This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
You carry within you the means to answer every question you have about yourself. About your past and how your perceptions of it exert an enduring influence. About your present life, how your recollections of childhood and your adult choices have shaped it, and continue to shape it. About what fulfilment means for you, specifically, how you might attain it, achieve contentment, be at peace, in your world and with your world. All the answers are there. All you need do is find them.
I can help. I can help you form the questions you need to ask, interpret the answers you find, process the knowledge and insight they give you, help you get to know and accept the self – potentially, the many selves – who will be revealed to you. The journey may be difficult, uncomfortable, at times even painful, but I’ll be there, to guide, though not to lead, to support, though not to carry, and always with empathy and compassion, acceptance and respect. I can assist you in discovering the wellsprings of strength and wisdom that lie within you, and help you draw upon them to transform your life for the better.
I believe in the potential of counselling to address life's challenges. I am never shocked, though what I hear can be shocking. I never judge, though clients too often believe they deserve judgement. I never condemn, even when clients condemn themselves, convinced they are beyond help, beyond hope. They are not. No one is.
Training, qualifications & experience
In 2021, I started out on the path to qualified counsellor status, attaining the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling from Staffordshire University in September 2024. In the course of my training and student placement - during which I accumulated over 500 hours clinical practice - it was my privilege to counsel an extensive client base. By every metric - age, ethnicity, nationality, gender, neurodivergence, orientation, faith - the spectrum has been characterised by diversity. In addition, I can draw upon six decades of life experience and a facility for active listening in exercising an empathic appreciation of the challenges faced by people from multiple backgrounds.
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
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
If you would struggle to afford the stated single-session fee, contact me and we can have a chat about it.
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In the not-too-distant future, I will be moving to a Wednesday to Sunday (inclusive) working week pattern.
Further information
Lives are complicated and most of us have inflexible demands on our time. I will do my best to accommodate our session times to your requirements.
