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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I completed my Arts Counselling training in 2015, and have been working in schools in the Canterbury area and in Australia with children and teenagers since then. I offer a combination of Therapeutic Art, Counselling, Sensorimotor Therapy, and Play Therapy. I provide a caring, empathic, safe space for you to explore any challenging life events or issues in a person-centred and supportive way. I strongly believe in the power of therapeutic art to heal trauma, and to foster healthy psychological, emotional, educational, social and physical development.
I am a member of BACP, and hold an advanced DBS. I am on the Kent County Council qualified providers list.
I also offer Sensorimotor and Clayfield Therapy which is of benefit to clients with ASD and ADHD as it supports emotional and behavioural regulation and sensory integration. It is also helpful helpful for early and developmental trauma.
Training, qualifications & experience
After doing an MA in Fine Art and having three children, I decided to do an MA in Therapeutic Arts Counselling. Since graduating I have combined my interest in working with young people and art therapy by working in a variety of school settings with children and young people of all ages, both here in the UK and in Australia. Much of my work has been with children in care as a VSK Therapist.
I have developed my work through further trainings in Teenage Counselling and Parent and Child Therapy (IATE), in Initiatic Art Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Non-Violent Communication, Mindfulness in schools, Heartmath Techniques, the Safe and Sound Protocol, Emotion Focused Therapy, and in Sensorimotor Art Therapy using Guided Drawing and Clayfield Therapy.
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
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer two concessionary rate sessions per week for people with limited resources.
Further information
Art Therapy allows children and teenagers who may struggle to verbalise their challenges or trauma to do so in a safe and contained way. It allows things to be worked on indirectly, whilst naturally allowing them to heal and connect to themselves, others and the world in new and more empowered ways.
