About me
I am a fully qualified counsellor with over 7 years of experience.
I am extremely passionate about supporting individuals suffering with emotional distress and believe most people can be helped to self-soothe and heal. My style of counselling does not involve giving advice or telling clients what to do. Instead I feel that support and guidance in self-exploration is the key to better emotional well-being as once an individual can begin to recognise the real version of themselves, they can start to make changes to their lives and ways of thinking which work towards enabling recovery.
I have a relaxing and private counselling room in Hull and and offer appointments face to face on Saturdays. I offer online or telephone counselling some evenings and Saturdays.
Professional Memberships
Member of the British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists (MBACP)
Registrant on the BACP Voluntary Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapist
I also hold a current DBS certificate and I have public and professional liability insurance in place.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience
In addition to working with private clients, I also work within the public sector and charitable organisations.
My experience within the voluntary sector includes working with survivors of domestic violence, stroke survivors and their carers.
Alongside my private work, I am working within an NHS funded service offering Person-Centred Counselling integrated with CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) depending on the needs of my clients.
I also work with non English speaking clients with the help of their nominated interpreter.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Degree Counselling Studies 2014
- Diploma CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)
Further Training
- Supporting Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse
- Accepting and Commitment Therapy Training
- Introduction to Transactional Analysis
- Cruse Bereavement Support Foundation course
Professional Development
- Person Centred Counselling for Older People with Dementia
- Dream Therapy - Working with Dreams
- Time Limited Counselling
- Information Governance
- Perinatal Training
- Dissociation and DID: The Fundamentals
- Trauma and the Body
Member organisations
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
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
Gender Identity
Therapies offered
Fees
From £35.00 to £50.00
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- Individuals face to face - £45.00 per session (Saturdays only)
- Individuals online or telephone - £40.00 per session (Mon - Sat)
- Students - £35.00 per session
- Employment Assistant Programmes and organisations - £50.00 per session
- Each session is 1 hour in duration and sessions can provided weekly or less frequently depending on the client's needs and choice.
Availability
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Face to face sessions are available on Saturdays and online or telephone sessions are available Saturdays and some evening during the week.
Further information
Counselling sessions are offered weekly initially but can vary depending on the needs of the client.
Each session is one hour.
My counselling room has wheelchair access.
I am now offering counselling sessions via Skype.