures healing environment...all very mindful and calming for the body and mind...then doodle and write your journal under the illumination of the starry-night skies.
