About me
Therapy is a space to be able to talk about anything, things that we perhaps can’t talk about to a friend, or maybe even to family. We can bring them to therapy and leave them there. It’s a place where we can process feelings, and a place to leave what is said in a safe confidential place. Therapy is somewhere you will find support and understanding and someone to help walk you through it all.
I would like to work with you, to support you as you deal with what’s hurting you and you heal from whatever psychological wounds life has inflicted on you. Sometimes we loose our way and we don’t even know who we are anymore, relationships and circumstances can all erode our sense of self and agency in the world. We can be our harshest critic and self compassion and self care maybe alien concepts to us, we may have lots of empathy for others but ourselves…..?
I work with attachment: attachment to partners, children and parents, it all shapes how we see ourselves. I work with anger and anxiety: possibly learned responses that have, so far, helped us navigate a difficult world….but might now not be useful to us. I work with grief… grief from bereavement but also from a relationship that’s ended, a grief from a challenging parent and the wounds that it’s brought, grief from a relationship that we deeply want to make happen…but can’t. We have all used things to comfort ourselves from the world around us, food, substances, sex….perhaps they’ve worked in the past but now these things aren’t soothing but are hurting us…
Relationship trauma or ‘wounding’ as a child, be it abuse or an emotionally absent (or physically absent) parent has a huge impact on how we as adults see the world around us…being aware of this can help us navigate relationships with our partners, bosses, children, friends.
Whatever brings you to therapy, please know I’m here to work with you. I work with individuals, couples and young people, LGBQT+ neurodivergent, polyamorous, GSERD. I work with people who have a mental health diagnosis' and those who do not.
I’m trained in Relationship Therapy, Psychodynamic, CBT, Person Centred, Transpersonal, Systems, Attachment and Gender Sexuality and Relationship Diversity. I would work openly with you in my thoughts about psychological theories, because I believe when you know the theory, life begins to make a bit more sense. Understanding the “why” of what we do…can often help us to develop self awareness and self compassion, and helps us make better choices.
I have a lot of experience, psychotherapy tools and ideas that I can share with you. What I bring may help give a different perspective.
Training, qualifications & experience
My qualifications…
Certificate in Diversity (including Neurodiversity and Gender, Sexuaity, Erotic and Relationship Diversity) National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists Accredited
Certificate in Telephone and Online Counselling Counselling - Association for Counselling and Therapy Online and National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society approved
Level Three Certificate in Couples Training - accredited by College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists
BACP Accreditation
- Level 4 Diploma in Counselling
- Level 3 Certificate in Counselling
- Level 3 Certificate in Couples Counselling
- Level 2 Certificate in Counselling
I have much experience and training in working with people who are neurodiverse.
I have been working as a self employed private practice therapist for a number of years.
I have done extensive work at The Elm Foundation, a charity for domestic abuse.
I have previously worked as a paid sessional counsellor for The Thomas Theyer Foundation and for Talk Listen Change in the the greater Manchester area.
I work with couples and individuals.
I work in a person centred way but with the skills and techniques of other approaches. Often our past influences our present and awareness of this can help us accept ourselves and find new ways to live life in the future.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
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Additional information
I offer an initial 60 minute counselling sessions for £35 and subsequent sessions are £50..
Concessionary rates are; an initial session is £35 and subsequent sessions are £50
Couples fee is £35 for an initial session and £60 for following sessions.
I am flexible with finance. If your financial situation is challenging, please chat with me about it.
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I am flexible to work out a time that suits you.
Further information
I work with couples and individuals. I offer an introductory session at £35 I integrate techniques from many counselling disciplines in my work.
We will work towards your goals for counselling so you can get what you need from your sessions…
If you need hep with anxiety, which can sometimes cripple us, we can work through simple techniques that can often reduce symptoms and look at why you're anxious and how you can work to prevent this.
Knowing our boundaries, what we allow into our lives, and not being afraid of saying ‘no’ can be liberating. Being aware of our past experiences and where our behaviour comes from can help us explore our ways of thinking about ourselves and others…
Understanding ourselves and accepting ourselves can be a powerful catalyst for change…can it build our knowledge, resilience, confidence and internal peace which helps us to manage our stress and anxiety and aids us in knowing what we need and how to get it. We can learn to thrive…
