About me
About my practice
I work with adults and offer a safe, empathic and non-judgemental space where you will have the freedom to explore your feelings and gain insight into your thoughts, emotions and behaviours. We will work together to identify and look at what is troubling you and to find a way through and beyond your difficulties.
Practice description
I am a psychodynamic counsellor, which means we will focus on events that may have impacted you in the past and, while you may not be fully aware of them, continue to cause you difficulties today. You may find yourself repeating and reliving unwanted patterns or have a sense of feeling trapped in hard-to-resolve situations, or maybe just feeling that something isn’t quite right. Together we will gradually uncover these deep-seated issues and work through them carefully and at your own pace.
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (Wessex Counselling and Psychotherapy)
I am a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and a registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP).
Member organisations
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 British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). 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
£50.00 per session
Additional information
I offer an introductory session, to discuss your needs, for you to get a sense of how I work, and whether it is an appropriate choice for you. These sessions are £25, and both these and my standard session are of 50 minute duration.
