About me
As an integrative psychotherapist I work with you to understand your current feelings within the context of your wider life experience. Our whole life and history walks into the therapy room with us, so whatever circumstances have led to you seeking help, you may find yourself exploring a wide variety of other experiences that have gone before to help you make sense of things. Therapy isn't always easy or enjoyable, but whatever the cause of your present distress, being in this unique relationship ultimately enables growth and change.
I have experience of working with a range of issues including domestic and childhood abuse, parenting challenges, bereavement, divorce/separation, social anxiety and depression. You may experience grief, depression, anxiety, or trauma in response to circumstances you have found yourself in, and these are emotional reactions - symptoms - rather than diagnoses or disorders. Whatever has led to you seeking help at the moment, therapy is about understanding your reactions to what has happened to you, and not about labelling you. I offer a supportive and non-judgemental space in which we can work together to understand these experiences and their individual meaning to you.
I have undertaken specialist training with the Foundation for Infant Loss Training, around pregnancy and infant loss. I also have a special interest in Autism, ADHD and neurodiversity more broadly. Psychotherapy and counselling are non-diagnostic services, but we can explore and understand your unique experience of the world. I aim to create an environment where it feels safe to express your true self.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc Psychotherapy & Counselling, University of Warwick
- Accredited Psychotherapist with UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy) - regulated by the Professional Standards Authority
- Registered Member of BACP (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy) - regulated by the Professional Standards Authority
- Full DBS
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Pregnancy and Infant Loss Practitioner Training, by the Foundation for Infant Loss
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association
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.
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
£40.00 - £60.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My current fee is £60 per session. I offer a percentage of my sessions as lower cost appointments to those for whom attending therapy would necessitate financial hardship, rather than financial sacrifice. We can talk about your individual circumstances at the initial consultation.
I offer a free initial consultation (either face to face or online) so that we can explore what it might be like for us to work together.
Further information
I offer a free initial session so that we can discuss whether my approach may work for you, and whether we both feel that we are a good fit to work together. Attending an introductory session doesn't commit you to further work, and if I don't think my approach is a good fit for you I will endeavour to signpost you to other potential suitable practitioners or services.
I offer therapy on either an open-ended basis, or in pre-agreed shorter episodes of focussed counselling between 6-12 sessions. Therapy is usually weekly and all our sessions would be at the same time and day of the week. In our first session we would agree goals and approach for the issues you bring and will review these regularly, adapting as needed.
My practice is in a private self-contained building, set away from the road. There is ample parking. Regrettably the building isn't currently wheelchair accessible.
