About me
Starting counselling is a brave step and it takes courage, but each small action – making contact, asking for help, coming to sessions – gives you potential for change. Working with me will be confidential and non-judgemental so you can share anything you need to. You might want to tell me about experiences you haven’t been able to tell anyone else – or you might just need to think things through a bit and decide what to do next.
Personal experiences shaped my work. Having grown up supporting a parent with mental health challenges, I learned the importance of boundaries and calm communication. This understanding, developed through volunteering in advocacy support and working in occupational therapy, gives me the ability to empathise with clients facing the difficulties life can bring us.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained in person-centred counselling and have undertaken professional development that helps me to understand and challenge issues of discrimination, abuse, neurodiversity and more and I have worked with issues around suicide, relationship breakdown, workplace bullying, anxiety and more.
But you are not an issue or a condition. You are a person and I want you to be more comfortable with who you are and the things you need in your life.
The person-centred way of working is all about letting you lead. If something isn’t right for you, we don’t work that way because it doesn’t fit you as a unique person. We will work together to find out what your answers might be, to challenge the automatic assumptions you make about yourself, and to see what you want your future to look like.
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.
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
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
£50.00 per session
Additional information
My current fee is £50.00 per fifty-minute session, payable 48 hours before the session takes place. Please give 48 hours notice if you need to cancel a session or unfortunately you may need to pay for that session. We can talk about this during your fifteen-minute initial phone call so we are both clear about our expectations.
Further information
I work online and telephone in the UK under the law of England and Wales.
I offer you a fifteen-minute phone call free of charge to see if we might be a good team. After that, I will be happy to work with you in a fifty-minute online session each week.
My current cost is £50.00 per session.
