About me
I am a qualified mental health counsellor, holding a level 4 diploma in therapeutic counselling, and I bring a human and friendly approach to my sessions for my clients. I have explored my own path through mental health therapy and found the feeling not only life changing but unique to any other experience. This filled me with a passion to help others feel the same way I did, hence here I am today.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified mental health counsellor, holding a level 4 diploma in therapeutic counselling and a registered member of the BACP.
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
Dealing with the impact of shift working
Therapies offered
Fees
£30.00 - £45.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Sessions last for 50 minutes at a time, and I offer:
Face to face sessions
Online sessions via a number of platforms
Telephone counselling sessions
Prices are as follows:
Face to face - £45
Online and telephone - £30
Further information
As your counsellor, it is my job to hold a safe, warm, and non-judgemental space for you so that you can begin to explore your mind and discuss any issues that you wish to explore during your sessions. I will be there beside you as you begin to unravel your own mind. There is never any pressure from me to go at anything other than your pace during our sessions, and never fear repetition over an issue because some problems take multiple sessions to process fully and move on from.
My counselling work is very humanistic and informal. I strive to let the therapy do its work in the background, indeed some of my clients haven't even realised they've been doing work on themselves until we point it out to ourselves. That to me is proper therapeutic work. This benefits you greatly because not only will you make progress on your therapy journey at your pace, you will feel in control of your sessions and as they progress there is a very good chance you will begin to enjoy them and look forward to them. Therapy is very simple if we get it right by working on it together, regardless of how deep or traumatic any issue may seem at first glance.
