About me
Based in Nottingham working on-line primarily as a psychotherapist, also with some face to face availability at the moment. I work to provide a warm, accepting environment where you'll be supported in dealing with what you bring to the therapy. An confidential, authentic and secure atmosphere for therapy allows the opportunity to explore, understand and work towards your therapeutic goals, with the passion and humour I bring for this work.
Choosing to start therapy can be a challenge. Dealing with the "difficult stuff" is something we are all capable of avoiding. It needs to feel safe enough to talk about what can feel the most vulnerable, and at times hardest to put into words. This is my role, to create the atmosphere where there's trust in; not being judged, found too much, or not enough, being heard and seen, and valued.
How you see, feel and experience yourself is the expert opinion and that matters. Matters to me, and matters in how you relate to yourself. It can be all too often that events from the past, distant or recent, impact your life right now. The result might be anxiety, depression, anger, a sense of shame or hurt. These feelings matter and are part of making the choices that shape our lives.
Therapy is about just that, understanding and perhaps regaining power in relation to choices, or in our responses to choices that were made for us or we made and were our best at that time but may no longer be useful. Working at your pace, I aim to offer support so fresh ways of seeing yourself, options and choices become available.
With a range of therapeutic styles integrated in the way I work, primarily with EMDR and including Humanistic Person-Centred, Existential, DBT informed therapy, Mindfulness and others I aim to create a therapy with and for you to support your needs and wants from therapy.
Email is the most effective way to get in touch with me.
Training, qualifications & experience
- 2019-2020 Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
- 2016 Diploma in Clinical Supervision
- 2008-2013 PG Dip in Humanistic Person-Centred Psychotherapy
- 2006 Spectrum One Year Continuation Course in Psychotherapy
- 2005 Spectrum One Year Course in Psychotherapy
- 2004 British Association of Anger Management - Anger Management Consultant Certificate
- 2003 British Association of Anger Management - Anger Management Trainer Certificate
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.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Anger and Stress Management
- Experiential Group Work
- Psychoeducational Group Work
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 - £65.00
Additional information
My fee of £65/session for face to face and £55/session for on-line sessions are usually paid by bank transfer in advance of meeting.
Further information
First Contact:
Email or call and we can speak to arrange an initial meeting. An initial meeting will be for both you and I to get an idea if and how we could work together. We would also talk about how often we might meet and the few other practicalities for starting the process. The initial consultation is free.
Ongoing Reviews:
I find it valuable to regularly review where we are in the course of the work, although this is also an on-going process. Taking a short amount of time to review the work helps to make sure we keep focussed on your therapeutic goals.
Finishing:
Of course any client is free to finish at any time. It has proven to be valuable to give some notice to the completion of our work together, I hope that clients will neither feel cheated because they were pushed out before feeling ready nor held onto beyond the goals that they've set.
Therapeutic Style:
I've trained on an on going basis since 2003 and I blend a number of styles of work, based on both training and style requirement for where I've worked. This means I can work in a brief or more solution focussed manner and also with clients on a longer term basis with more complex or challenging areas of work that need attending to. A down to earth, warm and even humorous atmosphere helps to create an effective space to work in.
Training and History:
I practised initially providing Anger Management training for the British Association of Anger Management. Once I'd completed that specific training and started working for BAAM I then starting training with Spectrum, a Humanistic Integrative Experiential centre in London to continue extending my therapeutic practice. The Anger Management courses proved successful in Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centres where I then moved on to practice, whilst continuing broader therapeutic training. Around 2006 I moved from London to the East Midlands and started a training at Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute for a Post Graduate qualification and towards accreditation by UKCP which I completed in 2013. In early 2017 I started working as Recovery Lead and Therapist at the Priory Hospital in Nottingham, an acute mental health unit, implementing a Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) programme. The trauma informed and trauma focussed aspects of my work have continued to evolve with the addition of EMDR over the last five years that's now a major aspect of my practice which I continue to enhance with additional training, consultation and practice. My work has also over the last few years included study, reading and training on neurodiversity and the impacts of that on mental health and executive functioning, where my own later aged AD(H)D diagnosis explained a great deal in terms of the difficulties of academic deadlines and much beyond that too.
