About me
Welcome! I am Rosa, a humanistic relational therapist, which, simply put, means I hold the value that everyone has within themselves the wisdom and healing capacity to grow towards health and wholeness. And as inherently social beings, that it is within the container of safe and loving relationships that the deepest reparative relational healing can happen.
I have come to see this work as fundamentally about broadening and deepening our capacity to feel and examine the things we haven’t previously been able to bear or manage, so as to feel more whole. As such, the bedrock of my approach is to provide an environment of warmth and safety in which people can dive deep into their thoughts and feelings and experiences, while being met with empathy and clear reflections.
Together we can make sense of how your ancestral and cultural background, perinatal and significant life events, and early caregiver relationships lay down the blueprint for how you now relate to yourself, others, and the world. We can unpack your experiences, explore your relational patterns, and get to know the different parts of you—both those that are familiar and those that usually stay in the shadows.
I will sensitively work to your pace as you find ways to express your feelings, memories, embodied sensations, thoughts, and dreams free from judgment. I can offer you an honest yet compassionate presence and will be active in the process. We can explore beyond words through drawing, symbolic, or sand tray work if you'd like. We can also turn the breath and movement making as ways of deepening, grounding, and resourcing in sessions. I will be interested in what most appeals to you.
If you are feeling like life is overwhelming you and you are left anxious, panicky, confused, unfathomably angry, or lost in a sense of sadness; if you are feeling adrift from others, or compelled to continue destructive or toxic relationships; if you're finding it hard to alleviate your distress or find meaning and satisfaction in life - then therapy can be a good place to turn.
I have over 15 years of experience in working to depth as a therapist with trauma and abuse survivors, people suffering from cptsd, dissociative identity disorder, changes in identity, conflictual relationships, low moods, long term health conditions, complex grief and end of life concerns. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and attentive to the wisdom of the body, psyche, and nervous system. Over the past 20 years I have worked across a range of services in therapist, supervisor and clinical lead roles. My work draws from Person-Centred, Jungian, somatic, attachment-based, and Transpersonal (spiritual) perspectives.
I am passionate about the the power of relationship and ritual to be catalysts of deeper awareness and connection. Alongside 1:1 work I co-facilitate groups in psychedelic integration and breathwork and host supervision groups for therapists. I'm also working in a psilocybin research trial at University of Exeter which explores whether taking psychedelics within a community-based framework can deepen social belonging, integration and wellbeing. Additionally I support people who want to consciously prepare to enter expanded states of consciousness - be that through holotropic breathwork or plant medicine - and process and integrate both the insights and the shadows that can come to light from these experiences.
I welcome people of all gender identities, sexual orientations and relationship configurations, and work with people whichever their stage of their therapeutic journey - from those who have not tried therapy before, to those who have but are looking for a different approach, to trainee therapists and as a supervisor to therapists.
I am an Accredited member of BACP and abide by their code of professional conduct and ethics and work within Data protection guidelines. I attend fortnightly supervision as well as regular conferences and further training events.
I welcome you contacting me for an initial call to see if I am the right fit for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Over the past 20 years I have worked for sexual health; abuse recovery; community adult and young peoples' counselling agencies, as well as children's residential services and an HIV/AIDS charity. I have designed and delivered training on different aspects of mental health within this agency work and held lead therapist, clinical lead and supervisor roles.
- Diploma in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy - The Institute of Psychedelic therapies, 2025
- Diploma in Applied Transactional Analysis - The Link Centre, 2022
- Certificate in Group Facilitation - Embodied Relational School, 2022
- Certificate in Transactional Analysis - Metanoia, 2021
- Diploma in Integrative Supervision - Online therapy Institute, 2022
- Cert IPT Supervision - Anna Freud Centre, 2019
- Accreditation in IPT, Anna Freud Centre, 2017
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Essential Skills, APT, 2014
- Professional Level 5 Diploma in Person Centred Counselling and Therapy, Plymouth University, 2012
- Diploma in Reflexology, Bayley School of Reflexology, 2005
- BA Hons Communications with Linguistics, University of Leeds, 2001
My DBS is kept up to date along with Advanced child protection and Vulnerable adults training certificates.
I have attended recent continuing professional training courses:
Internal Family Systems; Compassion Focused Therapy; LGBTQ+ ; Attachment theory; Trauma (polyvagal theory); Addiction; Self-harm and Suicidal thoughts; CSE (child sexual exploitation); ADHD; Dyslexia; Forced Marriage and honour-based violence
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Grief and Loss
- Life transitions
- Communication to address conflict
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Due to our current cost of living crisis, I am now running a sliding scale for sessions of between £60-£70 per 60 min session, and trust you to decide what you can afford to pay.
Some concessions are available for those with an annual household income of less than £30k. Please let me know when you get in touch if concessions are something we need to consider.
When I work
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Further information
I am based in the Bird House Therapy Centre which is on Arwenack Street in the centre of Falmouth. Please visit the website for more details about what you can expect and how to find me: www.birdhousefalmouth.co.uk
