This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Reaching out for help is the first step…
I understand that talking can be difficult, especially if feelings have been buried for a long while. I will work with compassion and at your pace, ensuring you feel comfortable and safe.
Therapy can help to make sense of how you feel and gain greater self-awareness. It can be a place to understand and address current and/or past issues, identify patterns and create change. Confronting difficult feelings can be challenging however therapy can provide a secure place to express them. Knowing that you are not alone on your journey, but that someone is next to you along the way can provide some comfort.
I am a warm, empathic person who can provide a professional non-judgmental space for you to work through problems that are affecting you. I have experience of working with a range of different issues, such as, but not a limited to relationship difficulties, loss, abuse, trauma, bullying, self-harm, stress, domestic violence, anxiety, and depression.
As a relational practitioner, I place great value on the therapeutic relationship and the importance of building trust. I work predominantly from a person-centered core, which holds you as the expert focusing on what you want to explore in therapy. I believe that there is potential in all of us to move towards change. A person-centered approach seeks to empower your awareness of this, progressing towards a more authentic self. As a trained, experienced integrative therapist I can adopt different therapeutic approaches, such as CBT, Psychodynamic, and attachment to suit your needs.
I am experienced working with both adults and adolescents and can provide short- and long-term therapy.
I hold full professional and public liability insurance. I am also DBS (CRB) enhanced checked, this can be viewed up request.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training, and experience
I currently work as a counsellor in a secondary school supporting young people aged 11–18. In addition to this I work as a counsellor with adults at Banners Gate Counselling Centre.
I have previously worked counselling adults at Carrs Lane Counselling Centre.
I maintain regular individual and group supervision to ensure I am practising ethically.
Alongside my formal qualifications, I attend regular CPD and training to further my professional development.
Training
- Suicide Prevention Training First Aid Lite
- Using Sand Tray in Therapy
- Eating Disorders Training for Professionals
Qualifications
I am a registered member (MBACP) of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and adhere to their ethical framework.
Qualifications include:
- PG dip Level 7 Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- Foundation to Drawing and Talking Therapy
- CPCAB Level 3 Counselling skills
- CPCAB Level 2 Counselling skills
- CPCAB Effective Listening skills Course
- PGCE Secondary Drama Teaching
- BA Hons Modern Drama Studies
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free initial 20-minute phone call or online chat to understand a little of what you hope to gain from therapy.
When I work
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Further information
There is car park on site with allocated spaces for clients to use.
