This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am a registered UKCP psychotherapist with my own practice based in Hassocks, near Brighton, Sussex. I also undertake both psychotherapy and coaching work in London.
I provide a range of therapeutic services to individuals, couples and organizations in the Hassocks, Brighton and surrounding areas in London and across the UK. This includes individual and couples therapy and personal and developmental coaching. I work face to face and online.
As a psychotherapist, my approach is primarily existential. This approach encourages us to be realistic about both our strengths and our limitations which in turn help us to identify our possibilities. By re-examining our assumptions about ourselves, others and the world we live in, we create the possibility of seeing new opportunities for meaningful living which may well have been obscured, denied or not envisaged. An Existential approach does not eliminate anxiety but encourages us to engage with it with courage and compassion.
Leading a more meaningful life is the intention of this approach. It is about accepting that life and work involves pleasure and pain, sadness and joy, success and failure, good and bad. We all live in the tension of these paradoxes everyday but our response is often like a magnetic pull towards one end of those polarities and where we seek to eradicate or deny any value or influence of the other. Recognising that both ends of these life magnets have something to offer us in our challenges of life is the goal of this approach, to find a way through our dilemmas by accepting both our limitations and our possibilities, by working with the stuff in our lives we like and the stuff in our lives that we run away from.
Training, qualifications & experience
MA Psychotherapy and Counselling - Regents College: December 2004
Adv. Diploma Existential Psychotherapy - Regent's College: December 2006
Registered with UKCP since 2007
Private practice since 2007
Voluntary student counsellor at Brighton Institute of Modern Music: 2003-2008
Volunteer at CRUSE Bereavement Support and the Samaritans
Personal and executive coach since 2001. Diploma in Ontological Coaching 2009
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60 per session in Hassocks
£75 per session in London
I also undertake telephone work, SKYPE and zoom sessions
When I work
Available Monday to Friday, day times, and evening on Mondays and Fridays. Plus some Saturdays.
