About me
We all face times in our life that knock us down for a while but I believe as people we aren’t powerless in the face of adversity, change or challenge. With over 15 years of experience as a therapist and over 20 years of working in the community, I bring a wealth of experience in supporting people from a wide range of backgrounds through difficult life experiences.
I believe that sometimes we need support along the way no matter what has happened. As a counsellor I have seen and experienced the benefits of counselling; how it can give us the capacity to manage circumstances in our lives so they don’t paralyse us.
I hold a Level 5 Diploma in Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence and Sexual Trauma. I offer a compassionate, trauma-informed approach, providing a safe and supportive space to explore difficult or painful experiences, understand how the past may be affecting the present, and work towards healing, greater self-awareness and meaningful change.
As a counsellor I provide a safe space for everyone no matter where you find yourself in life, yourself, relationships or stage. I hope I would offer place for you to do this without the fear of being judged and time to remember who you are and how to understand a little bit of what is going on within you. I will do this by exploring together techniques to help you understand your past, your present and look towards the future.
I provide a professional counselling service for individuals who are navigating change or challenge within their lives.
Through counselling I can help you find clarity around the events and influences that have shaped you, and empower you to bring about positive long term changes.
In short, I can help you understand your past so you can shape your future.
If you feel this is your next step and you would like to explore further what counselling means for you and have someone walk alongside you please do contact me via email, text or phone call.
For counsellors looking for a supervisor :- I can provide supervision for counsellors working as individuals or in an organisation. I have experience working with a wide range of issues that affect our clients especially those who have experienced trauma. I have always worked ethically and professionally. Please do get in touch if you would like to discuss further.
Training, qualifications & experience
My qualifications to date are :-
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
Level 5 Diploma in Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence and Trauma.
Level 6 Diploma in Supervision for individual counsellors working in both private practice and organisations.
I mostly work with clients who have experienced trauma in their lives and that could be because of a number of reasons. With all of my clients I work as as an Integrative Counsellor (which means using a range of different models in the counselling room including the Person-centred Approach.
I have a range of experience working with a number of clients in private practice and in organisations.
I offer one to one sessions with adults and I have been a registered member of the BACP since 2015. I am also accredited with the NCS (National Counselling Society)
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Childhood sexual abuse
Rape
Fees
£50.00 per session
Additional information
£40 per session.
Length of counselling process is decided during therapy but is typically between 6-15 sessions, yet longer pieces of work can be discussed.
I offer an initial conversation over the telephone to chat through what you would like from counselling (lasting 20mins)
Supervision for counsellors is £75per session (90mins)
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