About me
Do you find yourself wanting to belong and are not sure how to fit in? Do you feel stuck and are unsure of how to move forward? Have you found your tribe or community yet? Do you feel like an outsider or disconnected from others? These might just scratch the surface of the questions that may come up, and they are all important in gaining awareness of what might be lying underneath.
With you being the expert of your own experiencing, we will work collaboratively, in finding what would be supportive for you. I am compassionate and provide a non-judgmental space whilst also being able to challenge you and ask questions, supporting you in looking at alternative perspectives that might not have presented themselves yet.
We all want to feel a sense of belonging and being part of something other than ourselves, which is engrained in the way we interact with the world around us. But we might be impacted by our past experiences like how we grew up, our relationships with others and impactful life events. These can influence our feelings, behaviors and thinking which might show up in different ways affecting our self-worth and how we experience the world around us such as feeling desperate, critical, and hopeless. Being able to find more self-awareness in our experiencing from the past and present, can help us to make informed decisions and choices for the future.
I would like my clients to feel a sense of hope and agency in their life stories, and I hope to support you in finding that bright spot even when it might be difficult to see at first.
Training, qualifications & experience
I provide integrative counselling, drawing from Person Centred, CBT and Psychodynamic approaches as well as using psychoeducation to aid in understanding. I also incorporate other techniques which might be useful in our work, e.g. creativity, Polyvagal Theory and compassionate focused elements.
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
If you do not see a specific issue ticked below does not mean that I cannot work with you, so please do get in touch if you do want to work with me.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£45.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
There are low cost slots available however I cannot guarantee the availability of these. So if you are interested please get in touch with me and we can talk about more details and possible further options as well.
When I work
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Further information
Sessions are either face-to-face or online. They will be 50 minutes long on a weekly basis; however, we can review the frequency over the course of our work together.
I can offer long- and short-term sessions for clients, which means depending on your circumstances and needs we will look together at what would be most beneficial for you.
Choosing a therapist can be quite a daunting experience, so we can have a chat before an assessment session in more detail for you to get a feel for my way of working without a charge.
Our first session will be 90 minutes long and used as an information gathering session to assess your current circumstances in more depth and what areas we might want to focus on in our work together. This is also for you to see, whether l am a good fit and you feel comfortable with the way that I work. If yes, after the first session, we can then fill out the necessary paperwork and book further sessions.
If I am not the right fit for you or if I believe a different approach might be more suited for you (e.g. a more specific type of therapy), I will then signpost you other resources that might be helpful.
