About me
Establishing trust and a sense of safety in the therapy relationship is the foundation for the way that I work. By providing a compassionate, calming, affirming presence, and an experience of being attentively and warmly heard, seen and valued, I endeavour to provide a space where you can bring what you need to. Together, we will work to help you explore and find a way through your current difficulties and challenges, finding the freedom to be you. Our conversations can bring you greater clarity and insight, or help you re-find your sense of meaning and purpose, and give you a sense of connecting more deeply with your whole self, reconnecting with your vitality, capacity for joy, and sense of ease in yourself and your relationships.
As an integrative counsellor, I am able to draw on a wide range of approaches and theories that might be of particular help to you - for example, psychodynamic, humanistic, existential, compassion-focused and embodied approaches. I take a holistic approach to wellbeing - working with mindbody interconnectedness and endeavouring to understand you in all your wider life contexts. The therapy I offer is trauma-informed, queer and neuro- affirmative. Sensitive to dynamics of power and privilege, I am committed to inclusive, anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice.
I have particular experience and interest in supporting fellow people within the LGBTQIA+ community and with gender, sexuality and relationship diversity.
I am also experienced in working with: trauma, attachment histories and relationships, addictions, existential concerns, anxiety and depression, chronic shame, loss and bereavement, ageing and life transitions, menopause, and somatic presentations.
I currently work with adults and offer in-person sessions only. Sessions can be either for a fixed term or open-ended, always with regular ongoing reviews. We will contract for our work together, so you will be clear of the terms of our working relationship. You are always in control of bringing about the ending of your therapy with me.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Greenwich University, and I am a registered member of the BACP (Reg. no. 386468), working in accordance with its Ethical Framework. I am committed to continual further learning and development of myself and of my practice.
I decided to retrain as a counsellor in 2014, following many positive experiences of therapy in helping me through my own life challenges and then feeling in a position to ‘give back’. I honour being able to be deeply present alongside people in their vulnerability.
Before establishing my own practice, I have provided counselling in several mental health charities in both London and Brighton, and in university wellbeing and low-cost private services in London, over the past ten years.
I have previously also worked in supporting roles in the media, visual arts and hospitality industries.
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.
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Fees
£65.00 per session
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Further information
If you would like to get a better sense of how we might work together before taking any further steps, I offer a free initial 30 minute exploratory discussion - please do get in touch.
