About me
Individual Counselling
You may be grieving, feeling lost, anxious, or disconnected. These feelings can arise suddenly or gradually, often triggered by major life events or difficult relationships. Our identities constantly evolve with life’s changes, which can make coping challenging and leave us uncertain about ourselves or others. Counselling provides a safe, supportive space to explore your thoughts, feelings and the impact of relationships, helping you gain insight into your values and patterns. Through therapy, you can develop effective coping strategies, foster positive change, rebuild self-esteem, and reconnect with your sense of self.
Couples Counselling
In relationship counselling, I begin by exploring your patterns of handling conflict. Recognising whether you withdraw, concede, or seek agreement is key to understanding your relationship dynamics. Relationships require an ongoing commitment as partners change and face life events like parenthood, illness, loss, or betrayal, each bringing emotional challenges.
Counselling offers a safe space to address these transitions together, fostering awareness and connection. By exploring conflict management, couples can break old habits and try new communication approaches, promoting personal and relational growth.
Throughout sessions, you'll learn practical strategies and communication skills to strengthen your relationship, which you can apply both in counselling and daily life for continued progress.
Therapeutic support and strategies for Parents and Carers
I provide consultation services for parents and careers to address concerns about young people. We look at how relationships, development, or circumstances affect your child, and find new ways to support or understand their difficulties.
Consultations focus on your challenges as a parent or carer, including your experiences and feelings. The “good enough” parenting approach balances care with boundaries, fostering a secure environment where your child can be authentic.
Supervision
Supervision is a space for learning, reflecting, collaborating and sustaining resilience for your development.
My priority, as a supervisor, is to offer a professional, safe and trustworthy relationship for you to develop and grow at whatever stage in your training or career in counselling. I am respectful of your way of working and of you as an individual.
During each supervision session you will be able to explore your client work in all contexts: relationships, difference and diversity, self-awareness and professional and personal development.
I use the Developmental model and Process model of supervision. I am an integrative counsellor and have experience of working with different modalities, therefore bringing this learning into my work with you, if appropriate.
I have been supervising since 2013 and completed the Diploma of the practice of Supervision in 2017. I have experience of working with all client groups, Individuals and Couples in personal, educative and professional settings, and with children in schools since 2011.
Please contact me to arrange an initial meeting to determine if I am the right supervisor for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma HE Therapeutic Counselling (2011)
Level 2 qualification in Understanding Autism (2023)
Diploma in the practice of Supervision (2017)
Introduction counselling couples (2025)
I am an experienced, qualified counsellor with a Diploma of Higher Education in Therapeutic Counselling. I am an Approved Counsellor with Barnardo's Adoption Agency that is registered to provide adoption placement and support services.
I am an experienced Supervisor of trainee and qualified counsellors working with Children, Adolescents, Adult and couples clients.
I have experience of working with people from many different cultures and with a diverse range of issues including;
Neurodiversity
Depression
Anxiety
Self Harm
Adoption
Loss
Relationships including couples counselling
Self & Identity
Welfare & Employment
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
£60.00 - £95.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
At the first session it is important for me to gather some information about you as an individual or couple; as part of an assessment.
This assessment ensures all parties understand confidentiality within the counselling contract and there is a clear agreement on your goals for counselling.
We can also agree on the number of sessions you would like to work towards and the frequency of the sessions.
Selecting the right counsellor is important, and I am here to help you address your challenges. I offer a free, 20-minute phone or online consultation so you can ask questions, discuss concerns, and decide if my approach suits you—without obligation to continue.
I offer long-term, short-term (6-8 sessions) or brief therapy (4-6 sessions); we can talk about this at the first meeting.
Individual clients fees are £60 per session. Fees for trainee counsellors may differ, please let me know if this applies to you.
Couples counselling fees are £85 per hour or £95 per 75 minutes.
Fees for supervision start from £60 per hour. Fees for trainee counsellors may differ, please let me know if this applies to you.
When I work
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Further information
For face to face counselling, I work in Harrogate, close to public transport and there is free parking or free disc parking. My therapy room is a 5/10 minute walk from Betty's in Harrogate.
Online counselling or Telephone counselling options are available to any client within the UK.
I am also flexible if you prefer a mix of both face to face or Online/Telephone if this suits you.
I see clients in their own home- an additional fee will be negotiated for this, depending on travel time.
