This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Are you feeling anxious, depressed, lost, lonely, or disconnected from others? Have you lost a loved one and are feeling overwhelmed with grief? Maybe you’re experiencing unhelpful thoughts around “not being good enough” or “feeling unable to cope”? Or are using work, shopping, exercise, food, drugs and/or alcohol as a way of coping? If any of these resonate with you, you are not alone. I can offer you a warm, empathic, safe space where you can feel comfortable to talk to me about anything, whether it is your current situation that is troubling you or something that happened to you in your past.
The decision to seek counselling can be a daunting one. It takes a lot of courage to take that first step, and it’s important to choose the right counsellor for you. Counselling gives you the time and space to gain insight, increase your self-esteem, feel empowered to move towards a more fulfilling way of life, and develop new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Our first session will give us the opportunity to get to know each other, and for you to tell me what you would like to focus on during our time together. We can then both get a sense of whether continuing sessions are likely to be helpful. If we decide to continue, we will then go though my therapeutic contract and agree a framework for our sessions together. This may initially be for a fixed number of sessions, or you may prefer to start counselling on an ongoing basis without a fixed time limit.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a humanistic integrative counsellor DipHIC (BCPC) this means that I draw on different counselling approaches and techniques. I work in a more relational and holistic way so that each session is tailored to your individual needs. During our time together, we will explore and make sense of, your thoughts and feelings around the issues and relationships that you are struggling with, at a pace that feels right for you.
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 National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
£55.00 per session
