This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Although life can be challenging, there are times when these challenges feel overwhelming, devastating and can develop into crisis. Psychotherapy helps you to find your way through these difficult times, knowing that there is someone walking alongside you.
We will build a relationship of trust and confidence so that you feel supported to explore your situation and become 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 provide support for a wide range of issues, including but not limited to:
- Anxiety and stress
- Attachment issues
- Depression, sadness, grief, and loss
- Trauma – past and present
- Birth Trauma
- Anger and emotional instability
- Relationship issues
- Acute and chronic ill health, physical and mental
- Life transitions – including leaving home, starting out alone, fertility issues, becoming a parent, living with teens, children leaving home, becoming a couple or becoming single, menopause, retirement, facing elderly life, and facing our mortality
- Complications such as fertility issues, miscarriage and baby loss, birth trauma or breastfeeding trauma are difficult to navigate. These painful issues can bring further pain and turmoil to what is often already an overwhelming and complicated time for new parents. Feeling supported to work through birth trauma and other painful experiences related to fertility and early parenthood can be incredibly healing for individual parents, couples and the family unit.
- Becoming a parent 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.
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.
My work as an NHS midwife, breastfeeding counsellor and early parenting specialist allows me to bring experience and expertise to supporting new parents with the emotional transition to parenthood.
I have a postgraduate degree in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy. This, along with my healthcare work and my own life experience means 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
- Birth trauma
- Breastfeeding trauma
- Miscarriage
- Baby loss
- Transition to parenthood
- New parents
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
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.
Further information
Sessions can be face-to-face, online via Zoom, or a mixture of both. I work from a variety of private, beautiful counselling spaces in Brighton, Hove and South West London, where you will feel relaxed, safe and comfortable.
It may be possible for us to meet in a counselling space where you can bring your baby.
