About me
ONLINE EMDR THERAPIST & ONLINE COUNSELLING SUPERVISOR
I’m Heidi, a fully qualified and accredited therapist offering affordable online counselling and EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing).
As a therapist I'm approachable and down-to-earth, aiming to offer you a confidential, compassionate, open-minded and non-judgmental space for you to express and explore any current difficulties in your life. I am trauma-informed, and my counselling approach is integrative, mainly drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic concepts, though I also work creatively and intuitively within the moment.
My therapeutic approach utilises trauma-informed theories, e.g. Polyvagal theory and Somatic theory. It takes into account the complex relationship between mind and body, and how traumatic and negative experiences are stored in both our brain and body. Sessions with me will often include learning about trauma and your nervous system, and developing grounding/regulating tools.
Before I qualified as a therapist, I worked in the creative industries, TV, touring and live events. This has meant I’ve been fortunate to meet and work with people from a variety of cultural, religious and social backgrounds, and it has given me understanding and sensitivity to people’s diverse life experiences.
I've been working as a counsellor for more than 8 years, and as an EMDR therapist since 2023. I worked as a counsellor for Manchester Rape Crisis for 4 years, and currently work with a charity that provides EMDR for first responders. I have a varied client base, providing therapeutic counselling to people identifying within the Generation X, Millennial and Gen Z communities. I greatly value difference and am LGBTQ+ affirming.
I understand that life is complex and sometimes you might need some extra support, especially if you're feeling sad, fearful or overwhelmed just trying to get through another day. Perhaps you've been through a painful experience, or lost a sense of who you are, where you belong, or what you want in life.
Whether you decide to have counselling or EMDR therapy with me, we'll take a therapeutic journey that is unique to you. We’ll start from your ‘here and now’ feelings and experiences, and if it feels right for you, we can work together to explore connections to your past and to consider how those experiences might be impacting your present life. I am committed to supporting and encouraging you to gain new insight and understanding of yourself, with the intention of helping you recover from your adverse experiences, feel more empowered, make lasting changes and move forward more positively in your life.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been qualified as a therapist for over 8 years. I hold a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, a Foundation Degree in Counselling, and have qualified as an EMDR therapist.
I am also qualified as a Level 6 Therapeutic Counselling Supervisor.
Alongside my private practice, I have extensive experience supporting survivors of sexual violence and abuse after working with Manchester Rape Crisis for over 4 years. I have also worked for Employee Assistance Programmes, a low-cost counselling service, and for the charity Blue Light Minds, which provides therapy to frontline workers. My experience as a therapist spans both short-term and long-term work, delivered face-to-face and remotely.
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
£45.00 - £75.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Online counselling fees are £55 per 50-minute session
Online EMDR fees are £60 per 1-hour session
My online supervision fees are as follows:
- Trainee counsellors: £45 for 1 hr or £60 for 1.5 hrs
- Counsellors who qualified in the last 12 months: £50 for 1 hr or £70 for 1.5 hrs
- Qualified & experienced counsellors: £55 for 1 hr or £75 for 1.5 hrs
Further information
My approach as a supervisor is trauma-informed, which means, if appropriate, we may introduce psychoeducation about trauma and grounding techniques into supervision sessions.
I have lots of resources that I share with my supervisees to support their learning and to add to the therapeutic tools/techniques they can use within their client work.
