About me
I don’t have a specific type of client I seek to work with. I value supporting people from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and life experiences, each facing their own unique challenges. Every person’s story matters, and everyone deserves the opportunity to feel lighter and freer from the burdens they carry. It would be a privilege to walk alongside you as you move toward a calmer, more peaceful mind.
I often think of counselling as walking through the woods together. You choose the path, and I stay beside you, whatever direction you take. At times, I may gently invite you to pause and look around—perhaps noticing things you hadn’t seen before, reflecting on what you have already discovered, or encouraging you forward when you feel ready. I can help you become more aware of what may be holding you back. If something feels overwhelming, I can offer a steady hand to help you up; and if you’re not ready yet, I will sit with you in that difficult place until we are ready to move forward together.
If you’re struggling, I believe I can support you. I have a strong belief in the healing potential of counselling, and I bring empathy, understanding, and steady support to my work. I have extensive experience working with young people aged 10–18, as well as supporting many clients who are crippled with anxiety and panic attacks. I have experienced the joy of seeing many clients progress toward a much greater calm and confidence. I believe in my clients—their capacity for growth, resilience, and the possibility of living a full, peaceful, and meaningful life. My role is to help guide you toward that.
Over the past year, I have focused on working full-time in an emotional support role within a school, while maintaining my private practice through word of mouth. As I have recently begun advertising again, availability is quickly becoming increasingly limited, though there are currently still some spaces open.
Please feel free to get in touch by message or email, and I will respond as soon as I can. If you call, I may be in session and unable to answer, so an email is often the best way to reach me.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a diploma in integrative counselling. This means I use a range of approaches when counselling. These include:
- Person-centred- a very gentle, natural counselling style, focusing purely on what you want to talk about.
- Psychodynamic, looking back in your life to understand events and situations that have shaped how you negotiate the world around you today.
- C.B.T- cognitive behavioural therapy addresses your thinking and behaviour. In order to change how you feel emotionally and how you feel physically, we can change thinking and behaviour.
Out of the three styles mentioned above, Person-centred is very much my favourite. It's very non-invasive and I believe it quickly allows the client to relax and gives them the confidence to start finding their way. I will however, switch seamlessly between these depending on the person and the situation.
I also have a degree in Education and worked in schools for a substantial period of time before I became a counsellor. Experience in teaching may not be apparently useful for counselling, but it certainly allows me to identify with anyone who is facing challenges in a highly pressured, stressful work environment.
My counselling space is comfortable, safe and bright. It's also very private: there is no risk of you bumping into anyone you know at my workplace, your safe place.
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
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Additional information
Prices for family counselling and marriage counselling will be available on request.
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Further information
If you get in touch with me, I will initiate an initial telephone conversation to arrange our first in-person session and discuss your availability and mine for that. You will be very welcome to ask anything you'd like to know about on the initial phone call, too.
In our first in person session we'll go over our contract and I'll find out more about you- just to get a general background picture of your life. We'll then talk a little more about what's happening in your life now and we'll set some goals together and we'll get to unpack some of your story. For most clients, I would expect perhaps 6 sessions should see a marked improvement in many aspects of your life. Clients normally report a marked difference within 3-4 sessions with me.
If you don't choose to work with me, do work with a counsellor who seems to "get" you. If the dynamics don't feel right in your relationship, then it's probably not the right relationship to really help you. Look for someone who encourages you to talk about difficult feelings: it's in this that you will find healing. You are of great worth and you deserve to work with a counsellor who not only treats you as having great worth but who seeks to instil that sense of great self-worth within you.
I'll finish by sharing with you a few of the reviews written by some of my clients who I have helped:
"Jonny is extremely professional whilst being empathetic and supportive. I met with Jonny on a fortnightly basis for help with anxiety and depression. He validated all my feelings and emotions and taught me many different strategies to deal with these. Through working with Jonny my life has become so much better. I am now able to find joy and happiness every day and know that when life gets tough from time to time I will be able to cope."
"I had suffered from depression, childhood trauma, anxiety and very low self-esteem for many years. I had tried counselling before and thought it wasn't for me but finding the right counsellor made all the difference. When I first met Jonny, I told him I was unfixable but how wrong I was!! Jonny is so easy to talk to, empathetic, non judgemental and so understanding. He provided me with invaluable support and tools to help me untangle my uncertainties, injustices and anxiety. I couldn't recommend Jonny enough for those searching for expert guidance and support."
"I started going to Jonny at a very difficult point in my life... my life felt like it had fallen apart. I didn't realise how broken I was until I started looking deeper at my issues. Jonny gave me the strength to get through it, supporting me every week with ways to cope and to be honest was not only my counsellor but a friend. I felt so comfortable with him which made me feel able to open up... I could not have got through things without him and am eternally grateful."
"Jonny helped to identify my issues with self-image and always challenged self-destructive behaviour. I was able to talk bluntly and honestly without judgement. I was able to share things I thought I'd never be able to voice, which led to Jonny helping me create steps I needed to take in order to have difficult conversations in my own time. This really helped my relationship with my family and friends...
Before counselling, I hated spending time alone, but now I actively seek out alone time as I am no longer afraid of my own mind. He allowed me to grieve things I didn't know I was allowed to grieve and for this, I am incredibly grateful that I was able to access such high-quality counselling.
After 8 months I was able to say that I no longer needed counselling, a day I thought would never come. I am very thankful for my time with Jonny and will highly recommend him to anyone who feels they will never be able to escape their spiralling mind."
Please text, email, WhatsApp or call with any questions and I'll be sure to get back to you as soon as I'm available.
