About me
Providing a safe place to think and talk in confidence, is the foundation of my practice. My commitment as an experienced psychotherapist is to working collaboratively. Enable and support you in the process of exploring your feelings, make sense of your thoughts and experiences and work through difficulties, understand relationships past and present and help to facilitate changes in a respectful and thoughtful way.
I have extensive experience of over 25 years working with a diverse range of clients and presenting issues. My professional background includes private practice, the voluntary sector, and therapeutic roles within a range of organisations in the UK and abroad. I have worked with people from different cultures, faiths, sexual orientations, and professional and educational backgrounds, and with individuals navigating significant life transitions such as career change, relocation, and the challenges of integration, adaptation, and relationships.
I work mainly long term, open ended psychotherapy whcih provides a continuously evolving space to explore deep-burried issues, relational patterns, and unconscious dynamics and also short term (minimum 12 sessions). Depends on the issue people bring and wish to work on.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). A member of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC) and the British Psychoanalytical Council (BPC),
I am bound by their codes of ethics.
Training, qualifications & experience
During my over 25 years of working as a psychotherapist and counsellor, I specialise in working with depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, work-related stress and burnout, separation, bereavement, loss, and trauma, with particular experience in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
I qualified as a psychodynamic psychotherapist at WPF Therapy and hold MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Theory and Practice from Roehampton University.
I am a qualified EMDR – Eye, Movement, Desensitization and Reprocessing – therapist, I offer trauma and phobias focused therapy.
I acquired Diploma in psychodynamic supervision from the Society for Analytical Psychology (SAP) supeprvising trainees and qulaified therapists.
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 British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I offer concessionary fee for people in low income or unemployed.
