About me
Welcome, I am May, a counsellor who is dedicated to helping you navigate the complexities life can bring. Using evidence-based approaches, compassion and empathy, we can focus on stress, abuse, family issues, bereavement, depression and any other aspects of your life that may be causing you distress, panic attacks or anxiety.
My goal is to provide you with a safe and supportive space where you can achieve personal growth and therapeutic work. By developing a healthy relationship between us, the goal is that you can then replicate this with other family members, friends and even with yourself. If you are struggling with low self esteem or low self confidence then this relationship can benefit you to begin to treat yourself with more compassion and kindness. I offer person-centred counselling drawing from other modalities when needed, such as CBT.
My specialist areas include working with trauma, neurodivergent clients, ADHD and Autism, and I am even completing a Master's Degree focusing on ASD in women, and the impacts of family estrangement. I have recently completed several trauma and C/PTSD CPD trainings to enhance my work in this area.
I have experience working with psychosis, addiction, alcoholism, personality disorders such as BPD, and bipolar disorder.
I also work with other therapists, and students, and offer a student reduced rate of £25. I thoroughly enjoy working with therapists, and supporting students with their personal therapy hours.
Whether you want to seek support because you are feeling sad or lonely and need someone to talk to, or for a specific issue, please feel free to reach out.
I offer sessions weekly and fortnightly, with some clients choosing to move to a monthly check-in to help facilitate a supported ending. Counselling is so individual, and I cannot tell you how long you would need sessions for, but I do offer long-term work and short-term work.
I am registered with several different private healthcare insurance companies, please get in touch to see if I can work with your insurance company.
I do work through various different platforms, offering face to face, video call, phone call and messaging.
When you contact me, we can have a discussion about your needs, and then book in a short video call to discuss the specifics of working together, such as timings, frequency and the counselling agreement.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
- MA Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice (ongoing)
- Level 5 Therapeutic Counselling
- Level 4 Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Level 2 CPCAB Counselling Studies
Training/ CPD:
- Trauma and PTSD CPD
- Safeguarding Level 2
- Learning Disability Level 2
- Autism Training
- IDAS Domestic Abuse Basic Awareness
- IDAS Sexual Violence Basic Awareness
- Diversity Awareness
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Safeguarding Adults and Children Level 1
- Safeguarding Adults and Children Level 2
- Suicide Prevention Awareness
- Suicide Prevention Risk Awareness and Management
- Oliver McGowan Training
- Domestic Abuse - CPD
- Self Injury - CPD
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.
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
Fees
£25.00 - £50.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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