About me
Hello and Welcome!
Whatever stage of your life you're currently negotiating, I offer an authentic space where we can talk and explore what it is to be you. Our work will be safe, confidential and accepting of whatever is troubling you.
The experience of being a client with me will be relational, curious and collaborative – you won’t get any blank stares here.
Although I have worked with a wide variety of clients over the last 10 years, I specialise in treating trauma of all kinds, particularly relational trauma caused by a difficult upbringing, a complex family system or narcissistic parenting. Being late-diagnosed ADHD myself, I also enjoy working with clients who are ADHD, Autistic or AuDHD, whether diagnosed or self-diagnosed, who may be working to fully accept who they are.
As a trainee of EMDR, I am currently bringing this modality into the work where appropriate (please see website for further details of how I work).
I work as a Senior Therapist at The Priory Hospital and with Rockabye CIC, a Bristol-based organisation offering perinatal groups. As such, I have experiences with more complex mental health and working with attachment across the lifecycle.
As well as being a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor of adults, I am a qualified practitioner of therapeutic play. When working face-to-face, I offer sandtray therapy and other creative options to work at an unconscious level.
I consider myself an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community and have experience of gender fluidity from within my family. I have knowledge of alternative relationship styles (ENM etc) and I'm actively working on myself to identify, reflect and unpick internalised racism and ableism.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Diploma in Integrative Counselling (PGDip) from UWE Bristol and a Certificate in Counselling from Birkbeck University. I hold accreditation from the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) and can be found on their professional register. As well as my work with adults, I hold a Certificate in Therapeutic Play with children and have worked in primary school settings. I am currently training in EMDR.
I divide my working week between The Priory Hospital, where I am a Senior Therapist working with In-Patients and Out-Patients, running group work and 121s. And Rockabye - a perinatal mental health CIC - as a therapeutic practitioner running perinatal groups for parents and babies. We run group activities grounded in polyvagal/trauma theory and offer a heartfelt space to facilitate bonding between parents and their bumps and babies.
I have worked in a variety of organisations in Bristol and South Glos, including Bristol Mind, Teens in Crisis, the Cotham Post-16 centre and The Priory Clinic in Aztec West. While at Bristol Mind, I co-ordinated the MindLine and MindLine Trans+ helplines, which included the recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers.
I have additional training in working with Neurodiversity, Infertility counselling (BICA certified), Internal Family Systems, Narcissistic Abuse (relational and familial) and working with the adult children of addicts. I am gender-aware, an ally for the LGBTQIA+ community and have knowledge of ethical non-monogamy and polyamorous relational structures.
I have lived experience of neurodiversity and gender diversity.
In my pre-counselling life, I completed a degree in English Literature and Film Studies (BA Hons) and worked in the charity sector, helping to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities nationwide. I have held contracts in financial services roles and also worked with young homeless people in North London and as a support worker to young mums.
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
£70.00 per session
Additional information
Initial session - £35
Standard Session Fee - £70
'Pay-it-Forward' Fee - £120 (This enables me to offer low-cost therapy to those who need it, and offer one of my working days earning a lower wage with Rockabye CIC)
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