About me
Hey, I’m Mike. I’m a kind, open minded and approachable person. I’m here to offer a space where you can be supported, talk openly, and feel understood.
I bring a person-centred approach rooted in empathy, clarity, and respect for each individuals’ journey. I excel at creating a calm, caring, non-judgemental space that cultivates a strong therapeutic relationship with clients.
Currently I am offering online sessions via Zoom, and these sessions will be 50 minutes long. I typically work with a planned amount of sessions with a client of between 6 to 12 sessions. This is verbally agreed during our free-of-cost initial chat. This number of sessions can be extended if we both feel it is appropriate when nearing the time.
If something you’ve read here today resonates, I hope you get in touch, and we can have an initial chat. You don’t have to figure things out alone.
Training, qualifications & experience
I bring specialist insight into gambling and gaming related challenges, informed by both my clinical work and seven years of experience engaging with young people in the amateur esports scene. This background has proven invaluable in building rapport with my youngest clients already. My knowledge of how companies and the culture in online gaming encourages and facilitates gambling or obsessive playing massively helped in forming that trust, and understanding that is vital in a therapeutic relationship.
However, my practice is not limited to gaming, gambling, or addiction. I work with a wide variety of concerns, including:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Grief
- Identity struggles
- Life transitions
- Relationship difficulties
- Self esteem
- Stress
- Trauma
- Workplace pressure
- And more.
I am an accredited BACP-registered practitioner with an MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
My clinical experience includes over 100 hours of counselling at CGL (Change, Grow, Live) Halton in Runcorn, where I supported individuals navigating addiction, trauma, and recovery. Working alongside teams in opioids, criminal justice, and family wellbeing, I independently managed complex caseloads, with excellent supervisory support. I received consistently positive feedback from clients, managers, and keyworkers for my compassionate and grounded approach.
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
Fees
£45.00 per session
Additional information
I offer an initial 30 minute session to everyone free of charge, to have an informal chat to get to know each other a little. This will hopefully help figure out if I'm the counsellor for you, and will provide opportunity to talk about any questions or concerns about future counselling sessions.
Sessions will be £45.00 per time.
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