About me
Reaching out for therapy can feel like a big step, particularly if you've spent a long time putting other people's needs before your own, feeling overwhelmed, or wondering why the same struggles keep resurfacing despite your best efforts.
For over 29 years, with around 28,000 clinical hours of experience, I have helped people understand themselves more deeply, recover from difficult experiences, and create lasting change. My approach is gentle, thoughtful and collaborative. I don't believe in a "one-size-fits-all" model of therapy. Instead, we'll work together to understand what has brought you here, what you want to change, and the approach that will be most helpful for you.
Many of the people I work with have lived with anxiety, low mood or depression for years. Others struggle with low self-esteem, people-pleasing, perfectionism, shame, self-criticism, relationship difficulties or feeling disconnected from themselves. I also have extensive experience helping people recover from trauma, PTSD and emotional, physical or sexual abuse, as well as working with long-standing obsessive-compulsive difficulties where CBT alone has not provided lasting change.
I believe that meaningful therapy begins with understanding you as a person, not simply your symptoms or a diagnosis you mat have been given. My role isn't to fit you into a textbook explanation, but to listen carefully, understand your experiences and help you make sense of the patterns that have shaped your life. Often, when we understand ourselves with greater compassion, lasting change becomes possible.
I was Director and Senior Therapist at the Liverpool Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy from 1997 until 2018, where I developed the practice into one of Merseyside's most respected private psychotherapy services. Although I now work exclusively online, I continue to offer the same high standards of professionalism, integrity and client care that built my reputation over more than two decades.
Around 40% of my clients are doctors and other healthcare professionals, although I work with people from every walk of life. Whatever your background, my aim is to provide a safe, confidential space where you feel genuinely heard, understood and supported.
Online therapy offers an effective, flexible, cost effective and convenient way to access experienced psychotherapy from the comfort of your own home or safe place. I understand how important it is to find the right therapist, so I'm always happy to answer questions about how I work, my training or the different types of therapy available, with no obligation to book.
I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP No. 376754) and work in accordance with their Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.
I always respond to enquiries and do not leave people waiting for a response (within my work hours). I am generally pretty busy, but will always try hard to accommodate a new appointment.
Training, qualifications & experience
4 Year Certificate in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
1 Year Certificate in Person Centred Counselling
1 Year Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Counselling
I have IRO 29,000 practice hours providing individual and group therapy as the Director of the Liverpool Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy
2 years lecturing on a Counselling Certificate course in Liverpool
Supervised by a Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
My experience is that while people are all unique and need to be individually understood; most issues arise from either anxiety and / or depression, present or historical conflict with the outside world and others, or from a conflicted relationship with ourselves, internal anger, hamster wheel / stuck thinking, feeling and behaving etc. I have helped thousands of people escape from these life affecting challenges.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£55 Per Full 60 Minute Session
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Further information
Having led a team for 21 years, I now practise independently, offering online therapy from a dedicated office separate from my home, providing a private and confidential space for our work together.
I am always happy to discuss the options that best suit your needs. I offer flexibility to accommodate busy lives, varying commitments, clients living abroad and the need to work around shift patterns.
Throughout my career as a psychotherapist and counsellor, I have strived to understand people as individuals, beyond what can be learned from textbooks alone. I believe meaningful therapeutic work begins with genuinely connecting with each person, listening carefully to their experiences, and understanding how they see themselves and the world around them.
I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), membership number 376754, and adhere to its ethical framework.
