About me
I'm a BACP-accredited counsellor and ACT therapist with extensive experience working with adults experiencing a range of psychological difficulties. Alongside counselling, I'm involved in training and supervision for professionals and related research.
I aim to create a space that is safe and non-judgmental, where we can explore both the difficulties you're experiencing as well as the aspects of your life that matter most to you and how to live fully in line with what you value.
In our first session, I will ask you about the issues that have brought you to seek counselling. I will also ask you about any positive aspects of your life and about the aspirations you have for your life. I want to understand what really matters to you. If you have a spiritual life, this can be included in our exploration.
I will give you space to speak about the difficulties you are facing, and the impact these issues are having on you. We will try to understand together how the difficulties have come about, and also what keeps the same difficulties recurring. Understanding yourself better can be a relief, but we often also need to break patterns of behaviour and thinking that are no longer serving us.
Part of my approach is to then introduce skills that help you to act in line with what's important to you rather than old patterns, such as :
- Be more present to events in the moment rather than caught up in thinking troublesome thoughts
- Notice when your thinking is unhelpful and learn to stand back and be less impacted by unhelpful thoughts
- Notice emotions coming and going and gradually improve your ability to open to these and allow them to be experienced.
These skills can help you to learn how to follow through on actions in line with your chosen life direction, even when you are experiencing difficulties.
If you contact me via this site, I will reply as promptly as possible within week days, usually within 24 hours.
I will invite you to speak on the phone or Zoom to discuss whether therapy with me is likely to meet your needs from counselling. Or if you prefer, we can arrange a first session without speaking first.
Following this, if we are both happy to proceed, we will agree a contract making clear how the therapy works in terms of frequency, times, venue, confidentiality, privacy, and cancellations.
Training, qualifications & experience
My professional training includes:
- Humanistic Counselling - Masters level qualification
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) - Peer reviewed trainer with the Association of Contextual Behavioural Sciences
- Psychosynthesis Counselling - 1 year professional development course
- Mindfulness Teacher Training- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher training level 1
I have experience supporting people with difficulties including anxiety, low mood, chronic health problems, substance use, eating difficulties, grief, abuse, strong self-criticism, interpersonal difficulties, as well as diagnosed mental health conditions.
I have worked in specialist mental health, addictions and eating disorder services, as well as in private practice and with university students.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
£60.00 per session
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