About me
Hi and welcome to my profile; I’m glad that you’re here and that you’re choosing to read more about how we could work together.
Research suggests that the quality of the relationship between client and therapist is the best predictor of beneficial therapeutic outcomes (Lambert, 2013). Consequently, both my profile is written, and my video recorded, to provide you with a sense of who I am and how I work. Therefore, if what I express resonates with you, it bodes well for you achieving what you want in therapy, and I’d encourage you to contact me via the ‘Email me’ button above. You are most welcome to also use the same button to ask me any preliminary questions you may have.
How I work
Under ‘Areas of counselling I deal with’ below, you will find a list of the extensive challenges I have effectively supported clients to address. Also below, under ‘Training, qualifications & experience’, I have detailed some of my academic and professional pursuits which have enabled me to help clients with those challenges.
Here, I both refer to clients’ feedback, and my own perceptions, to describe three practices which are integral to how I work:
Welcoming the full range of human emotions and experience
My doctoral research explored how clients felt their therapists’ humour contributed to their working relationship (Glover, 2025). Whilst I would not suggest that therapy is always a laugh, I agree with George Bernard Shaw (2018, p.40) who writes that ‘Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh’. This sentiment, and my research, are symbolic of the value of I place upon inviting all your emotions and experience into our work together.
Inviting conversations which might be precluded from other arenas
Cultural norms can unfortunately discourage the discussion of particular, and often very important, topics; I perceive therapy is an environment which can challenge such restrictions. So, let’s talk about sex, death, money, and so-called socially unacceptable opinions. My position is, ‘If you can’t talk about “taboo subjects” in therapy, where can you talk about them?!’
Cultivating a unique connection between us
Whilst there are significant evolutionary arguments which suggest that humans gravitate towards connection (Fonagy et al., 2004), what connection means is unique to each individual. Thus, my intention is to support the development of a relationship between us that supports you to engage in therapy in a way which is most beneficial to your aims. With this principle in mind, I facilitate a range of ways in which we can work together (see ‘What I am offering’ below).
What I am offering
I facilitate one-to-one 60-minute sessions with adults, online via Zoom; these may be regular sessions, or ‘single-session therapy’ as I’ve outlined below.
Regular sessions
Regular sessions begin with meeting for an initial session, when we may talk about what has brought you to contact me, however you may not know and that’s okay. There is no commitment made by attending an initial session, and if you chose to meet with me again there is no obligation to commit to a minimum or maximum number of sessions, or to meet with a specific frequency. I am both trained, and have extensive experience, in facilitating short- and long- term work, where the former can commonly describe six sessions, and the latter can include client/therapist relationships that last many, many years.
Single-session therapy (SST)
Single-session therapy (SST) is an appointment that both clients and therapists attend understanding that one session may be enough, whilst also knowing that further support is available. This therapeutic format can be viewed as akin to the intermittent contact many patients have with their general practitioner (GP) where together they focus upon a specific problem (Dryden, 2024). SST can be useful for a wide variety of challenges, including where individuals wish to: solve a problem or get unstuck; increase their understanding of an issue; be heard and understood and to express how they feel (Dryden, 2024). Additionally, SST may be particularly appealing for people who have limited time or funds available to commit to regular sessions, or for those who are on a waiting list for other services but would benefit from therapeutic support in the interim (Dryden, 2024).
Both these types of sessions can be organised by clicking the ‘Email me’ button above.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy by Professional Studies (DCPsych) validated by the Metanoia Institute and Middlesex University (pending*)
- Clinical Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy validated by the Metanoia Institute and Middlesex University
- Foundation Degree Arts (FdA) Integrative Counselling validated by the University of Worcester (also receiving an Academic Scholarship Award)
- Bachelors in Science (BSc) Psychology validated by the University of Plymouth (First Class Pass; also achieving Best Overall Performance Stage One)
- The Primary Certificate in Single-Session Therapy validated by Professor Windy Dryden and Temenos
- Certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming from Catalyst Training, validated by the Association for NLP
- Preparing To Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTTLS), validated by City and Guilds
- PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner Project Management, validated by the APM Group
- Management (level five) and Leadership and Management (level three), both validated by the Institute of Leadership and Management
- Certificate in Mental Health Work (level two), validated by City and Guilds
Drugs Awareness (level two), validated by City and Guilds.
*I have completed the training and submitted my doctoral research dissertation; I am currently preparing to sit my oral exam which will award me the title of ‘Counselling Psychologist’.
Training
In addition to these assessed and validated qualifications, I am passionate about my Continued Professional Development (CPD) and regularly participate in further training and seminars. This enables me to constantly learn new skills and be informed of new research which can be offered to you where it may be appropriate and beneficial. These include:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
- Solution Focussed Conversations
- Motivational Interviewing
- Working With Personality Disorders
- Applied Suicide Prevention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Harassment and Bullying
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Learning Disabilities and Mental Health
- Equality and Diversity
- Mental Capacity Act
- Clinical Assessments
- Working with Fetish, BDSM, and Kink Practices
- Providing Therapy Online
- Safeguarding Adults, Safeguarding Children, and Safeguarding Domestic Abuse
- Supervising Learners in Practice.
To complement my formal learning and CPD, I engage in weekly personal therapy and fortnightly supervision. Personal therapy enables me to remain well connected to the experience of being a client. Supervision enables you to benefit from my best clinical practice.
Experience
For nearly 25 years, I’ve been honoured to support people through some of the most difficult times in their lives. As part of that, I’ve also been able to contribute to some amazing transitions too. These have been in a variety of settings, including charities, not-for-profit organisations, and NHS in-patient and community psychiatric services.
Thanks for reading, and please do contact me via the ‘Email me’ button above, if you feel I can help.
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 UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. 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
£65.00 - £85.00
Additional information
Regular sessions are 60 minutes in duration and charged at £65.
Single-session therapy appointments are 60 minutes in duration and are charged at £85.
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Further information
Therapists can be educated in a variety of approaches; these help orientate their practice to help the clients they’re working with. My approach can be formally described as ‘relational and integrative, with a humanistic foundation’; please do ask if you would like to understand more about how my approach could be specifically applied in our work together.
As a graduate member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), I work within the Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions and the Professional Conduct Procedure, and as a graduate member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), I work within the Code of Ethics and Professional Practice. As a student member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) I work within the Code of Ethics and Conduct.
I hold an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
References
Dryden, W. (2024). Single-session therapy (SST): 100 key points and techniques. (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E.L, & Target, M. (2004). Affect regulation, mentalization and the development of the self. Routledge.
Glover, M. (2025). Therapists navigating the unique, inescapable, and rarely acknowledged, knife-edge; clients’ perspectives of how therapists’ humour contributes to the relational dynamics between clients and therapists in adult dyadic therapy. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Middlesex University.
Lambert, M. J., & Ogles, B. M. (2004). The efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy. In M. J. Lambert (Ed.), Begin and Garfield’s handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change (5th ed., pp. 139–193). Wiley.
Shaw, G. B. (2018). The doctor’s dilemma. The Floating Press.
