About me
Although life is often challenging, there are times when these challenges can feel overwhelming, devastating, catastrophic and can turn into a crisis. Psychotherapy helps you to find your way through these difficult times, knowing that there is someone walking alongside you and accompanying you on your journey so that you are not alone.
As we build a relationship of trust and confidence, you will feel supported and guided to safely explore your situation and who your are, thus becoming increasingly aware of what it is that you really need and want. You’ll be able to make more sense of your situation and find a growing sense of ease and wellness.
As your story unfolds, psychotherapy brings awareness and insight into previously unseen truths and influences, which can then be worked through and made sense of together.
The process depends on you being able to feel confident, safe, and relaxed with your therapist so that the real work of delving deep beneath the surface can take place in a supportive relationship.
I am a couples therapist using Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy to facilitate relationship transformation through an attachment perspective. Through identifying the negative cycles that couples get stuck within, we work to find insight and understanding of why these cycles have been established and the emotions that lie beneath the cycles - the longings, yearnings and needs that we seek to have fulfilled by our partners.
I provide support for a wide range of issues, including but not limited to:
- Anxiety, stress and Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- Abandonment issues
- ADHD, autism and neurodivergence
- Adoption - as an adult adoptee or adopting your own children
- Attachment issues and how they play out within relationships
- Depression, sadness, grief, and loss
- Trauma – past, present and complex
- Anger management, Emotional instability and overwhelm
- Relationship issues, separation and divorce
- Acute and chronic illness, both physical and mental
- Life transitions – including leaving home, starting out alone, becoming independent, starting a family and issues with fertility, becoming a parent, parenting young children, parenting teens, children leaving home, becoming a couple or becoming single, menopause, retirement, facing elderly life, and facing our mortality
- Becoming a parent is a huge transition. It may bring up unresolved grief about one's own parents. It may raise uncomfortable thoughts and feelings about how we ourselves were parented, bringing our own attachment style into question. I support new mothers and fathers to be able to explore their own attachment style whilst being able to promote a healthy attachment style for their baby.
- Becoming a parent can bring areas of further complication to what is often already an overwhelming time, such as miscarriage and baby loss, birth trauma, breastfeeding trauma. Feeling supported to work through these complicating issues can be incredibly healing for individual parents, couples and the family unit.
My modality is mainly psychodynamic but I also use elements of CBT to support your current experience whilst we delve deeper to explore your unconscious feelings and experiences.
Training, qualifications & experience
Having worked for over 30 years within the NHS with adults and children – with birth, death and most things in between, I bring great depth of experience and knowledge when I support you.
I have a postgraduate degree in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy and am trained in Couples Therapy using the attachment-based Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy (EFCT).
You can trust that I am well equipped to effectively support you in the challenges and difficulties that you are facing.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Couples Therapy (EFCT)
- Birth trauma
- Breastfeeding trauma
- Miscarriage
- Baby loss
- Transition to parenthood
- New parents
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 - £100.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
It's really important that you find the right therapist for you, so if you would to talk about how I work and have an opportunity to ask questions before starting therapy, I can offer you a free 20 minute phone call.
I am sometimes able to offer some concessionary rates, please do feel free to discuss this with me.
When I work
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Further information
Sessions can be face-to-face, online via Zoom, or a mixture of both.
