About me
Sessions are online – UK and Worldwide
You may be experiencing anxiety, depression, loneliness, relationship challenges, low self-confidence, a loss in meaning, the impact of childhood experiences or difficult emotions that overwhelm you. You may be wanting a change for yourself or going through a significant life event or transition.
Therapy can offer a space for support, healing, growth and transformation. It can be a space to meet what may difficult in life with care.
I offer a warm, relational and down-to-earth approach that supports open dialogue through creating a space which supports you as an individual and your reason for coming to counselling.
I am a fully qualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with over 20 years of experience of providing therapeutic support to people.
I offer a free initial 50-minute consultation session so that you can meet me, ask questions, experience the way I work and decide if I am the right Counsellor for you at this time.
I specialise in and can help you with:
Relationship Difficulties
Challenges in family and intimate relationships, attachment challenges and trauma, dating, relational co-dependency, boundaries, avoidance. Developing communication and relational skills for healthy relationships. Sexuality and intimacy.
Emotional regulation & wellbeing
Support and skills to understand and regulate difficult emotions and feeling states including anxiety, fear, overwhelm, anger, stress, sadness. As well as develop ways to increase wellbeing, calm and peace through supporting nervous system regulation and care.
Life transitions & changes
Bereavement, grief & loss. Career changes, divorce, children leaving home, mid-life transition, peri-menopause, menopause. Experiencing a loss of meaning and purpose.
The impact of Childhood & Adult Trauma
This may include anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, feelings of hopelessness or being lost. Disconnection from personal needs, feelings or desires. Experiences of shame, grief and guilt.
Culture, race & identity
Experiences and questions about identity, connection and belonging, discrimination, mixed heritage identity. Relationships in the context of race and identity.
Sessions might include:
• Bringing awareness to your thoughts, feelings and the behaviours that effect your experience of life and relationships.
• Identifying the stories you tell yourself or your internal self-talk and making links with how this impacts your experience and behaviour.
• Working with body-led, movement and somatic approaches. For example being invited into contact with what you are experiencing in your body, as well as your thoughts and feelings.
• Mindfulness skills and exercises, nervous system awareness and emotional regulation skills. Based on research and evidence-based knowledge about the neurophysiology of emotions and relationships with others.
• Supporting and identifying your strengths, hopes, goals and growth towards personal wellbeing.
• Working creatively and soulfully to access deeper or unseen parts of yourself. Working with images, metaphors, drawing, dreams, music, poetry and parts work.
• Psychoeducation about the body, mind, relationships and psychology. I may develop bespoke handouts which includes psychoeducation specific to your experience. These might include tools and skills where this supports our work.
I will always invite us to work in a way and pace that is right for you has compassion at its centre and respects your personal journey.
Training, qualifications & experience
My qualifications
As a qualified Integrative Transpersonal Counsellor I am accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I hold a BSC Psychology first degree and a Certificate of Higher Education in Counselling and Counselling skills. I have worked in the areas of mental health and wellbeing for over 20 years supporting individuals in one-to-one and group settings. This has included working at practitioner, clinical management and consultancy levels.
My Experience
I previously worked extensively in mental health and health services across the UK for over 20 years. During this time, I received training in multiple-therapeutic approaches.
My experience includes providing trauma-informed therapies and group programmes, with a focus on healing the impact of childhood and adult trauma. This has included the role of Adult Service Lead at a specialist award winning trauma-informed mental health charity.
I also led London’s first Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Centre as Clinic Director. Where a team of psychiatrists, psychologists & therapists provided treatment for anxiety, depression and addiction.
My Approach
My integrative (meaning more than one model) approach to therapy is informed by considering what might be most helpful to you. Your individual experience and needs are given priority.
My approach is informed by both traditional and contemporary models of therapy such as Developmental Psychology, Psychodynamic, Behavioural, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Jungian, Transpersonal Psychology, Depth & Archetypal Psychology and somatic/body-based therapies.
I work with an active knowledge of the neurophysiology of the human nervous system, emotions, attachment and relationships. This includes Polyvagal Theory, somatic/body-based approaches, applied mindfulness skills such as DBT and trauma-specific therapy approaches.
As a Transpersonal Counsellor I hold in mind an ethos of life that includes the heart and soul. I therefore, hold a space for the heart and soul in our work. In practice this means I hold a care and a trust for your own inner wisdom, your life’s unique personal journey and the evolution that your experience is inviting you into.
I have an interest in contemporary frameworks to understanding psychological and physical health such as functional medicine. This includes how the body, nutrition, body movement, creativity, the environment, our relationship with both the natural world and our social connections support emotional health and wellbeing.
I therefore bring a whole-person awareness when working with you.
I have a solid foundation of clinical experience and I do not believe that one size fits all. Together we will collaborate to create an approach to our work that will be most supportive for you.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 per session
Additional information
Frequency of sessions
I offer both short-term (8 sessions) and medium to long term counselling. Sessions are weekly or fortnightly. You can choose to finish at any time.
Flexible weekly session times are available for those who may require these for work or family reasons. For example if you work irregular work patterns and need a varying session time.
The session fee is £85 per session.
E-mail me to book a free 50-minute initial consultation session.
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