About me
I offer a variety of Counselling, Coaching and Wellbeing interventions, on both a one-to-one and group training/workshop basis. Typically Counselling is distinguished from Coaching as being more focused on the alleviation of distress within the individual, whilst coaching is more often seen as being about enhancing performance or one's life experience, rather than treating dysfunction.
The boundaries between Counselling and Coaching are breaking down and the two disciplines are beginning to integrate their approaches because, in practice, they rely heavily on similar skills and overlap to a large extent. In my actual work with individuals I am accordingly less concerned with whether the label attached to the intervention is called 'coaching' or 'counselling', and supporting clients to make the constructive, practical changes which will enhance their lives.
You can waste so much of your life and potential by not seeking support and help that you might believe, at odd moments, you actually have several lives available to you instead of only one - but you don't! So please don't waste any more time and act now by getting in touch with me.
Training, qualifications & experience
My training and approach:
The overall aim of my counselling is to provide an opportunity for the individual to work towards living in a more satisfying, resourceful and meaningful way. I have been trained as an integrative counsellor - this means that I see each client as being a unique individual, living in and coping with, a unique situation, and I draw upon a range of therapies including Person-Centred, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Humanistic-Existential Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, in order to select what will best help, and work, for each client.
My counselling:
- is based on mutual respect, mutual trust and freedom of expression
- is underpinned by the premise that we are all fallible/imperfect people
- is individually tailored to each person's requirements
- seeks to promote insight and self-awareness
- promotes developing new strategies for living
My Qualifications include:
- BSSc
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Foundation Degree in Counselling (Passed with Distinction)
- Certificate in Coaching
- Certificate in Performance Coaching
- Certificate in Stress Management
- Diploma in Marketing
- Diploma in Management Accounting
- National Open College Network Level 3: Developing Student Study Skills
- Certificate in Swedish Massage
- Certificate in Sports Massage
Continuing Professional Development includes:
- Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Preventing Suicides through Education
- Mental health First Aid Certificate
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
From £50.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- £50 per session.
- £35 discounted rate to counselling trainees.
Further information
Academic Awards and Membership of Professional Bodies:
Arthur Andersen Award for first place in my Finals, and awarded Wilforge Foundation Scholarship to study for MBA. I was a Founding Member of the Association for Coaching (AC) and I am an Individual Member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
Published articles include:
Coaches keep firms ahead of the game
The bandwagon of coaching culture is rapidly coming this way
Employers should take issue of stress seriously
Secrets of interview success
Think carefully before you decide to 'find a career'
Doing more work is best way to beat 'thief of time'
Persisting at not persisting creates more problems
Engaging in 'people pleasing' behaviour could turn you into a Norman No-Mates
Act now to take the first steps towards achieving the changes you want in life
Interests
Instructor in Yang style Tai Chi Chuan, meditation and mindfulness; played tennis for Ulster and capped 67 times for Ireland at badminton, and also represented NI in two Commonwealth Games
