About me
A warm hello and welcome to you. Looking for a counsellor, or beginning therapy can be daunting and confusing. Be encouraged. Keep going.
Maybe life events, a crisis or your current relationships are creating high anxiety and overwhelm. Maybe you have been struggling with difficult thoughts and feelings, like anger, sadness or depression, leaving you confused, helpless-feeling or self-doubting. Or perhaps you are struggling in close relationships or need help from painful relationships or narcissism.
Be encouraged. I deeply believe that wherever you find yourself now, you can find your way to a better future, and a calmer, more grounded 'you'.
I am on your side, and committed to offering you a trauma-trained space, supported by my warm and relational presence. My 'integrative' background means that I'm trained in a wide range of different therapeutic approaches that I can draw from appropriately, according to you and your unique needs. These may include, for example, exploring at thoughts, understanding feelings and behaviours, increasing embodied awareness, understanding your attachment styles, developing relaxation techniques, creative enquiry, inner parts work and coaching among other things. All in service if getting you thinking, feeling, and living a better life.
What next?
If you feel I could be the right person to help you please email or phone me (you can leave a message confidentially) and I will respond to you as soon as possible. We will then find a time for an initial assessment session. This can be online, by phone on in person. I will assist you in feeling comfortable around issues relating to phone or online sessions if you feel concerned about this, and happy to answer any queries or concerns. I very much look forward to hearing from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I work with individuals (adults) and couples /dyads in both a private practice context and with an agency, and have been seeing clients since 2013. A sample of my certificates are:
- BA (Hons) Counselling
- IFS (Internal Family Systems) Level 1
- Emotion-focused Therapy for Couples
- Focusing-oriented Therapy
- Trauma Treatment with CBT, EMDR and Somatic-Based Interventions
- Certified Life Coach
- Online and Telephone Counselling
I am continually learning, and regularly attend further training and updating of knowledge and skills. Some recent training includes:
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Working with Anger
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Shame and Compassion
- Creative therapy
- Embodied therapy
- Transactional Analysis
- Attachment styles
- Brainspotting
- Enneagram of Personality
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.
The Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions (ACC) is a Christian professional membership organisation for those involved in counselling/psychotherapy and linked professions, i.e. pastoral care, coaching and spiritual direction, in the UK. The organisation is made up of various different membership categories, including Counsellor and Accredited, and requires all members working as counsellors to undertake Continuous Professional Development on a regular basis.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- CPTSD (Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder)
- EUPD (Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder)
- Developmental Trauma
- Relationship and communication issues
- Cross-cultural issues
- Resilience-building
Therapies offered
Fees
Additional information
- Individual online are from £80
- Individual in-person are from £95
- Pure IFS Therapy online is from £90
- Pure IFS Therapy in-person is from £110
- Couples (online only) are from £110
I have a small number of reduced rate sessions available - please feel free to ask about these.
Further information
I work with adults (18 years old and up) online, by phone, or face-to-face.
Couples therapy is currently only online.
I will also consider home visits.
