About me
My specialist knowledge is in bereavement, grief and trauma. We tend to think of grief as a response to someone close to us dying, but in fact, we feel grief for all kinds of loss. All the people I work with are holding grief for something they have lost, or for something they long for and never received. It is how I tend to think of the very common mental health struggles like anxiety and depression - these are symptoms of something more deeply held.
Therapy with me flows through this process:
1. Awareness – we will talk about your experiences and pay attention to the thoughts, feelings and beliefs you hold, about yourself and others. We will discover what may be creating a sense of ‘stuckness’ or distress and we will look for recurring themes and patterns.
2. Acceptance – of who you are, warts and all! This is about true self-compassion, something that is alien to many of us and harder than it may seem. This is where grief may sit, and my role is to support you through it.
3. Accountability – Once Awareness has been raised and Acceptance for yourself develops, you begin to make meaning from your experiences. This allows for change and growth to happen; it is when real choice, freedom, creativity and spontaneity become available to you. You decide which parts of your story still serve you, and which do not.
Our work together will always be collaborative. I strongly believe in the healing power of the therapeutic relationship, and it is for this reason that I turn up as a human first, therapist second. I will prioritise what is happening between us as a way of understanding what also happens ‘out there’ in the world for you. This takes courage, honesty, humility and integrity; this is my pledge to you.
More and more, my work has brought me in contact with the big transitions in life – and death. With women who are encountering pregnancy complications like infertility, miscarriage or termination for medical reasons; and with cancer patients at The Royal Marsden Hospital facing chronic ill-health, uncertainty and mortality. I find this work challenging, deeply rewarding and life-affirming.
I feel honoured and grateful to support people while they face some of their deepest, darkest fears. My strength as a therapist is in my ability to quietly bear witness to your despair and fear, to tolerate it with you, so you know you are not alone. I am forever amazed, humbled and inspired by the resilience, change and rediscovery of self people come to after such harrowing experiences.
If you have read this, and some part inside you feels compelled to respond – let’s talk.
Training, qualifications & experience
With my clients I use an integrative approach, incorporating Person-Centred, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis. Having an integrative approach means I have a range of psychotherapeutic ‘tools’ that I can call on.
I qualified as a psychotherapeutic counsellor from the well-respected Metanoia Institute in Ealing, West London and I am a registered member of the BACP.
I am in advanced clinical training, working on a MSc in Humanistic psychotherapy, again from The Metanoia Institute.
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
£80.00 - £90.00
Additional information
I offer a free 15-minute telephone call for us to explore what brings you to counselling at this time and how I can help you.
After this, we can then book an initial consultation. This will last 50-minutes and costs £90. This will be an opportunity for me to learn more about you and for you to get a sense of what it would be like to have counselling with me.
If we both agree, we can then begin to work together. Depending on how you decided to work with me, my fees range from £80 - £90 per session.
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