About me
The way I work is to allow you to bring your whole self which can take time as we build trust and the feeling of safety within our therapeutic relationship. It can be quite challenging if you are not used to talking about your emotions but my job is to help you bring them out into the open where we can understand your processes including certain behaviours, thought patterns, and feelings. Once this process has started, together we can work through some of the difficulties and it is by being with them and not avoiding them, that is the key to change. Of course this process is never an easy one, the relationship with the self is the most difficult but, a commitment to and trust in the process can lead to life changing transformations. The investment of time, effort and cost is part of trusting and valuing the process that has the potential to you living a better life.
Training, qualifications & experience
Despite all the advancements we have made as human beings, its seems that we still have not learned how to develop our emotional language.
So many people were never able to fully express all of their emotions during their early years or as young adults - anger is certainly not accepted by society and parents do not always know how to deal with it so it is forced inward, where it can fester.
You learn to survive in the world not always being who you really are. Maybe you are fearful about being accepted as your true self, judged or ridiculed, maybe you feel shame and even some guilt. There maybe times when you do not like yourself and this will affect your interactions with others. Or maybe you are experiencing something that you are unable to share with others.
Whatever emotions that are not being expressed and are left inside can cause self doubt or harm which may leave you feeling depressed and anxious, you may feel very alone and isolated.
It can be very confusing to understand what is going on for you and why you do not feel comfortable within yourself.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
