About me
I offer weekly, fortnightly and single session therapy from Bethnal Green Therapy, 2 mins walk from Bethnal Green underground station.
What I can help with
I help people who are feeling lost and are looking to explore how they might move forward.
Increasingly, I am sought out by individuals who find that despite achieving the life they hoped are feeling lost and seeking direction.
I have particular experience and expertise in helping clients experiencing: life transitions (particularly bereavement, parenthood, aging parents, significant diagnosis), relationship difficulties, a loss of meaning or purpose, low self worth or feeling stuck.
How I work
I work with you the way I'd like a therapist to work with me: directly, collaboratively with emotional honesty and transparency
.My approach is open, warm, and intuitive. I'll ask questions that encourage you to think differently. I'll call out patterns when I see them. I'll also sit with you in the messy, uncertain parts without rushing to make it all make sense.
My training was humanistic, which means I'm less interested in diagnosing you and more interested in understanding how you make meaning, what drives you, where you feel stuck, and what a rich, purposeful life might look like for you specifically.
Therapy won't give you easy answers or quick fixes. What I can promise is a space where you don't have to pretend, where you can be honest about where you are at, and where we can work together to figure out what you actually want your life to look like.
Location
I see clients in my private therapy room in Bethnal Green, London E2. It is less than 2 minutes walk from the Central Line tube and within easy reach of Bethnal Green and Cambridge Heath Overground stations. The location is within easy reach of Hackney, Haggerstone, Shoreditch, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Mile End, Bow, Stratford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
Getting started
I want to make your enquiry process with me as straightforward as possible.
As a therapist I must be able to offer you the skills, experience and knowledge you need, practically we need to be in agreement around scheduling and fees and on a personal level I will need to be someone you feel comfortable with.
- Book a short call via my website (link at the top of the page). We'll chat about what's going on for you and whether we're a good fit. If we are, we will book a session. If not, I can share recommendations of trusted colleagues
- Initial session. This will be in person and will charged at my usual rate £80. It will be 50 minutes long. We will discuss your issue in more detail as well as exploring your hopes for therapy. At the end of this session, I'll offer a plan for our work and you can then decide if you want to continue.
- Ongoing sessions
If we progress we will most likely meet for weekly sessions of 50 minutes for a period of time. Sometimes I work fortnightly but my experience is that beginning weekly is usually most beneficial for most clients.
In terms of time, we can work in either a time-limited (usually 6-24 sessions) or open ended way, both of which can have benefits depending on your situation. I also can offer single sessions for clients who want them. We can discuss what feels right for you. Either way we will review regularly to ensure you are getting what you need from our work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have counselled young adults in further and higher education at a central London college as well as working at St Joseph's Hospice Hackney where I saw clients within the bereavement service for City and Hackney. In addition to my private practice, I have taught counselling at Capital City College Group in London.
I hold an FdA in Counselling from Middlesex University (BACP accredited course), and a previous degree from Central St Martins.
I came to train as a therapist following a successful twenty year career as a theatre director and CEO of an arts charity having come to realise that supporting and facilitating the growth of others was where I felt most at home, most effective and most fulfilled. I bring this wealth of life experience from my creative and professional work to my practice as a counsellor.
As a member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, registered member 400768) I am bound by a strict code of ethics to ensure my clients are kept safe.
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
- Shame
- Therapy for Artists and Creatives
- Questions of meaning and purpose
- Major life transitions
- Young adults issues
- New parents
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
A limited number of concessionary spaces are available so please get in touch and I will do my best to accommodate you.
When I work
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Further information
Appointments offered Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, mainly during the day.
