About me
Experienced Counsellor, Solution-Focussed Clinical Hypnotherapist, Meditation Teacher and Supervisor, working in Ashburton or online via zoom.
I am a very experienced counsellor of 15 years, practicing privately and in different clinical settings over these years, and offer effective, caring, and sensitive therapeutic support in Ashburton and online via zoom. I will provide a safe and confidential space in which you may talk through whatever you may be experiencing in your life at this time.
Please call, email or message me for a free initial consultation and assessment.
Throughout the process I will take care in helping you gain perspective on where you find yourself at this time in your life journey, and how you would like your life to be, but more importantly, how you will get there. At the heart of this work is healing and alleviating the experience of the terrible triplet, stress, anxiety, and depression (unhappiness)!!
I bring great experience having worked in a wide range of Health and Social Care settings for 40 years and look forward to helping you on your journey.
Training, qualifications & experience
Advanced Diploma Integrative Counselling (BACP Accredited) - Iron Mill Exeter.
Certificate in Counselling (BACP Accredited) - Iron Mill Exeter.
Certificate in Supervision CTSD Bath (UKCP Recognised).
IHT Solution Focussed Clinical Hypnotherapy.
BSc (Hons) Psychology - Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychophysiology and Psychopharmacology.
NVQ5 Operational Management (Res. Care Learning Disabilities & Associated Mental Health problems).
NVQ4 Registered Manager Award & NVQ4 Social Care.
OCR Trainer and NVQ Assessor in Social Care and Management.
Mindfulness Teacher Training - level 1 - Exeter University
2 year Dharma Practitioners Programme
Many other trainings over the years!
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
Fees
£36.00 - £65.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Free Initial Consultation and Assessment (up to 90 mins) for Counselling & SF. Hypnotherapy.
Counselling: £55/session
Solution-Focussed Clinical Hypnotherapy - £65/session (usually 4-12 sessions)
Supervision: £60 hr
When I work
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Further information
I am actively and enthusiastically engaged in my own ongoing personal development. I became interested in personal development and the 'big question about the meaning of life' just before leaving school in the mid eighties.
I have worked professionally in Social Care for 40 years with children, adults and older people in the private, voluntary and public Sectors including work in the fields of Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Special Education , Oncology, Dementia Care and criminal justice.
At the heart of my special interests is Health and Illness and the MIND/BODY connection and how the workings of both, in all their incredible complexity, influence each other in the creation of physical and mental health or illness. This sits alongside my own interests in Meditation, Bodywork & Spirituality that I have pursued since I was a teenager! I continue to practice breathwork/rebirthing, EFT (emotional freedom technique), hypnotherapy and meditation that I also bring to my work as a counselling and hypno - therapist.
For 15 years I served as the Pastoral Care and Buddhist Chaplain in Dartmoor Prison from 2009 until its closure, teaching Buddhism and Mindfulness Meditation, Counselling, as well as setting up and supervising a counselling service through the Chaplaincy department.
