About me
Life can be hard, and change can be hard. They can be made even harder by critical voices and unconscious conflicts that hold us back from fulfilling our potential, forming and maintaining rewarding relationships and enjoying the good in our lives. As a therapist, I offer my clients a therapeutic relationship that supports making long lasting change.
I offer a warm, relaxed, confidential, judgment-free and compassionate space for clients to explore their present challenges and gain deeper understanding of themselves and their goals. I work in client-led and integrative way, which means I collaborate with my clients and incorporate different models of therapy according to their individual needs. While it can be daunting to explore the past, this can help us understand ourselves in the present and learn more adaptive ways of coping for the future. I am also passionate about the power of the brain-body connection and often combine talking therapy with guided breathing, meditation and visualisation techniques.
I have a special interest and knowledge in working with the enduring effects of childhood and adolescent trauma, the psychological impact of physical health conditions (e.g. adjusting to a chronic diagnosis), psychosexual conditions and perinatal psychology (e.g. antenatal anxiety/depression, birth trauma, fertility and gynaecology issues) and working with couples.
Life can be hard, and change can be hard. They can be made even harder by critical voices and unconscious conflicts that hold us back from fulfilling our potential, forming relationships and enjoying the good in our lives. As a therapist, I endeavour to offer my clients a therapeutic relationship that support making long lasting change.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have over 8 years experience working in mental health and wellbeing settings, including the NHS and charitable organisations, for both short-term and long-term therapy. I am a HCPC registered practitioner psychologist and am trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Person-Centred, Psychodynamic and Systemic models of therapy. I have specialist knowledge of working with clinical health psychology, psychosexual conditions and have gained additional training post-qualification training in couple therapy.
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 HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
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
£90.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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