About me
50 minute appointments are £55
Firstly, I acknowledge counselling doesn’t suit everyone, and that’s ok, great even. Counselling is an exploratory and learning process and we don’t all process information in the same way. My approach is to invite you to explore whatever you need to and help you make sense of this through reflective listening, questioning and sometimes exercises. I get it might not seem like a lot or even I am doing much! However a therapeutic conversation can be very powerful. When was the last time you had permission to just talk about yourself and your concerns?
An important part of my approach is acceptance. Counsellors will say they offer you a ‘non-judgement’ space and for me this means hearing you without criticism or praise, I accept you as you are now. By offering acceptance and giving you space to explore and learn, hopefully you will start to understand yourself better. This might be realising why you think and behave in certain ways and identify triggers. Counselling can be to explore what has happened in the past, and it can be helpful to explore how we think and feel now, usually it is a combination of both. And this can lead to the next stage of the counselling process, implementing change if that’s what you want.
Before your first session I offer a free 15 minute phone call. This is so I can understand your needs a bit better to make sure I have the right skills to support you. It also gives you the opportunity to ask any questions.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- Postgraduate Certificate in Interpersonal and Counselling Skills.
- Foundation in Bereavement Counselling.
- Foundation in Solution Focused Brief 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.
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
£55.00 per session
Additional information
£55 per 50 min session.
When I work
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