This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Starting counselling can feel like an intimidating/scary thing, but asking for help/recognising that you need support, is one of the bravest and strongest things you can do. I am an experienced Person-centred counsellor - I work with people of all ages, with any issues they may need to work through.
Person-centred counselling is a humanistic approach that sees the client as the 'expert' of themselves because only you truly know what it is like to live inside your mind. The person-centred approach is a non-directive one, meaning that you are unlikely to be given tasks or homework to do as may happen within approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and a lot of what happens in sessions should be led by you. However, this does not mean you are alone in your journey to feeling better - I am there to support you as you work through things.
Please do feel free to get in touch with me to discuss any questions you may have about this type of therapy or the format of sessions.
What to expect if you choose to contact me about sessions:
I will aim to be in touch with you within 48 hours to make initial contact as due to the nature of this work, I am often not able to immediately respond to phone calls.
Firstly we would have a free 20 minute phone conversation to see if we both feel we could work together and then from that point we would go into having full length sessions in a format agreed by us both (telephone, video call or face to face).
Training, qualifications & experience
My qualifications are as follows:
- Post-Graduate Certificate in Person-centred Counselling (University of East Anglia)
- Post-Graduate Diploma Person-centred Counselling (University of East Anglia)
- MA Counselling (University of East Anglia)
- Person-centred Experiential Counselling for Depression qualification (Metanoia Institute)
- Accredited member of the BACP
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.
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
£50.00 - £60.00
Additional information
- Sessions are 50 minutes long
- They cost £50 per virtual session, £60 for face to face.
- I am based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
- Initial assessment (20 mins telephone or video call) is free.
When I work
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My working hours are predominantly daytimes (including a Saturday morning), but I can offer some early evening appointments.
