About me
I am an Accredited Counsellor and my aim is to offer a confidential, non-judgemental space to explore your emotional challenges with you. With bringing empathy and compassion, this can help you with expressing feelings and trying to make sense about what your deeper challenges are.
I will be able to help you to manage challenges in life, such as anxiety, depression, stress, health issues, bereavement and relationship difficulties. As part of my work, I create a therapeutic relationship between us, detecting what your needs are and if you wish to, consider making changes in your life. Your autonomy, your overall wellbeing mentally and physically.
I work an integrative approach and this allows me to work with various models. This ensures the work is tailored for an individual and wellbeing is paramount throughout any work.
Whether you are dealing with a main focus, something you would like supported with or a general sense and feeling something is not quite right, I can help you to unravel the problem, find the root causes, where they have stemmed from and consider how to move forward.
This is an approach looking at underlying patterns of behaviour. The focus may involve exploring past experiences in life. This maybe influencing your beliefs and thoughts, therefore affecting relationships in the here and now.
During our work I will use techniques with active learning, empathy and questioning to help you to feel heard, gain clarity and together find those solutions. Space to talk, to feel less alone and supported throughout your therapy journey.
If you feel you are ready to begin your journey, understanding more about 'you' and hear your 'own voice', I'd invite you to contact me for any questions about how I work and how I can help you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP)
I am qualified in the following:
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, CPCAB
- Level 3 Certificate in Counselling, CPCAB
- Level 2 Certificate in Counselling, CPCAB
- Certificate of Proficiency BACP
- Expertise and trained working with couples
- Expertise and trained working with Bereavement and Loss
- Level 2 Award in Understanding Substance Misuse, CPCAB
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
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Type of sessions:
Individual Session £60 - 50 mins
Couple Work Session £80 - 1hr
Face to Face
Online
Phone
Weekdays ; Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Currently available; Saturday morning / afternoon
Location
Bromley BR1
Bromley BR2
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Further information
Expertise;
I can offer some space to explore and discuss with you about suggestions to move forward :
- FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS: Communication skills.
- LONG TERM ILL HEALTH: Dramatic change of life and the affect within a family.
- FINANCIAL PRESSURE: Stress, worries and struggling with how to cope.
- TRAUMA: Coping mechanisms to deal with the trauma.
- BEREAVEMENT : Loss of your loved one, the impact and the changes within your life.
- THEORY WORK: Understand further learning about you and why you react in certain ways
- COUPLES WORK; Space to work out what the issues are and moving forward
COUPLE THERAPY WORK:
- COUPLES: At times a challenging relationship with a partner can be the hardest thing but at the beginning of the relationship you may have been able to connect with one another with ease, so why did it change? My role would be to help you both to understand why changes happen in a relationship and to find a way to get back to the relationship you both wish for. :
- IDENTIFYING PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR; Recognising negative behaviours and understanding the roots
- REFRAMING THE ISSUE; Not blaming one person, viewing the relationship as the client
- DEVELOPING SKILLS; Learn to negotiate, compromise, communication needs
- HEALING WOUNDS: Safe place to address trust issues infidelity, emotional issues explored
The benefits in therapy work;
- Hearing your 'own voice'
- Considering making some changes within your life
- Feeling empowered
- Recognising repeated patterns of behaviour and making changes
- Learning new coping mechanisms within your life
- Developing self awareness
- Finding a path of happiness
- Understand the dynamics within a family
- Self worth
- Space to reflect about self esteem
- Exploring identity
What does integrative counselling means ?
An integrative way of working means I can blend different theories. This allows my therapy work to be flexible and adaptable depending on my clients needs throughout the work. I bring together several therapy models including person-centred therapy, psychodynamic therapy and CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy).
What can counselling help with?
Counselling can help with a range of issues including:
- Anxiety and anxiety disorders
- Attachments
- Relationships
- Communication for couples
- Identity issue
- Bereavement and loss
- Anger / Jealousy / loneliness / guilt / shame
- Experience of trauma
- Suicide thoughts / attempts
- Emotional and psychological issues
- Healing emotionally after trauma experiences in the past
- Confidence / self worth
Self worth is the intrinsic belief in one's own value, independent of external achievements or validation, impacting confidence and emotional health. Building self-worth focus, this involves practising self compassion. recognising inherit value and challenging negative self perceptions to enhance overall wellbeing
I work with private clients, one to one and couples work. I also work in a Bereavement Agency Organisation.
