About me
I am a trauma-informed psychotherapeutic counsellor with over 26 years’ experience working with frontline emergency services and the NHS. I specialise in supporting male and female survivors of sexual violence, domestic abuse, and issues relating to bodily autonomy, including circumcision.
I also support those navigating the impact of stress, trauma, and difficult experiences, exploring how these shape thoughts, emotions, relationships, and identity. I work collaboratively, starting with what is happening in the present and what feels most important to you.
I help people understand overwhelming emotional and psychological responses linked to trauma, burnout, grief, anxiety, and relationship difficulties. Together we explore how past experiences continue to influence present reactions, so these become more manageable over time.
I understand that life can reach a point where things feel overwhelming, stuck, or difficult to make sense of. Reaching out can feel significant. Working together offers space to slow things down and begin to find a more stable and manageable way forward.
For more information, visit: www.thefrontlinecounsellor.co.uk
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc in Psychotherapeutic Counselling: Distinction
- Post Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling: Distinction (training in all core approaches to counselling).
- Post Graduate Certificate in Counselling: Distinction
- BSc (Hons) Psychology and Social Policy
Further training includes:
- Trauma informed training with a national Domestic violence and sexual abuse charity.
- Training in affirmative therapy with people with disability/impairment.
- Working with difference and culture.
- Working remotely.
Member organisations
- Registered membership of the BACP.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Childhood male circumcision and the impact this can have on adult mental health.
Female Genital Mutilation.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
When I work
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I offer flexible counselling sessions. Discount offered for block bookings of six or more sessions.
Further information
Practice description
I that understand your journey throughout life may have brought you to a point of feeling overwhelmed, consumed and stuck resulting in not being able to progress as you would like. It may help to find someone who will help you to begin to make sense of these emotions, gain some clarity, think rationally and work towards a peaceful and more optimistic future.
I work with therapeutic modalities that suit your specific emotional needs, ranging from Humanistic, CBT, Gestalt and Systemic therapy. I will help you to develop your self-awareness, find your true self and empower you by gaining an understanding of how and why you react to certain situations, in turn, enabling you to manage your emotions and life more effectively. By understanding why you make certain choices, that may not always be in your best interests, will allow you to discover yourself through therapy. This awareness will enable you to accept and value who you are.
