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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am an integrative therapist; In viewing human personality I apply a kaleidoscope allowing me to find the best fit to work with the person in front of me, whilst mental integration is the main goal. I will try to see YOU; a unique person with a deeply embedded complex feelings, thoughts and set of behaviours acquired over the years. My intention is to help you consider afresh all that; I will encourage you to free your inner space from the clutter, revisit some outdated beliefs and get in touch with some old states that might be ‘to blame’ for the present day pains and aches. While you are searching for the truth about you, I will be your sounding board and someone who affirms the good stuff and challenges you when you sound like someone else, not YOU.
Say, lately you have been feeling excessively anxious or very low and depressed; or you have spent several sleepless nights... Well, I reckon, something is knocking on your ‘mental’ door asking to be let in; something is urging you to give up the existence you have limited yourself to and start living the life that is yours? In other words, the complaint you have is just a symptom of ...life, really.
Or another example, say lately you have been using alcohol or drugs to soothe your pain, to fill the emptiness that makes you go bonkers. That, in turn, has made you feel guilty and useless. The more you drink the worst you feel and it is getting totally out of control! I would try to help you be honest with yourself clearing out of the way all the denial, I will help you make sense of the reasons why you do what you do and enable you to find your way out of this self-defeating cycle.
Or let’s say you have been abandoned by your partner, whether in separation or in death, and it is unbearably painful. I will give you the space you need to consider not only the relationship you have lost but what might be fuelling the pain you are experiencing.
Whatever your predicament, together we might be able to re-channel your energies to allow you to grow and expand into the person you are meant to be: deeper, larger, freer using your powers to create.
Training, qualifications & experience
My qualifications
I am a BACP accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist which means that the UK largest professional body for counselling and psychotherapy has confirmed that I meet the standards for a competent, ethical and independent practitioner.
I started my career as a linguist and university lecturer.
My midlife ‘crisis’ made me look into the things in life I feel passionate about and I realised that counselling and psychotherapy was what I wanted to pursue as a career! I then studied...a long time. I completed:
- Bachelor Degree in Psychology
- Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling, a BACP accredited course
- Certificate in the Use of Drama and Movement in Therapy
- Certificate in Working with Addictions and Eating Disorders
- Couple counselling course with Re-vision
- Diploma in Supervision with Re-vision
In addition to that I regularly attend continuing professional development seminars such as:
- A number of CPD seminars on trauma
- Remote therapy
- Parent-Infant Attachment and the Impact on Adult Relationships
- Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Address Insomnia across Mental Health Problems
- Effective Group Work
- Working with Clients Presenting with Addictive Behaviour
- Fundamentals of Gestalt Theory
- The Development of Psychoanalysis in the Tavistock and Portman Clinic
- Working with Survivors of Sexual Child Abuse
- Brief Counselling
Ethical code of practice
I work under BACP code of practice.
My experience
I have worked with clients from all walks of life, bringing to counselling most problems we people suffer from: loss, unresolved traumatic experiences, addictions, depression, relationship problems, grappling with physical and mental abuse - past or present. Most often, those are presented as 'not feeling good enough', 'not fitting in', 'not feeling belonging', 'not feeling loved and important by/to anyone'. I take great care to distinguish between symptoms and underlying causality and 'get to the bottom' of it. Our mental condition can be likened to a physical wound; if you don't treat it properly it will fester, get inflamed; making the rest of the body feeling in pain. Therapy, if done well, attends to the mental wound, cleans it and lets it heal.
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
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Health Insurance/EAP
When I work
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8am - 8pm Monday to Friday
