About me
Hello. I offer a confidential, non-judgemental and respectful space for you to talk about you and feel what you’re feeling. 50 minutes. Weekly.
A large part of our work will be building a space where those two things feel possible. Safety is a felt experience and together we can explore what this means for you. It may be useful for us to explore events in your history and relationships in your childhood to better understand what you are feeling and experiencing in your present.
My humanistic integrative training means I draw from various therapeutic schools of thought and work to a relational model. In practice, what this means is that paramount to our work is creating a relationship which feels safe. I believe the foundations to this are built through the offering of empathy and respect with honesty and integrity.
I am trauma-informed and continue my training in how trauma shows up in our minds and body and how to work with it. Drawing from modalities such as Gestalt, Transactional Analysis and Polyvagal Theory, the therapeutic space can become an environment from which we can begin a journey towards a better understanding of the ways you think, feel and behave, as well as, perhaps, the way you haven’t been able to think, feel or do.
This is collaborative and non-linear work. Always, we will be in contact with the present. Always, I will meet you as another human being in this shared space together. We will look at what is coming up for you in the here and now, in your emotions and body, and how this impacts you and your relationships. If there is need for change, where is that change possible? What is the impact of change? What is the impact of stasis?
For me, therapy is not about fixing. It’s about harnessing enough self-awareness that we are able to liberate ourselves from thoughts and feelings that feel beyond our conscious choice. It is also about being able to let go of that which we cannot or decide we do not wish to change. It is about giving space for thoughts and feelings we have not had the freedom to feel or name. It is also about being met with compassion so that we can learn to meet our whole selves with that same compassion.
We are relational beings. Our personalities are shaped in relation to others. I believe we heal in relation to one another too.
Training, qualifications & experience
Advanced Diploma in Integrative Humanistic Counselling
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
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I hold four spaces for low-cost therapy for those who are unemployed or on low income. Please contact me for more information. If I have no availability, I can add you to a waiting list.
When I work
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Further information
I offer a free intro call to discuss, in brief, your expectations of therapy and what brings you here. I am happy to work with an open-ended frame or in blocks (e.g 20 sessions) where we can assess as we near the end of a block if you would like to extend. We can decide this before we begin our work together.
