About me
Are you struggling with day-to-day activities or in your relationships? Have you found yourself falling into patterns of behaviour that can be unhelpful? If so, counselling could help you. Whether you are struggling with feelings of anxiety and depression or have suffered a loss of some kind or one of the many other things that bring people to counselling, I will support you in working through the issues.
I am also a qualified adoption support counsellor, having completed further training and so am able to support adults wanting to explore the impact of adoption and fostering whether as an adoptee, an adopter, a birth family member or experience of fostering or SGO and kinship care.
I have diverse experience of working with young people. This ranges from supporting young people with conditions such as Autism and ADHD in an academic setting; providing emotional support in a mentor role within a school; and counselling, providing therapeutic support. I understand the demands that young people can face in today's society from many different areas of life.
I understand that coming to counselling can be daunting. I offer a warm place where you can work through difficult feelings and start to make sense of things in a non-judgmental environment. I will support you through our work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I offer help with issues such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, sexual identity, self-harm, suicidal ideation, life choices, emotional abuse, dissociation, family issues, bereavement and more.
I am trained to work with adults facing issues with adoption. You might have been adopted, or have gone through the process to adopt a child or be a birth parent. These events may have happened recently or in the distant past and you find that you are now struggling with them.
I am a Registered Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and follow their ethical framework.
- Certificate in Adoption Support Counselling - Barnardo's/The Albany Centre
- Professional Diploma in Counselling - The Albany Centre
- Certificate in Counselling - Birkbeck University
- BA in English and Cultural Studies - De Montfort Universty
- Regular CPD training
- Certificate in First Aid
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Concessions available
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My availability does change from time to time, so please check with me if I am able to offer a different time slot to those shown above
