About me
Sometimes the hardest part of healing is admitting that what you're carrying feels too much to manage alone. Maybe you look like you are managing from the outside, while inside you feel anxious, low, overwhelmed, burnt out or simply not yourself any more. With couples, perhaps you've been papering over the cracks for a while but it feels like something is going to break.
I work with people who have spent a long time holding things together, sometimes in the aftermath of difficult or abusive experiences, complex trauma or CPTSD. Others come because life looks “fine” on paper, yet there's self-doubt, shame, people pleasing or a sense of having lost who they are.
You don't need to arrive with a neat version of events or the “right” words. We can start wherever you are, whether that is a specific incident, a vague feeling that something is off, or a long standing pattern you're tired of repeating. My style is calm, thoughtful and down to earth, with room for both seriousness and gentle humour. We will move at a pace that feels manageable and keep checking together what is helpful for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an integrative counsellor with a humanistic foundation, which means I am interested in you as a whole person, not a checklist of symptoms. In our sessions we might explore your current struggles, the story you carry about yourself, and the impact of past relationships and events. I draw from relational and psychodynamic ideas, trauma informed practice, behavioural skills and parts work - always in collaboration with you. We pay attention to what has happened in the past, but also to how your nervous system is coping here and now.
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
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60 for 50 minute session
£100 for 80 minute session (couples)
Further information
I welcome clients from a wide range of backgrounds and identities, and aim to offer an inclusive, affirming space for people of all genders, sexualities, neurotypes and relationship structures.
I offer in person sessions from a quiet garden room in Saffron Walden and online counselling across the UK. If you are curious about working together, you are very welcome to get in touch with a brief outline of what is going on for you, and we can explore whether I feel like a good fit.
