This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Counselling is a relationship that can provide you with the right environment to enable you to gain understanding and acceptance of who you are or how you relate to others. It's my practice to give those seeking my support a safe, non-judgemental space to do just this. Whether you have depression or anxiety; have experienced loss, isolation or feel a lack of meaning or even feel a sense of hopelessness. We will work together to help you to manage your difficulties and help build your resilience so that you may better face future challenges or difficulties.
I will work with you in a mainly person-centred way to help you work through the issues that bring you to counselling. We may look at strategies and coping mechanisms, or look at options to help you make decisions about your life. But most importantly being heard and understood is the most effective tool used in counselling.
Just imagine what it would be like to say what you thought or felt without fear of being judged whilst being accepted for who you are. My goal as a counsellor is to ensure you feel heard and to work alongside you.
If you feel that you may want us to work together, you can contact me for a free, initial chat either by phone, email or WhatsApp where we can establish what you want to get from counselling. If you are happy to arrange an appointment, this can usually be scheduled within the week. Appointments are 50 minutes in duration.
There is no minimum number of sessions or limit to sessions. Once a first appointment is arranged I will email you my 'way of working' which details my policy on confidentiality, how I store your data, my complaints procedure and everything you need to know about your appointment sessions.
If you have an questions, please do let me know.
Training, qualifications & experience
- FdSc Integrative Counselling
- BSc (Hons) Open
- MBACP Registered Member BACP
- CPCAB Counselling Skills
- Mental Health First Aid Training and ASIST Suicide Awareness Training
- Experience of working with people who have suicidal ideation and self-harm
- Currently working within the Talking Therapies service offering short term counselling support for adults referred by their GP
- Most recent CPD carried out in LGBTQIA+ Awareness and Affirmative Therapy, Recognising Coercive Control
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
£40.00 per session
Additional information
The fee is £40 for a 50 minute session payable by bank transfer before sessions.
When I work
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Further information
I work with individuals over 18 only. Sessions are offered online, telephone or 'walk and talk' counselling (Moira, Co Down only)
