About me
Hi, I am an Integrative therapist and clinical supervisor with over 26 years of experience working with adults and young people. I have a private practice from home, based in South Manchester and can offer face-to-face or video-based therapy and supervision to anyone living in the UK.
My approach is holistic. I believe that connecting with the mind and body is essential to long-term change and healing. Therefore I integrate emotion focused therapy with Inner child work, emotional freedom technique (EFT) and a somatic approach to explore themes and issues and help you to connect with and process your emotions at a deeper level.
I am a humanistic therapist, so part of my main focus will be in building a good therapeutic relationship with you by creating a space of empathy, congruence and openness, whilst working with you to cultivate self-compassion and guiding you to make conscious choices as a way to be more true to yourself and in alignment with how you want to live.
Over the years I have learnt to use the challenges and adversities of life as a way for deeper insights and self-growth. If you are open and curious to gently peel back the layers, build more awareness, understand your patterns and develop different ways to relate to yourself and others I can offer a space for this. I believe that therapy can be part of our healing and personal growth
Training, qualifications & experience
- Cert in Counselling (1997)
- Dip in Counselling (2000)
- Lifespan Integration (Working with Trauma-Level 1) 2015
- Counselling for Depression (CfD-2018)
- Supervision in counselling and psychotherapy (2020)
- Supervision in Counselling for Depression (CfD-2021)
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
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
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Further information
I work with a diverse range of issues, key areas are in relationships, trauma codependency, addictions, narcissistic abuse, female survivors of sexual assault, sexual abuse, race, culture and sexuality. I also have years of experience working with the LGBTQ+ community.
An integrative approach will help you to become aware of and understand the root cause of the issues you are experiencing and create changes in relating to yourself more authentically
