About me
I provide counselling and equine facilitated counselling.
Counselling
I work with adults with a wide range of presenting problems, including anxiety, depression and grief. I also work with clients who come to counselling to have a space to check in with themselves and improve their mental health.
I offer an empathic and consistent presence to accompany you in your counselling. I am dedicated to creating a safe environment for you to work through what's on your mind. I will support you through your challenges. Together we will work towards your goals for therapy.
I approach my role with the philosophy that each person is unique. I believe each of us has our own challenges in life, which are incomparable and equally valid. I see your needs as individual and recognise your story is unique. This philosophy led me to train as an integrative counsellor as this allows me to utilise different theories and techniques to adapt my approach to meet your individual needs.
Equine Facilitated Counselling
Equine facilitated counselling combines counselling with interactions with horses to help people tackle challenges in their lives. I create a tailored programme which will support you to achieve your goals for the work.
I offer short-term programmes which involve a structured set of activities with horses over an agreed number of sessions, usually between 8 and 12.
I also offer long term equine facilitated counselling. Session format in long term work varies. Some sessions are spent doing activities with horses, others we may spend talking, either in the field with the horses or in my cosy counselling cabin.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have experience counselling a wide variety of clients in both charities and private services. The services in which I have worked developed my experience delivering both time-limited and open-ended counselling.
Supporting the work I do is theoretical knowledge learnt during my BACP-accredited professional training. My training entailed three years of theoretical learning and two years of seeing clients in supervised clinical placements. I was taught both humanistic and psychodynamic approaches to counselling and learned how to combine these into a flexible, consistent, client-centred approach.
I also combine my level 4 diploma in equine facilitated learning with my counselling training in a face-to-face Equine Facilitated Counselling practice.
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
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Fees
£45.00 - £100.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fees are:
- £45 per 50-minute online counselling session.
- £100 per 90-minute equine facilitated counselling session.
- £55 per 50-minute face to face counselling session.
Concessionary rates are available. Based on demand there may be a waiting list.
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