About me
Hello, I’m Liane
I’m a qualified counsellor working with individuals and couples, face-to-face in Buckhurst Hill and online.
My foundation is person-centred, and that’s the part you’ll feel most: I won’t rush you, judge you, or arrive with a plan for how you should be. But I work psychodynamically too. That means I’m interested in patterns — the argument you keep having that shows up in different situations and relationships, the way you learned very early on what to do with anger, or need, or wanting. Often what’s happening now makes much more sense once we understand where it was learned.
Individual therapy
I work with the effects of childhood sexual abuse and other trauma, with grief and bereavement, and with those quieter arrivals — feeling stuck at a crossroads, or sensing that something needs to change without yet knowing what. Some of this is painful to put into words for the first time. There’s no pressure to tell me anything before you’re ready.
Trauma has a way of shaping how safe it feels to be close to someone, and that often shows up long after the events themselves.
Couples and relationships
I trained with Relate to work with couples and have worked with conflict, communication that’s broken down, money, betrayal, and the slow drift that can happen when life gets busy.
I’m currently studying for an MSc in Psychosexual Therapy at Tavistock Relationships — an intensive clinical training in sex and intimacy in relationships. It’s changed how I work. Sex is often the thing couples talk about last, or not at all, and it’s frequently where the relationship’s real story is being told. So I’ll ask. Warmly, and without embarrassment, because it’s ordinary to me even when it isn’t yet ordinary to you.
That might include differences in desire, when one of you wants sex more or differently than the other; sex that’s become painful, difficult or anxious; erectile or orgasm difficulties; loss of desire after childbirth, illness, menopause or medication; rebuilding intimacy after an affair; or a sex life that has quietly stopped and neither of you knows how to start the conversation.
I welcome all couples — living together or apart, married or not, straight or LGBTQI+, monogamous or otherwise.
You can find out more from my website and if you think I could be the right counsellor for you, please do get in touch. We can arrange an initial session to explore working together.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies
- Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Member of BACP
- Relate Certificate in Relational Counselling
- MSc in Psychosexual Therapy (currently in training with Tavistock Relationships)
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Facilitating trauma-based workshops for the last 15 years has given me a valuable insight and a grounded capacity to support clients through their trauma.
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 - £100.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I do have a small number of low-cost places available for both individuals and couples. If these are taken you are welcome to join my waiting list.
When I work
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I can be accommodating to fit around your schedule.
