About me
Hello, I’m Erika – a Person-Centred Therapist,
Well here you are, which I believe certainly means something for the both of us. If you're looking for a space where you will be truly seen, heard, and gently challenged toward growth, I would love to support you on your journey.
Throughout my own therapy journey, I often felt like I was going in circles with kind counsellors who hesitated to challenge me. This experience has fuelled my passion for offering compassionate challenge—a balance of warmth, honesty, and deep empathy. My work is also rooted in Buddhist values, which guide my belief in mindfulness, self-compassion, and growth. I believe healing involves not just the mind but also the body. Often, the missing piece in therapy is the disconnect we have from our physical selves. Integrating the body and nervous system into our work can be transformative as so much of the time, we are stuck in these cycles and shaming ourselves for our physiological responses. Especially as neurodivergent intellectualisers who are usually very self aware.
As someone who is neurodivergent, with a history of narcissistic relationships I understand firsthand the struggles that can come with it—comparing ourselves to others, internalising negative labels, like lazy, stupid, disgusting etc and feeling "not good enough." I am passionate about helping clients heal from narcissistic relationships, people pleasing, shame, perfectionism and over extending as well as exploring how childhood experiences shape the way we see the world today. These experiences shape my compassionate, client-centred approach.
I also have a strong interest in working with parents. As a parent of twins, I know how challenging it is to be a parent. I also understand how profoundly parenting reshapes us, uncovering unresolved wounds and unspoken emotions.
I have been where you are. I have had counselling with multiples therapists and I learnt through experience, the relationship really is the most important part of therapeutic change. If you really think about it, this is not just a doctor that needs to know about your symptoms so they can provide a pill. I am looking to see the world through your eyes and for that to happen, we have to connect. You have to be able to trust me, which I know can take tremendous courage.
I am humanely flawed, curious and I deeply care, I value and respect people for their vulnerability and humanness. I am passionate that the core conditions I provide in the supportive, safe relationship will provide the confidence to trust in yourself and find direction in your life and reach your full potential.
Get in touch if you feel that connection!
Training, qualifications & experience
I began studying and practicing on placement over a decade ago now as a counsellor and have been in private practice for the past few years. I have grown and changed a lot, as I believe that we can only take clients as far as we are willing to go.
I am qualified with BSc Hons in Counselling & Psychotherapy: Professional Practice
I also have continued professional development in short courses/ workshops and classes in the following:
Imago Parenting
Nurturing Mums: Supporting and Understanding Post Natal Care
Unmasking ADHD
ADHD Emotional Mastery and Resilience in Relationships
Understanding Autism
Bereavement Counselling
Existential Therapy
Anxiety disorder
Trauma: Uncovering The Story Through Breathwork
Shadow Work
Somatic Trauma Treatment: Peter Levine
Walk and Talk Therapy
Carolyn Spring:
Child sexual abuse: Hope for Healing
Working with shame
Trauma and the body: Dissociation and Somatisation
Member organisations
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.
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Fees
£65.00 - £75.00
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I offer a free initial consultation.
I do also work with some EAP'S, so if you would like to discuss funding the sessions through your insurance let me know.
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