About me
For over 17 years, I’ve been dedicated to supporting adults and young people in various capacities through life’s challenges, helping them move towards greater clarity, resilience, and fulfilment. As an integrative counsellor with a transpersonal approach, I invite clients to explore their inner world, confront difficulties with courage, and grow into a deeper, more connected sense of self. I’m a registered member of both the BACP and the BPS, and I believe that a warm, respectful, and trusting therapeutic relationship lies at the heart of meaningful change. My background includes working in education, volunteering with Cruse as a bereavement supporter, and working as a Homegroup Tutor with TIS UK.
My training in a range of therapeutic modalities allows me to adapt my approach to meet each client’s unique needs. People come to me with a wide variety of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship difficulties. I also work to support people who are facing personal or professional crises, grappling with identity or self-worth, and those navigating grief and bereavement, including complex loss, infant loss, and bereavement by suicide. Additionally, I also work with clients moving through major life transitions such as mid-life changes, struggling with a loss of meaning or purpose in their lives, those facing end-of-life concerns, or caring for someone who is dying.
In our work together, I’ll help you stay grounded and present, while we gently explore deeper emotional patterns and beliefs. My aim is to walk alongside you through difficult times, offering tools and insights that help you emerge stronger, wiser, and more self-aware..
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified integrative counsellor with a transpersonal approach, working in private practice. I am trained in a number of different approaches so I am able to tailor my sessions to my client's needs. I have experience working with people from all areas of life, including neurodiverse people (Autism/ ADHD), members of the LGBTQ+ community, and students and seniors. Also, as an experienced bereavement counsellor, I have helped many people who have faced loss, including complex grief, traumatic bereavement and suicide.
Working with me, we will work together to form a strong, safe and respectful relationship. On the one hand, I will help you to develop skills to help you in the present, for example by regulating your emotions, accepting difficult thoughts and feelings and becoming unstuck from self-defeating patterns. At the same time, I will help you to explore your inner self at a deeper level, getting to know the parts of you that are struggling, healing old wounds and releasing painful emotions.
If you would like to know more about me, how I work, or how I might be able to help you, please do contact me.
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
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I offer appointments face-to-face and online in central Canterbury on Tuesdays (9- 5pm), Wednesdays (9- 2pm) and Thursdays (9- 4pm). Car parks, plus bus and train stations nearby.
