About me
I am a BACP Registered, Integrative Counsellor. Integrative counsellors use different approaches to suit the client.
I often see clients struggling with Generalised anxiety (GAD), panic attacks, depression and relationship difficulties. I have also worked with clients who have experienced challenging traumas, as well as addiction.
I see clients face to face, but also work a lot with clients in Europe, USA, New Zealand, India, Japan and South Africa via on-line platforms such as Zoom.
Many of my clients who are resident in the UK also choose to work online. This can be helpful for reasons of accessibility and ease.
I work with people of all ages. I have worked extensively in schools, and with adults, young adults and children from many different cultural and social backgrounds.
Often clients will come to me with complex and difficult feelings. I provide a kind, safe space for clients to come to terms with these and understand how they manifest in the present moment, and what may have caused them in the past.
We will then discover new ways for you to relate to yourself so you become more aware of what triggers the difficult feelings, and how best to process them in the here and now.
Some clients will want to work on these aspects of themselves for several months. For others, one or two sessions is enough.
It takes a brave leap of faith to come to therapy. But please know this work is non-judgemental and your opinions are respected and validated throughout the process.
You can email to ask any queries you have, even before starting counselling itself.
Training, qualifications & experience
My western training and counselling experience amounts to nearly 13 years. Most of my work blends humanism, psychodynamics, attachment theory and existential therapy, which translates as a compassionate enquiry to how did I become who I am? And what do I need to accept and what can I change?
I also trained as a Buddhist monk for 7 years. Eastern psychology is easily accessible to the West and helpful in the tools of meditation and mindfulness, as well as it’s theory of the Mind.
I have also received recent training in Affect Therapy, which refuses labels, and encourages both counsellor and client to take a step away from the false refuge of ‘self’ and ego: Often we find that because of the confusion of emotional pain, we may fiercely or fearfully hold on to what we believe to be a self. This is initially quite understandable, but it also consolidates a defensive ego.
Later, as we begin to understand how the emotional pain has shut us down and or made us reactive, we can have a much bigger sense of a kinder space we truly belong in.
Affect therapy will use dreams, creative writing, spontaneous changes of direction in the therapy room and illicit a growing sense of trust in the unknown., rather than a pathology of labels and control.
To grow this trust, which many clients report has been broken, is one of the feelings and affect we will begin to find in this pratice.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- £65 - 80 for 50 minutes to one hour, depending on affordability
- I can offer a free 20 minute consultation.
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Further information
I am happy to have a free consultation for 20/30 minutes. This will give you and I the opportunity to get to know each other, and to feel if it's going to work for both us. For any counselling to work, you need someone you can trust and relate to.
