About me
I am originally trained as an integrative counsellor, which means I can tailor each session to your unique needs. Since then, I have undertaken advanced training in the field of trauma, learning from some of the world’s leading experts. My approach is to walk alongside you, sharing in your challenges while providing a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where you can truly feel heard and understood.
Together, we will work to build a strong therapeutic relationship, allowing us to gently explore the difficulties you are experiencing. By understanding the roots of these challenges, self-awareness and self-acceptance can naturally begin to grow. When helpful, I may offer psycho-education about the nervous system to support your understanding of what may be driving difficult emotions, especially anxiety.
I understand that talking alone is often not enough for trauma. If trauma emerges in our sessions, I will also guide you in noticing how emotions show up in the body, gently helping release their hold. I am trained in REWIND therapy as well, providing another approach to working through traumatic experiences.
The aim of therapy is to help you make more empowered decisions, build trust in yourself and others, enhance self-worth, process painful experiences, and, when needed, navigate grief. Through this work, it is my hope that you reconnect with yourself and your intuition, meeting your true self, perhaps for the first time, without fear of speaking your truth or hiding behind a mask
Training, qualifications & experience
Trained as an integrative counsellor (BA Hons)
I have worked with adults and young people from age 12 onwards with over 2000 practice hours.
I am currently increasing my trauma training to become a compassionate inquiry practitioner, enabling me to bring in some important skills for working in this area.
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
£55.00 per session
