About me
About my service:
I offer a compassionate and confidential one-to-one counselling service supporting young people and adults with a range of emotional difficulties including bereavement and loss, anxiety, depression, stress and trauma.
The aim of my service is to listen and understand you, help you address your problems and support you to lead a more fulfilled life. There are no judgements and I will treat you with compassion and respect.
The first session we have together will be a deeper assessment of your needs and a chance for you to tell me why you have chosen to attend counselling at this time. This initial assessment takes approximately one hour, sometimes longer if required. Every session after that is 50 minutes (one therapeutic hour).
Please contact me via the Counselling Directory to enquire further about my service or to book a free 15 minute telephone or on-line consultation. This is an opportunity to ask me any questions you might have about my service. It's also a chance to see if we might be suited to each other. This is a big commitment and I understand you would want to get the right person.
I offer weekly or fortnightly sessions for people wanting counselling.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold an Advanced Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Level 5), accredited by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), and I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP).
Since 2015, I have worked in private practice, supporting adults and young people with issues including bereavement, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, suicidal thoughts, and abuse.
Alongside my private practice, I support children, young people and their families with the children's mental health charity Place2Be. In addition, I work part-time as a counsellor in a Liverpool secondary school and have previously worked as a therapist in specialist SEMH and SEND settings.
I also hold a Level 6 certificate in counselling supervision providing supervision to counsellors at various stages of their professional development.
Previous experience includes volunteering with Cruse Bereavement Support, helping adults navigate grief and loss. I later became a supervisor, supporting both newly qualified and experienced bereavement volunteers.
My particular interests include attachment theory, developmental trauma and bereavement and loss.
Post qualification CPD/training includes:
- Aug 2026: Counselling Directory online workshop: OCD and how to work with it effectively
- May 2026: CCMH workshop 'Working with extreme distress: healing through relationships' with Margot Sunderland and Dr Dan Hughes (online)
- Apr 2026: Place2Be webinar 'Trauma Informed Practice'
- Mar 2026: BACP Children, Young People and Families Conference 2026 (online)
- Sep 2025: Dr. David Burns - Overcoming Perfectionism: A TEAM-CBT
Journey from Self-Criticism to Self-Acceptance - Nov 2024: The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation; Part I
The Adult Child in Therapy - Apr-Aug 2024 - Good Grief Masterclasses: 'Supporting people towards the end of life', ' Life after loss – how bereavement changes who we are', 'When Grief is Complicated', 'Continuing Bonds Theory: how relationships transcend death', 'How to start healing after a bereavement' and 'Making Meaning in Loss'
- Mar 2024 - BACP Children, Young People & Families Conference 2024: Neurodiversity: the therapeutic encounter
- Oct 2023 - Advanced Adult Safeguarding
- Oct 2023 - Level 3 certificate in self-harm and suicide ideation (Harmless Ltd)
- Nov 2022 - Mar 2023: Level 6 certificate in Clinical Supervision (accredited by CPCAB)
- Oct 2022 CONFER webinar - Working with Ambiguous Loss
- Aug 2022 Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
- May 2022 CYP Gambling and Gaming Addiction
- Mar 2022 Working with Depression: An integrative and creative approach
- Oct 2021 The Trauma Series Part I: Resilience, Dissociation, and the Body Restoring Regulation, Balance, and a Sense of Self After Trauma with Dr Ruth Lanuis
- Mar 2021 - BACP Children, Young People & Families (On-line) Conference 2021 'Weathering the storm: counselling in a changing climate'
- Feb 2021 - A short guide to what every psychological therapist should know about working with psychiatric drugs
- Sep 2020 - BACP The changing landscape of college and school based counselling
- Sep 2020 - BACP Private Practice 2020: Communication: Can you understand me?
- Aug 2020 - Responding to Domestic Abuse
- Nov 2019 - TA101: An introduction to Transactional Analysis (The Berne Centre)
- Oct 2019 - Safeguarding Children: Gangs and CSE
Quotes from previous clients:
"It's been so helpful working with you...I want to thank you for all the progress you helped me with and for your kindness and compassion during a difficult time in my life." (Mar 2025)
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
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Fees
£45.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Standard charge
Counselling: My standard charge is £45.00 per initial assessment and counselling session. I do offer a concessionary rate for specific individuals (see above).
Supervision: My current charge for supervision is £65.00 for an hour and a half session. I offer a reduced fee of £45.00 to trainee counsellors/therapists who are undertaking supervision as part of their training.
When I work
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Please note, my private practice is open Thursday to Friday only at the times issued below:
Thu 9:00am - 8:00pm
Fri 9:00am - 6:00pm
I do not offer any availability outside these hours.
Further information
My private practice is located in a quiet area of Waterloo (Sefton) close to Crosby beach.
If you are travelling by car, there is limited parking on our avenue although the daytime is generally okay and there is plenty of alternative parking along our adjacent road.
If you are travelling by public transport, Waterloo train station is a 15 minute walk from my home. Alternatively, you can catch the number 53 bus which stops on Oxford Road with a very short walk to my home.
I do online sessions via Doxy Me or Microsoft Teams if getting to me in-person is difficult.
