This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
We all face difficulties in our lives. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming, there can be a sense of stuckness or an underlying feeling of dissatisfaction. In my work as a psychotherapist, I see the inherent human potential to work through suffering to find healing, inner change or inner strength. A fundamental part of this process is the experience of being truly heard, without judgement.
I am an integrative transpersonal psychotherapist. This means I have a holistic approach and draw on a range of therapeutic ways of working including humanistic, psychodynamic, gestalt and CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy). I work from the premise that each client is unique and therefore requires an individually tailored approach. The transpersonal dimension enhances the work by bringing depth and honouring one's deepest nature.
If the client wishes to incorporate other ways of working, I offer the opportunity to work with creative imagination interventions such as visualisations, dreamwork, sand play as well as mindfulness. These tools can be helpful when words alone feel limited.
In my experience, the impact of psychotherapy is largely based on what is right for each person. There can be a feeling of letting go, releasing something or discovering inner resources. A clearer understanding or way forwards can be revealed. If there are old patterns that no longer have a use, they can shift. New ways of living or being can be found. More of yourself can transpire. Sometimes it can feel difficult to face certain situations. I provide a warm, open and safe space to work through it.
I work both in long-term and short-term ways.
My clients include adults and adolescents.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BSc Human Psychology
- Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education in Little Venice. This was a five-year training programme that involved at least 550 hours of psychotherapy practice (at Help Counselling Centre in Notting Hill and EACH Counselling in Harlesden) and a psychiatric placement at The Maudsley Hospital. My training involved personal in-depth psychotherapeutic work.
- I see clients in my own private practice
- I also work as a pre-bereavement practitioner for the Ruth Strauss Foundation
Member organisations
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.