About me
Welcome to my profile. I offer integrative online talking therapy to explore your life situations and difficulties. Are you seeking clarity, motivation and purpose? I have over 15 years experience helping adults with; anxiety, improving confidence, self-doubt, sexuality, low self-esteem, career, money and life changes as well as what might be holding you back or keeping you stuck.
I also provide a number of effective and easy to use tools and exercises for you to use between sessions and to support yourself whenever you need it. These are invaluable for shifting negative thinking, transforming self-doubt and healing the wounded inner child. I also work with dreams as this helps us go deeper and offers a fun and creative way to explore what is really going on for you.
To get a better sense of how I might be able to help drop me a line to arrange a free call. Sessions are either online or in person in SE19.
Before training to be a Psychotherapist I worked for many years as a freelance designer. I chose to change direction to follow a passion for inner work and because I found talking therapy to be the most effective way to address my own challenges and difficulties.
Areas I often work with include;
- Anxiety, fear and overwhelm
- Stress and self-doubt
- Insomnia
- Social anxiety and self-consciousness
- Difficult families
- LGBTQ+ issues
- Low self-esteem
- Family narcissism, gaslighting and scapegoating
- Sex and sexuality
- Dream work
- Creativity and imagination
- Recovering from trauma
- Developing confidence
- Navigating open relationships
- Broken family relationships
What others say;
“Therapy with Neil has helped me find some order during a very chaotic and difficult period in my life. Simply saying the words helped shine some light but the real benefit for me was putting structure to my thoughts and feelings. Being in an environment without an agenda and without judgment helped me better understand myself.” May 2021.
“Neil’s helped me understand so much about myself, particularly how my family set up and past experiences have shaped the person I am and how I’ve been feeling about myself. He’s helped me challenge my own beliefs resulting in a transformation in my self-esteem. I’m the most confident version of myself to date.” June 2024
To find out more or to arrange an initial session please drop me a line on 07958 718139 or send me an email.
Training, qualifications & experience
Accreditations
- UKCP
- MBACP (Registered)
Qualifications
- Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy - CCPE
- MA degree - Psychotherapy and Counselling - Northampton University
- Certificate in Advanced Dream Work
- Post-grad accredited Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy - CCPE
- Certificate in Counselling and Hypnotherapy - Regents College
- BA Degree in Design - Manchester Metropolitan University
Other counselling experience
The Samaritans / NHS counselling service / GMI counselling for gay men / The Maudsley clinical psychiatric training / Fresh Start low-cost counselling
Other relevant experience
Advanced dreamwork DRI / Social Dreaming GLF / EcoPsychology Revision / Workshop facilitator - Social Dreaming, Self-Doubt and Social Anxiety / Vipassana meditation / Work with Hyperhidrosis
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Relationship problems - Marriage and partnership counselling - Civil partnerships - Anxiety, Fear - Panic attacks - Social anxiety - Social phobia - Dreams - LGBT issues - Risky sexual behaviour, Shame, Self-doubt, Internalised homophobia, Grief, Self-hatred, Feeling low and lacking energy - M.E - Insomnia - Stress - Money and finance anxiety - Debt - Jealousy and envy - Worry - Anger - Rage - Drugs - Alcohol - Sex - Sexuality - Sexual compulsion - Sex addiction - Self-harming through sex - Creativity - Gay men issues - Gay women/Lesbian issues - Coming out - Homophobia - Creative blocks - Fear about the future - Work related anxiety - Exam stress - Sibling rivalry - Affairs and betrayal - Poor self image - Identity crisis - Adoption - Abortion - Health and illness - Affairs and betrayals - Career change - Disputes - Conflict - Armed forces - Trauma - Loneliness - Isolation - Divorce - Separation - Marriage
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £140.00
Additional information
Individuals: £95 (50 minute session)
Individuals: £50 (25 minute session)
Couples: £140 (50 minute session)
Online
The same fee applies for online and phone sessions.
Payment Method
Fees are paid via bank transfer.
When I work
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Further information
My practice is both online and in person.
My practice covers various areas in South London - Crystal Palace, Croydon, Sydenham, Beckenham, Bromley, Forrest Hill, Anerley, South Norwood, West Norwood, Penge, Streatham, Thornton Heath, Dulwich, Camberwell, Brixton, Tooting, Lambeth, Southwark, W1, W2, WC1, WC2, SW1, EC1, EC2, EC3, EC4, NW1, N1, E11, SE1, SE19, SE20, SE17, SE16, SE15, SE17, SW4
Working online means I also provide therapy for clients throughout Europe and Asia. All online therapy takes place in the UK where I am UKCP and BACP registered.
LGBTQ+ and heterosexual
My interest is in helping adults form their own rules and ideas about relationships and what it means to be Gay, Queer or straight. Understanding what rules you might be following that don't align with how you are or how you'd most like to live - and what the alternatives might be. Sexual shame is something I often work with and helping my clients to feel more confident and at ease with this part of themselves and their self expression.
Art and creativity
I believe that everything in life is creative including our thoughts and feelings - good or bad. We are conditioned to believe we are either creative or we aren't when actually being alive is a creative act in itself. You don't have to be artistic to be creative. The way we all think is a way of us using our imagination. So we can learn to use our imagination in more productive ways and therefore improve our thinking.
As a self-taught artist I studied Graphic Design and later 3D Designer in the 1980s at Manchester Metropolitan University and at RMIT in Australia. Then, in the early 90s I moved to London to pursue a career as an Interior and Exhibition Designer & in the 2000s retrained as a Transpersonal and Existential Psychotherapist.
I use creativity in different ways depending on what motivates or inspires you. This might be through music, TV, film, books, dreams, photography and writing.
