About me
Supporting you to believe in yourself.
Welcome to my profile
I am an Integrative Counsellor which means that I draw on a range of models of psychotherapy to tailor therapy to your individual needs. My overarching aim however is to support you to feel at ease, heard and validated. I will meet you with empathy, warmth and compassion.
I respect your autonomy and will not offer you advice or tell you what to do.
I am MBACP Accredited (2012) and adhere to BACP Ethical Guidelines.
I have 20 years' experience of supporting people of all ages to work through a range of issues including Trauma and Attachment, Anxiety and Depression, Domestic Abuse, Bereavement and Relationship difficulties.
Over the years I have worked as a counsellor for various statutory and non-statutory agencies. These include Family Support Services, CRUSE Bereavement, Women's Aid, The Zone, a centre for young people aged 13-25 years of age, Primary and Secondary Education in Plymouth and the NHS.
I welcome you into a safe and confidential space where I support you to make sense of your experiences and life events and to clarify your thoughts and feelings.
Supporting you through Loss and Grief
I offer to be alongside you as you come to terms with feelings of loss, grief, hurts and disappointments.
Understanding Emotional Patterns
I support you to explore and to identify patterns that you may wish to change in order for you to lead a more fulfilling life with greater understanding and confidence.
Building Confidence and Self-Understanding
My aim is to help you understand your emotions more clearly, build self-confidence, and to overcome low self-esteem.
Supporting Healthy Change
I will support you in moving beyond self-doubt, creating healthier boundaries in your relationships, and reconnecting with your true self-worth.
My Philosophy
I have witnessed how our early experiences, including our unmet needs in infancy, can shape the way we think, feel, and behave. These experiences can create patterns that continue into in our adulthood that no longer benefit us. I also recognise that deep seated emotional pain, trauma, and grief can be held in the body beyond our conscious awareness. I gently support you to bring your experiences into your awareness so they can be reframed, integrated and healed.
Impact on Wellbeing
I believe that trauma and unresolved emotional pain can create an internal imbalance, disrupting the body’s natural energy flow. This can show up in many ways, including low motivation, anxiety, tension, overthinking, physical pain, or a sense of feeling stuck.
Over time, these experiences can affect self-esteem, relationships, work, and decision-making. They may also contribute to stress responses that disrupt the nervous system, memory, and immune function.
How I Can Support You
I offer a range of techniques and strategies to help regulate the nervous system, including breathwork, grounding exercises, and mindfulness techniques.
Combining Psychotherapy, Energy Healing and Shamanism
For those who are interested after many years I have recently expanded my practice to weave together models of psychotherapy, energy healing and my 25-years' experience of following a Shamanic path.
I draw on shamanism to help you to identify the root cause of challenging issues supporting you to heal from deep seated emotional wounds, trauma, and grief. Shamanic practice can help reach the root of issues more quickly. It involves connecting to your higher consciousness reconnecting to your innate wisdom and recognising that the answers you seek are already within you. It can include supporting you to clear and release unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that may have been passed down your ancestral line. It can also incorporate devising rituals that involve your intentional symbolic action to release or manifest things into your life. A ritual can be as simple as throwing a stick into a river or writing down what you want to change and burning the paper in a fire.
Energy Healing supports you to attune to your own body. It can help restore your body’s natural energy flow, assisting you to reconnect with your own inner wisdom and your innate capacity to heal. It is gentle and non-invasive and leads to a sense of peace, calm and relaxation particularly after exploring any challenges hurts and disappointments that may have arisen in counselling.
Work Space
I provide a peaceful and nurturing space in my private garden yurt which overlooks the Tamar Valley and Dartmoor National Park.
My yurt is accessed via steps.
I offer face-to-face and remote appointments.
I invite you to a free preliminary meeting so you can decide whether I am the right person to support you.
Thank you for reading my profile.
Please contact me if you would like further information.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Bachelor of Education Honours Degree
- European Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Children and Adolescents
- Practitioner Certificate in Affective Neuroscience and Attachment Theory
- The Shaman's Quest 2-year training.
- Modern Medicine Woman
- Bridging the Worlds- Shamanism for Therapeutic Professionals
- Diploma in Psychic Development
- Diploma in Professional Energy Healing
- Reiki Level 1, 2 and Advanced Practitioner.
- Emotional Freedom Technique Level 2
- Introduction to Psychology. Open University
- Social Psychology, Open University
- Cognitive Psychology, Open University
- Child Development, Open University
- Understanding Emotional Trauma: A Person-Centred Perspective
- Anger, Rage and Relationship/The Link between Rage and Shame
- Working with LGBT Clients
- Beyond the Binary- Transgender 101
- Expressive Dance
- Transactional Analysis 01/Life scripts and how they impact on us as therapists.
- The Real Deal: Four Aspects of Relationships
- Gestalt Therapy
- Working with ASC
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.
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.
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I charge £55 a session with concessions for those on lower incomes
You are welcome to pay by cash or BAC's transfer.
A block of 6 sessions £250.000. Payment required in advance.
Further information
I am committed to ongoing personal training and professional development. I have regular clinical supervision and attend many workshops and courses to enhance the quality of the service that I offer to my clients.
Please contact me if you would like more information or if you would like a free preliminary meeting so you can decide whether I am the right person to support you.
