About me
Finding the right counsellor can feel overwhelming, we are not a one size fits all. Whether it’s relationship or individual counselling you are looking for, let me help you decide whether I would be a suitable candidate to help you based on my training and background.
My training, practice and life experience shows me that the best way to help people is to give them a safe space to explore their life learnings and let them talk through their thoughts and feelings. Anxiety can make us ill when it controls us, and having to hold thoughts and feeling inside can feel like a pressure cooker. I will help you find a your own path forward by respecting your opinions and listening with unconditional positive regard.
The way I work provides a broad range of counselling services to my clients, and beside relationships work, I have a keen interest in helping young adults and their families including those who have encountered emotional health (ADHD, ADD, OCD) or physical health (epilepsy, diabetes) challenges. I also have personal direct and indirect experiences of loss at a young age and gender dysphoria.
I am very flexible in terms of availability, as I can work any time of the day or evening. Clients do choose online for flexibility.
Whether you are unfamiliar with the concept of counselling and don’t know if it’s right for you or have a clear and immediate need please reach out when you are ready. We start with a no-obligation introduction call to determine whether we feel we can work together and explore the next steps.
If we are all happy to proceed further, then we will create a mutually agreeable series of one to thirty sessions at a frequency of your choosing. With relationships, it tends to be a series of ten sessions. At the end of each series, we will review the next steps with the option to extend our arrangement.
Training, qualifications & experience
Having the space to feel heard, understood and supported can be crucial to feeling happier and more at ease in our lives.
My psychosexual and relationship training has taught me how important sex can be to everyone, whether we’re having it or not. Being able to talk about our own experiences can be incredibly freeing and healing.
Not everyone communicates in the same way. When relationships are not going the way we feel they should, it can be hard to know what to do. Life will change for one or all and finding a new way of being together will be needed. Whatever you think is the issue, there can be a way of working it out.
Intimacy and sex can often be a conflict within a relationship. The reasons are vast and varied but being able to really talk about it and be understood by the other can feel difficult. Having another person in the room can help both sides to be heard, and can open up pathways that you never knew existed.
Before my career as a therapist, I was a teaching assistant for primary schools. I assisted in Key Stage 2 classes and started training to be a counsellor when I realised that many students needed someone to listen to them express their life challenges. The importance of this for their whole wellbeing, became more and more evident.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My standard fees are:
Individualss sessions : £45
Couples sessions : £70
I never want money to be a barrier for people receiving the help they need. I therefore provide a limited number of spaces at a reduced cost. If this is something you need, talk to me about.
When I work
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