About me
Many of us reach a point where old patterns start to feel too costly to keep carrying in relationships, at work, in how we treat ourselves. Counselling won't hand you a fix, but it offers something more durable: a consistent, confidential space to understand why those patterns formed, and room to build something different.
I work psychodynamically, which means we pay attention to how early experience shapes present-day feelings and relationships including the one between us. That relationship often becomes the most useful material in the room: a live example of the patterns you're describing, happening in real time, where we can actually look at it together.
I also bring an understanding of the body into this work. Over a decade spent teaching movement and working with how people hold tension, before I trained as a counsellor, means I don't just listen to what you say I notice what's underneath it: the things anxiety, grief or old defences do in the body, often before they're conscious as thoughts at all. This isn't a separate technique bolted onto the therapy. It's part of how I listen.
Sessions run at a consistent time, day and length each week, whether we're meeting in person in Hertford or Stevenage, or online. That consistency is deliberate it's part of what makes the space safe enough to do real work in.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained at The Counselling Foundation, completing the Diploma in Contemporary Psychodynamic Counselling. I've worked over 170 clinical hours against a 100-hour qualifying requirement, and I'm a registered member of the BACP (membership 420929), working within their Ethical Framework for good practice.
I hold regular clinical supervision alongside a peer supervision group, and I'm committed to at least 30 hours of CPD a year. Before training as a counsellor, I spent over a decade working with the body and movement as a yoga teacher, alongside years in education experience that continues to inform how I understand the connection between mind and body in the therapy room.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Life transitions and identity including career change, motherhood, and adjusting to new roles or stages of life. I also draw on a background in movement and yoga teaching, which shapes how I attend to the body in sessions alongside talking.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
£60 for a 50-minute session. I hold a small number of reduced-fee spaces for clients experiencing financial hardship please ask if this applies to you.
I offer a free 15-20 minute introductory call before we begin, so we can both get a sense of whether we're a good fit to work together.
Further information
I offer sessions in person in Hertford and Stevenage, and online via Zoom. Counselling with me is open-ended rather than time-limited, so there's no fixed number of sessions we'll agree together what feels right as the work develops. I currently have availability for new clients.
