About me
While this section is called 'About Me', I think it's more important to focus on you. That is, after all, why we are here.
If you're here, you're looking for something or someone to help you. Something has happened that has led you to question where you are with family/relationships/work/yourself (or all the above). Maybe you feel you have everything you wanted, yet you feel dissatisfied and want to figure out why? Maybe something has happened that has shaken you and has you questioning your past choices and future options? Or maybe you've known you needed a change for a while and have now taken the first step to make it happen?
Being at the start of your therapy journey can be a scary, destabilising, and worrying place to be in, and you're looking for someone you feel comfortable with. Someone who creates an accepting space to say out loud those thoughts and feelings you can't share with anyone else, even those close to you. Someone who can offer guidance and new perspectives on what worries and upsets you. Someone to see your pain and help you hold it while you try to understand and learn from it.
Now for the 'About Me' part.
I offer a space, 50 minutes a week, where we can explore your choices and options; what got you here and what you could do about it. It will be a space of kindness and openness: no topic, thought, feeling, or emotion is off-limits. We will build this space around you and who you are; there will be no fixed method or series of steps.
On top of that, I offer you a human being to hear, see, acknowledge, validate, and support you as you go through this. A human being who balances the important heavy work with lightness, - shares in the joys of your successes, has interesting conversations with you, and understands the messiness of life.
In this space, I will listen, question, challenge, and reflect on what you bring in. All this, while keeping you at the centre of each session. No two sessions have to be the same. Some you may focus on something that just happened to you; others may be from your childhood. Sometimes we'll talk a lot, other times we'll spend it in contemplative silence. Sometimes we may do an experiential exercise, and other times you'll want to talk. In each session, I bring kindness, patience, support, and acceptance.
I have a special interest in Parts-work. This means I see you not as one thing, but as many different, shifting, contradictory parts - some you like, some you accept, and some you try to hide and ignore. I believe bringing these parts of yourself together can help.
I also have a special interest in helping people look at their relationships, sexuality, and self-esteem to find out what they truly want from their life, even if that isn't how they feel they "should" live it.
Who I have worked with
In the past, I have worked with a wide variety of people: members of the LGBTQ+ community, asylum seekers, retirees, neurodivergent individuals, students, and working professionals. People come to me with many different concerns, such as low self-confidence, anxiety, depression, loneliness, work stress, relationship difficulties, grief and bereavement, suicidal thoughts, and other issues that have impacted their lives.
Please, get in touch.
If you’re considering therapy, you’re welcome to get in touch to arrange a free initial chat, either online, over the phone, or in person in Clapham, to ask any questions. I am based in Camden and Clapham, London, and offer both in-person and online talk therapy.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a Registered Member of BACP.
As a BACP member, I commit to their ethical code of conduct and to practising to a professional standard (https://bit.ly/46b4TxM). It also gives you a place to raise a complaint if you feel you need to.
I have a PG Dip in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent's University, London.
I have trained to support clients in a therapeutic way and also understand various psychological and existential theories
I have volunteered at two specialist charities, Mosaic LGBTQ+ Young Persons' Trust and The Listening Place.
At Mosaic LGBTQ+ Young Persons' Trust, I supported young people through issues around their sexuality, gender identity, or experience being queer in a non-queer world.
At The Listening Place, I supported people who felt suicidal.
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.
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Fees
£100.00 per session
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