This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am an experienced family and systemic psychotherapist, offering online therapy to individuals, couples and families and I am currently based in Stratford, London and Northamptonshire.
While there are many different reasons for seeking therapy, I believe many of us are likely to experience difficulties at some time in our lives, or have times when we want to make changes in our relationship to ourselves and others. Therapy can offer an opportunity to explore our thoughts and emotions safely, look at how we might resolve our difficulties, build on our strengths and enable us to go forward more helpfully and creatively in our lives and relationships. I am interested in offering you time and space to explore what you might find helpful in sorting out difficulties and empower you to make the changes you want to your life as an individual, couple or family.
I am happy to be contacted by phone or email. If I am not available at the time you call, please leave a message and I will get back to you to have a brief initial discussion about what you might want from therapy. As a policy, I like to offer an appointment as quickly as possible to avoid a wait, to hear more about the problem you want help with; changes you want to make, and agree what might be a good way forward, possibly with suggestions and recommendations, should you want this. If only a few appointments are needed, I can arrange these with you on a flexible basis and can also offer regular appointments at weekly, fortnightly or monthly intervals, depending on what we decide together might be helpful. I am able to offer weekend, evening and day time appointments.
My sessions are now arranged to take place online as I have found this to be a very positive way to work with people and families offering opportunities for people to access flexible sessions, arranged to fit around the demands of work and home, and enabling time and space for people to focus on what they want to address in their lives. I am happy to offer online sessions and telephone sessions and to discuss this way of working with you and what you can expect of me when you contact me as part of our initial discussion.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a fully qualified, UKCP registered systemic and family psychotherapist and accredited systemic supervisor able to work with individuals, couples and children and families across the lifespan. I originally qualified as a social worker and then trained at the Tavistock Clinic and the Institute of Family Therapy.
My professional training and qualifications are:-
- Advanced Diploma in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy Institute of Family Therapy 2006
- MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy The Tavistock Clinic 1995
- MSc in Social Work CQSW 1979
- Current Couples Institute Training 2021-2022
I also have over 35 years of experience of working with adults, children and families in different organisations including Social Care, the charitable sector and the NHS, having been a Consultant Family and Systemic Psychotherapist in a Child and Adolescent Service for many years. I now work as an independent family and systemic psychotherapist seeing individuals, couples and families as well as teaching family and systemic psychotherapy, supervising colleagues and consulting to family and systemic practice in different organisational contexts.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Working with relationship difficulties across childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older life.
Working with Couples across the life cycle
Addressing loss and bereavement, illness, separation and divorce across the life cycle
Working with work related issues and stresses
Looking to develop and support resilience within and between people in family and organisational contexts
Therapies offered
Fees
£90.00 - £100.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fees are:
£90.00 for individual sessions of an hour and 15 minutes
£100.00 for family and couple sessions of an hour and 15 minutes
The timing and pacing of sessions can be discussed and agreed when we first meet and will be regularly reviewed as part of our work together. I am able to negotiate my fees on a case by case basis to include those who might want to access psychotherapy but find themselves in financial difficulties in this time of social and financial uncertainty. So please contact me to discuss your particular circumstances.
When I work
I am available on weekdays, in the evenings and at weekends. I am able to negotiate the times and pacing of sessions on a case by case basis and regularly review this
Further information
I an currently working online and on the phone
