About me
About me:
With 18 years' experience working in mental health, including 15 years within the NHS, Occupational Health, Secondary Schools, and private practice, I provide a supportive and professional space where clients can explore difficulties, develop greater self-understanding, and create meaningful and lasting change.
Life can sometimes feel overwhelming. You may be struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, stress, low-self esteem, or feeling stuck in patterns that no longer serve you. Therapy offers an opportunity to understand these difficulties, develop effective coping strategies, and move forward with greater confidence and clarity.
I have extensive experience supporting adults, young people, parents and professionals experiencing a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties. Alongside my private practice, I have worked closely with schools, Occupational Health services, multidisciplinary teams, staff wellbeing services, and educational settings, supporting individuals through both personal and professional challenges.
Areas of Interest:
I have a particular interest in working with:
- Trauma and adverse life experiences
- Anxiety, panic, and Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- Depression and low mood#
- Emotional abuse, controlling relationships, and co-dependency
- Low-self esteem, confidence, and assertiveness
- Relationship difficulties and health boundary setting
- Grief and loss
- Workplace stress and burnout
- Autism and neurodiversity
- Long-term health conditions and their impact on emotional wellbeing
- Parenting challenges and family relationships
My Approach:
I work integratively, drawing upon a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches to meet your individual needs. These include:
- Person-centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Solutions focused Therapy
- EMDR ( Eye Movement Desensitisation And Reprocessing)
- Mindfullness and Relaxation-based approaches
By combining different therapeutic approaches, I can tailor therapy to circumstances and goals, helping you move towards meaningful and lasting change.
EMDR Therapy
I offer Eye Movement Desensitisation And Reprocessing (EMDR), a structured and evidence-based therapy that helps people process and recover from trauma, anxiety, grief, distressing life experiences, and other emotional difficulties.
EMDR works by helping the brain reprocess difficult memories so they become less emotionally overwhelming and disruptive. Many people find EMDR particularly beneficial when talking therapy alone has not fully resolved the impact of past experiences.
Who I work with:
- Adults
- Young people and teenagers
- Parents and families
- Professionals experiencing workplace stress or burnout
- Individuals recovering from difficult or controlling relationships
- Clients seeking trauma-informed therapy and EMDR
Whether you are experiencing a specific difficulty or simply feel that life has become harder to manage, therapy can provide a supportive space to understand what is happening and identify a way forward.
If you would like to discuss whether therapy is right for you, please feel free to get in touch. I aim to respond to enquiries within 48 hours. If contacting my email, please include a telephone number and check your junk folder for my reply.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained at De Montforte University, my qualifications are:
- EMDR parts 1,2 and 3.
- Bacp Accreditated psychotherapist
- Bacp Clinical supervisor- working with the 7 eyed model of Supervision
- PGCE degree in Low-Intensity Psychological Interventions (CBT).
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling.
- Level 3 BTEC Diploma in Counselling Skills (QFC)
- Brief Solutions Focus Practice (Foundation)
- Brief Solutions Focus Practice in Consultation & Supervision.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) training.
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
£75.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
An individual therapy session lasting 50 minutes (inc. the initial assessment)
Face to Face and online available.
For a session in person, I request you pay after the session by Bank transfer, Paypal or cash and the end of the meeting.
Telephone or skype/Zoom counselling is also avaiable for fees per advance by Paypal or bank transfer.
When I work
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Further information
I am a registered member of the BACP (The British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy), a regulatory and professional body and adhere to their cold of ethical practice.
I hold an enhanced DBS and am registered with the Government DBS update service.
BACP Registered Member - 861759.
Location of face to face therapy:
Moulton
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