About me
I am a fully qualified psychotherapist offering a safe, calm and confidential space for you to talk.
I have many years experience working with people around a wide range of issues including anxiety/panic attacks, depression/feeling sad, relationship and family difficulties, trauma, loss and bereavement, abuse, sexual abuse including non-recent sexual abuse, life transitions, work stress, low self esteem, lack of confidence and struggles with identity and sense of self.
I also have an interest in the emotional challenges of pregnancy, fertility, infant loss, birth trauma and parenthood.
As a psychodynamic psychotherapist my approach is to work with you to explore the underlying causes of your current difficulties.
As adults we can often unconsciously continue to repeat negative patterns of being and relating, rooted in childhood and early life experience.
By gaining an awareness and understanding of this in therapy we can develop the capacity to relate to ourselves and our personal narratives in a more reflective yet active way, leading to fresh insight, self-acceptance, self-compassion and the possibility of lasting, positive change and transformation.
I offer open-ended therapy arrangements allowing time for issues to surface and be worked on in depth.
I also offer time-limited therapy arrangements between 12 - 16 sessions if you are wanting to work with a specific focus.
As a beginning, I usually suggest meeting for an initial consultation.
Lasting just under an hour, the initial consultation is a space for you to tell me about yourself and what is making you think about therapy now. It is often helpful if you can talk a little about your childhood and family life, your experience of any previous therapy and what you are hoping to gain from therapy now.
It is an opportunity to ask questions and have an experience of sitting and talking with me and to see if you would be comfortable doing that on a regular basis going forward.
After the initial consultation, I usually suggest our meeting for a follow-up session in the following week, allowing space for you to reflect on our time together and for me to think about what might be helpful for you in terms of your therapeutic needs.
At a follow-up appointment I can talk about how I work and what a therapy arrangement between us might look like in terms of a fee, breaks, etc.
If you decide you would like to take up therapy with me, we would agree a mutually convenient ongoing time for our session, meeting in that time every week and for 50 minutes.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have completed a rigorous 5 year professional training at one of the leading academic and clinical institutions for psychotherapy in the UK and hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy accredited by Roehampton University and am committed to ongoing professional development.
I have been working in private practice now for over 12 years and prior to this held roles as an honorary Clinical Assessor and specialist Time-Limited Clinician in the charitable sector.
I work with people from a diverse range of backgrounds in terms of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity/culture, religious belief and none, physical abilities and disabilities.
I am an Accredited member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) and the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC) and work within, promote and uphold the strict ethical standards of these organisations.
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.
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.
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
From £85.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I charge a set fee of £95 for an initial consultation.
Fees for ongoing therapy start from £85 per session and are arranged on a sliding scale linked to income and ability to pay.
I have some concessionary places on enquiry, dependent on individual circumstances.
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