About me
As a trauma-informed, emotion-focused Person-Centred Experiential (PCE) therapist, I know that life can sometimes feel like a constant churn. We live with busy minds and the fear of an uncertain future. We can feel trapped, or find ourselves reliving a painful past. Bereavement, the ending of a relationship, living with a painful body or a long-term health condition, the loss of a role we held any of these can impact our mental health and leave us anxious, low, lonely, or wondering whether our lives still hold meaning.
If you are currently journeying through any of these experiences, then maybe therapy might be helpful.
Choosing a Therapist
Looking for a therapist is a courageous step in exploring concerns that are upsetting you. Perhaps you feel anxious or self-critical about sharing them with someone else, or worried about what comes next. Working with clients, I’ve found that people often share similar themes. Shame, and a sense of worthlessness. A feeling that traumatic experiences, long-term health conditions, or their painful bodies have come to define them. Anger, guilt, rejection, feeling hurt, alone, or insignificant. Feeling stuck in unfulfilling relationships, unseen, unheard, or taken for granted. Lacking a sense of purpose, or feeling trapped in a role that no longer holds meaning.
If any of these themes resonate with you, then you may find it helpful to work with me, online or face-to-face.
About Me
As a trauma-informed Person-Centred Experiential therapist, I believe that an empathic, tender and compassionate space is the ground from which healing and change can grow. Within it, you can feel safe to explore the concerns that are upsetting you. As you tune into your feelings, your body and your thoughts, the burden can begin to lighten, and you can come to trust the wisdom that already lives within you.
What is PCE Therapy?
Person-Centred Experiential Therapy is the contemporary version of the Person-Centred approach to counselling. Grounded in present-moment empathic attunement, relational dialogue, genuineness, and compassion, I offer a safe space for you to listen to the messages your inner feelings are telling you, which can help you to make sense of your emotions, and develop new life meanings.
PCE Therapy, Depression and Anxiety
PCE is a recognised therapeutic way of working. The NHS offers it for depression alongside other talking therapies, and where it has been compared with CBT, people have been helped just as much. It can also support people living with anxiety in its various forms, including panic, generalised anxiety, phobias and agoraphobia.
Barkham, M., Saxon, D., Hardy, G. E., et al. (2021). Person-centred experiential therapy versus cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of moderate or severe depression (PRaCTICED). The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(6), 487–499.
Neurodiversity
Drawing on client work and decades of lived experience of neurodivergence ADHD, autism and autistic burnout, I offer safe and supportive therapeutic spaces, face-to-face and online, for neurodivergent clients and those who support them: spaces where being neurodiverse can be tenderly and compassionately explored, and where different ways of being and relating are welcomed and celebrated.
Free Introductory Calls
I recognise that choosing a therapist who may resonate with you can feel daunting. Believing the therapeutic relationship is fundamental to healing and change, I offer a free 15-minute no-obligation telephone or online conversation where we can explore what you are looking for, how I work, whether we both feel we could work together and other relevant practicalities.
Training, qualifications & experience
Therapeutic Experience
I'm currently employed by a leading North-West counselling agency for men, where I support clients experiencing a range of mental health difficulties and social differences, including anxiety, ADHD, autism, addiction, anger, bereavement, bullying, depression, gambling, family issues, health anxiety, life after prison, loneliness, low self-esteem, redundancy, suicidal thoughts, trauma, work-related stress. I have also supported people with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, Myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome and supporting people and their families living with cancer within an NHS clinical setting.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons.) Person-centred experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Level 4 Diploma in Person-Centred Therapeutic Counselling
- Level 3 Certificate in Person-Centred Counselling Skills
- Counselling Tutor in Online and Telephone Counselling
Training
- British Focusing Association Focusing Skills Level 5 Certification
- British Focusing Association Focusing Practitioner (In Training)
- Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher (working towards Breathworks Mindfulness Accreditation)
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Additional information
Sessions start at £50.
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