About me
Hello and thank you for stopping to read my profile.
It can feel really scary reaching out to a stranger for help and support. I hope on our initial phone call, I can make you feel safe, reassured and answer any questions you may have around counselling or how I work and support you.
Some people reach out for counselling when life becomes overwhelming or difficult. You may feel like you need some guidance or control back into your life.
Some people may come to counselling for reasons including a sense of despair, low self-esteem, low self confidence, suffer anxiety, depression, grief, loss, bereavement, feeling overwhelmed.
You may wonder how to manage life or how to move forward in situations that you may feel stuck in. You may have relationship issues, family issues or issues at work. Life can feel hard. I hope to help you to get your life balance back and feel more in control of your feelings.
People often ask me how I would describe counselling. My personal view is, I feel the counsellor is like a mirror, reflecting back to you, your thoughts and feeling you discuss. This helps you look at your thoughts, feeling and emotions, helping you to untangle your situation, which gives you the power and insight to put your life back on track.
Counselling can also help by giving your coping strategies or help you find ways to relax. It can help you cope with people and their actions and cope better in difficult situations. This can be very helpful with anxiety and day to day life problems. It can also give you courage to make difficult life changing situations.
I will offer you a safe non judgemental space to open up and talk about the difficulties you may be experiencing. I will support you on your journey to a happier way of managing your feelings and day to day life experiences.
If you suffer from low self esteem and want to feel more confident, I will help you to explore why you feel so low and help you to discover what is stopping you feel your best version of yourself.
Every journey is different, unique and individual. Each session may vary for you. Sometimes it is hard to find the words and we may look more creatively if you feel blocked or struggle to talk about your feelings as sometimes you can feel too overwhelmed to speak.
Some sessions you may feel it goes so quickly and there’s still so much to say. Some sessions might be difficult as you sit with some of life's difficulties. It does get easier and you will be able to find the words. Being honest with how you feel will help you heal and find a way forward.
Each session is 50 minutes of a safe space that safely helps and supports your thoughts and feelings. These may include your anxiety, depression, panic attacks, trauma, low self esteem, grief/ loss/ bereavement, relationship and family difficulties/abuse and breakups, feeling lost and wanting to find a sense of purpose and direction in your life
For those of you who may feel daunted by counselling, please feel rest assured, it is safe and a really empowering experience. It can be painful at first when you are sitting with feelings you’ve not wanted to sit with, but you will move through this feeling, into a better space of understanding your thoughts and feelings or you may be able to accept and move forward out of your current feelings and situations.
Counselling can be a relief as you let out all your stored thoughts, feelings and emotions.
We all have the power to heal ourselves from within, and a counsellor will guide you to find your own power to manage yourself and the situations around you.
I am glad you are considering counselling, and I look forward to meeting you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Registered Member MBACP
- Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling
- Hospice Bereavement Training
- Secondary School Counsellor
- Healthcare Support Worker
I have experience working with adults and teenagers.
I use my skills to determine what works best for each individual person I see.
I am empathetic non judgmental and offer you a safe space to talk and to be listened too.
I can use talking / drawing therapy for clients who struggle to find the words to express their thoughts and feelings if they feel comfortable to do so.
It is important you feel comfortable with the counsellor you choose as you are sharing sensitive thoughts and feelings therefore you need to find a counsellor you feel safe to open up with.
So I would like to tell you a little about me and my experience to give you a sense of whether you feel safe enough to work with me, as this is very important for you.
I am a mum of grown up children and a nan. My background has mainly been nursing. I have worked in many settings including Mental health, Psychiatric, forensic, palliative (Hospice nursing and as a bereavement counsellor), general and surgical nursing, as well as elderly care and Aromatherapy.
I also worked in a secondary school as a school counsellor for eight years.
I work privately with adults covering lots of emotions and life traumas. These can be coping with bereavement including death, divorce and changes of environment. Low self esteem, anxiety, feeling a loss of direction or needing to be listened to and heard.
I have been a qualified counsellor for 14 years
I am a humanistic counsellor, which means I work with each client individually and sessions may vary week to week. Some people need a place to download and be listened too, while other clients want coping strategies to help them manage specific issues/ thoughts and feelings. Other clients may want to draw or use gestalt methods or CBT.
For those of you reading my profile who want to know the types of counselling that may come into your therapy are; Carl Rogers, which is person centred. Gestalt (more creative) and Jung
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
£50.00 per session
Additional information
I offer face to face appointments, what's app video appointments or telephone appointments.
Please call or email me for an appointment or for any questions about counselling and how I work.
Once I receive an email enquiry from you, I will arrange a time for me to call you. This will be a maximum of 15 minutes to give you an idea of how I work a chance for you to ask any questions you may have. It will give you a chance to see if you feel comfortable with me.
It is so important that you choose a counsellor you feel you can trust and connect with. This is why I offer this introduction before a session.
When I work
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Further information
I work online and in Larkfield.
Parking is generally easy.
I work individually with each person as we all think and feel and process our thoughts differently. Some people express their feelings easily, while others may need prompts through Art or worksheets.
Carl Rogers believed... All humans were capable of becoming a whole person through self discovery. The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
The Gestalt theory emphasises that the whole of anything is greater than its parts.
