About me
I am a fully qualified, registered and accredited psychotherapist with over 10 years' clinical experiences.
Individual Psychotherapy:
The body expresses what the mind suppresses.
I continue to be deeply interested in understanding the unique struggle each of us undergo throughout our lives, sometimes more than once. In psychotherapy, we are co-creating a relationship, together we craft an emotionally safe environment within which a process of unfolding, unlearning and enabling new self-learning, then an exploration can take place between us. Through greater understanding of our innermost self, our trauma, then together we can begin to allow the possibility for change to emerge within therapy. I am trained and experienced in Body Psychotherapy, this is a crucial part of my therapy work with clients, where our bodies hold many of our untold and unconscious stories awaiting to be heard, processed and gradually integrated.
My approach to working with people is through offering high-quality relational, emotional, creative and experiential psychotherapy processing, using Body Psychotherapy to enable somatic experiencing. Whilst being aware of the global unrest, I aim to simultaneously deconstruct colonialist, oppressive and systemic narratives, enabling meaningful and transformative new representations to emerge and co-exist between us as a culturally competent, attuned and curious Psychotherapist, aware of my own cultural humility in my ongoing learning process about our diverse differences.
My previous personal and professional experiences, combined with my lifelong love for learning and commitment to healing, growth, development, unlearning and understanding have led me to being a professional and highly experienced educator for over 23 years and more recently as an educator and tutor at Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (BCPC).
Working closely and deeply with a trained, registered and accredited psychotherapist has demonstrated a neurological rewiring of our central nervous system, most often this happen in the minutia of verbal and non-verbal processing we co-create. As a psychotherapist I explore multi-faceted intricacies and complexities which have made life a struggle; navigating and attending to the emotionally and somatically deeper complexities, multiple difficulties and presentations and when a person needs to make sense of their lived-experiences, relationship orientations and their sense of Self.
Whilst I hold and deeply respect many well-established theories and therapeutic approaches as my integrative underpinning, with a deep respect for the philosophical research which has also impacted and influenced my inner change, I consider myself to be a Post-modern Psychotherapist with a creative and holistic approach, enabling me to see you as a whole person, where my multi-faceted and relational stance is unique to each individual client as we navigate the unfolding process and the intricate complexities which can affect our sense of being.
I am particularly interested in complex trauma, existential Self, motherhood and our differences on an intersectional level and inter-human relating and understanding.
I am a fully trained, qualified and accredited psychotherapist with Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (BCPC), a training organisation of some 30 years standing in the city which offers professional therapy practitioner training under the auspices of Middlesex University in London. I have been awarded a Masters Degree in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy from Middlesex University.
SUPERVISION:
I have completed my CSTD Bath Supervision Diploma modules and research, I am now in the very final stage of training as I accrue my clinical hours. I have 2 spaces available for relational and reflective supervision for Counsellors and Psychotherapists.
I am UKCP registered and accredited. I abide by UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy) regulations, this is the main professional body overseeing the accreditation and registration of psychotherapists in the UK.
Couples Therapy:
I am also a fully qualified Relational Couples Psychotherapist, by 'Couples' this can also mean: mother-son/daughter couple, sister-sister, grandfather-grandson and even friends. I work with couples who are experiencing difficult themes from fertility complexities, betrayal and everything in between, and sometimes it is something else that threatens to destroy their relationship. Often, working through these difficulties that have been created together can bring a deepening union and a new level of intimacy not previously experienced. Couples therapy can give you the space and safety to explore each others feelings so that you can honour your relationship, whether or not you decide to stay together or not. If you would like to give it a try, it's a good idea to come for an initial session with a view to deciding whether this is something, as a couple, you would like to pursue.
In both areas, I work with adults with a broad range of emotional complexities, some of which include:
- Refugee
- PoGM
- Palestine
- Climate Crisis
- Displacement
- Death / Grief (recent or decades ago)
- Uprootedness
- Trauma (emotional & relational)
- Violence against women
- Gendered violence
- PTSD and CPTSD
- Middle-Eastern women
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Fertility complexities
- Childlessness
- Perimenopause
- Menopausal topics
- SMBC
- Self-harm
- LBGTQ+
- Panic attacks
- Maternal shame
- Maternal rage
- Maternal ambiguity
- Relational /marital difficulties
- Paternal rage
- Paternal shame
- Paternal ambiguity
- Bereavement (suicide, sudden and terminal)
- Life as an orphan
- Early childhood experiences
- Childhood sexual abuse
- Childhood physical abuse
- Attachment styles and their impact
- Self exploration and expression
- Work-related stress
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a fully qualified psychotherapist working with individuals for 10 years.
I am also a fully qualified Relational Couples Therapist.
I am fully registered and accredited with UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy).
I have an MA and Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy from Middlesex University and BCPC (Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling).
I have a Certificate in Relational Couples Therapy from Relational-Psychotherapy through Transactional Analysis with Metanoia Institute.
I have recent clinical experiences working with Children and Young People Counselling as a School Consultant Counsellor, within mainstream and private school settings.
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.
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
£60.00 - £75.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60-£75 for weekly adult Psychotherapy sessions.
£90 for weekly for Relational Couples Therapy or
£135 for fortnightly sessions (depending on the relational needs and my availability).
£65 for Children and Young Person therapy.
I also hold these supportive spaces:
- Mother and Baby Circles (private group and block sessions)
- Grieve Circles (1-1 space or private group sessions)
- Mothering without Mothers (1-1 space or private group sessions)
Please ask if you are interested and would like to have one of the services listed above.
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