About me
As a fully qualified BACP accredited therapist, with over 15 years counselling experience, working with both adults and young people, I will provide you with the following:
A safe space where you can talk about personal, emotional or psychological issues, perhaps for the first time.
A non-judgemental, client-led place, in which you can start to make better sense of your thoughts, behaviours and emotions, and your relationships with others.
A collaborative non-biased, relationship where we can work through possible strategies and outcomes to problems, together.
Regular mental health and emotional well-being support where you can make sense of life's problems and feel happier and more fulfilled in yourself.
An opportunity to talk in confidence to someone from the comfort of your own private space, without the need to travel to my premises.
I offer mental-heath support for:
Anxiety; depression; bereavement; low self-esteem; lack of confidence, relationship issues, career or other life changes, anger management, addiction and trauma, as well as gender and sexuality issues.
I offer on-line counselling from home [FaceTime, Zoom, WhatsApp], both long- and short term, as well as one-off support sessions [Bookable between 12pm and 2pm weekdays], ‘Walk and Talk’ [Beverley Westwood] and home visits [Beverley area].
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Masters Degree in Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy, and a Foundation Certificate in Systemic Family Therapy (AFT accredited). Prior to a career shift, I worked for a chain of International English Language Schools, both in the UK and abroad, supporting adults and young people in the roles I performed there for over twenty years.
Since becoming a fully-qualified counsellor therapist in 2011, I have helped clients with a number of problems, such as anger management, relationship issues, addictions, stress, anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem and depression, as well as issues surrounding sexuality, gender identity, sexual health, and sexual and emotional abuse.
I also have experience working with mental health issues, and have counselled clients suffering from borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and Asperger's syndrome sufferers, as well as those struggling in relationships with loved ones or work colleagues who suffer from a lack of empathy for others, or have a bullying, narcissistic or sociopathic personality style.
For much of my adult life, I was the sole supporter of a relative - both practically and emotionally - who suffered from Bipolar disorder.
I also have extensive experience successfully helping adults in private practice and worked with young persons, aged 13 to 19 years, for ten years, in school settings for East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
I am a BACP Accredited Counsellor - Membership Number 721683
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.
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
£55.00 per session
Additional information
Fees
- £55 per hour remote one-to-one counselling (£200 for 4 fixed-date sessions paid upfront)
- £50 for a one-off pre-bookable drop-in session (between 12:00pm and 2:00pm weekdays only)
- £55 per walk-and-talk session; Beverley Westwood is only a few minutes’ away on foot
- £60 for face-to-face home visit support (Limited to Beverley and surrounding villages)
Cancellation charges
The full fee for counselling will be applicable for client cancellations when less than 24 hours' notice is given.
When I work
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Further information
- Additional Training & Courses Studied
- Certificate of Attendance in Understanding Shame in the Therapeutic Relationship 22/9/12
- Certificate in Transactional Analysis TA101 22/11/12
- Certificate of Attendance in Awareness of Child Abuse & Neglect 29/4/13
- Workshop in Counselling Supervision, Ellesmere Centre, Hull 15/5/14
- Certificate 2 in Mental Health Awareness, East Riding College (understanding Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Phobias, Post-natal Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Dementia, and eating disorders, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating).
- BACP Certificate of Proficiency leading to membership of the BACP Register 10/10/14
- Certificate of Attendance in Depression in Children and Young People (November, 2015)
- Certificate of Attendance in Adolescence Attachment and Self-harm (December, 2015)
- Certificate of Attendance in Safeguarding Children Refresher (June, 2016)
- Certificate of Attendance in Working in Partnership with Families & Carers (April, 2016)
- Certificate of Attendance in Understanding and Helping Young People with Anxiety (March, 2017)
- Certificate of Attendance in SEND - Special Educational Needs Learning (April, 2017)
- AFT Foundation Level Training in Family & Systemic Therapy (July, 2017)
- Certificate of Attendance in Raising Awareness of Prevent (July, 2017)
- Certificate of Attendance in Data Protection Awareness (August, 2017)
- Certificate of Attendance in Substance Abuse Awareness (September, 2017)
- Certificate of Attendance in Substance Misuse and Young People (July, 2018)
- Basic Autism Awareness ERYC on-line course (December, 2018)
- Certificate of Attendance in Basic Autism Awareness (January, 2019)
- Mental Capacity Act ERYC on-line course (December, 2018)
- NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Children and Young People's Mental Health (June, 2019)
- Enhanced DBS Certificate (March, 2019)
- Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health (June 2019)
- ERYC Prevent e-learning (September, 2019)
- Attended the Ellesmere Centre’s on-line course in Psychotherapeutic Tools in Mental Health (2021)
- Certificate of Attendance in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (February 2022)
- Certificate of Attendance in Solution-focussed Therapy (March 2022)
- APT training in Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (February, 2023)
- APT training in Solution-focussed Therapy (March, 2023)
- Signs of Safety training - Andrew Turnel’s model of child social care support (May to September, 2023)
- BACP training in ‘Depression & Young People’ (January, 2025)
- BACP training in Resilience - an attachment and trauma-informed perspective (February, 2025)
- BACP training in Anxiety and Attachment in Relationships (February, 2025)
- BACP training in Addiction: a search for a secure base (March, 2025)
