About me
Beginning therapy can feel like a big step, especially if you are reaching out for the first time. I offer a warm, confidential and non-judgmental space where you can speak freely, feel truly heard and move forward at your own pace.
As an integrative counsellor with over 12 years experience across local charities and private practice, I approach every session with kindness, humility and curiosity. I respect your unique lived experience and work collaboratively with you to explore what underpins your thoughts and feelings. By acknowledging how you truly feel and deepening your self-awareness, meaningful and lasting change becomes possible.
I work with adults experiencing a wide range of challenges, including:
- Anxiety and depression
- Relationships and relational difficulties
- Recent or historic trauma, sexual abuse and domestic abuse
- Grief, loss and and life transitions
If you are considering therapy, I invite you to get in touch for a free, no obligation telephone consultation to discuss your hopes for counselling.
How I Work
Counselling
Counselling offers a dedicated, confidential space to explore the things that matter to you, to reflect and to make thoughtful choices about your life. Drawing primarily on person-centred and psychodynamic approaches, we can gently explore how earlier life experiences and relationships may be influencing your present patterns, while tailoring our sessions to suit what feels right for you. Rather than telling you what to do, I support you in finding your own way forward.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)
In addition to counselling, I offer Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) - a structured, short-term psychotherapeutic intervention. NET is particularly effective for individuals who have experienced multiple or complex trauma, and who may experience PTSD symptoms.
NET sessions are 90 minutes long and usually take place over 12-14 weeks. If you feel this approach might suit your needs, please feel free to get in touch to discuss it, or visit www.net-institute.org/whatisnet for more information.
What to expect from your first session
I offer a free initial 20 minute phone consultation so that we can make contact, discuss your hopes for counselling and see if we feel like a good fit to work together. Simply send me an email to arrange a time for this.
Counselling: Our first meeting will form a 50 minute assessment session. During this session, we can discuss what has brought you to counselling as well as your hopes and expectations. I hope this will also give you a chance to ask questions and consider whether counselling will be helpful for you. All subsequent counselling sessions are 50 minutes long.
NET: In our first session we will have up to 60 minutes in which we can discuss the process of NET and complete the initial checklists. Subsequent NET sessions are 90 minutes long.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc in Integrative Counselling - 2013
- Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling - 2012
- Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling - 2024
- Narrative Exposure Therapy training - 2024
- Certificate in Counselling - 2009
- BSc in Psychology - 2007
I am a registered, accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and abide by their code of ethics. I attend regular supervision and CPD trainings in line with the requirements of the BACP.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Counselling:
- 50-minute assessment session - £55
- Counselling sessions (50 minutes) - £55
Narrative Exposure Therapy:
- Initial 60-minute session - £55
- NET sessions (90 minutes) - £80
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