This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am a Relational Therapist, working with you to raise awareness of the ‘why’ behind the challenges you face, in order to gain release from suffering. As an experienced therapist, informed by professional and lived experience, I am able to hold the space for deep and sometimes difficult exploration, in which I am active with unimposing intervention and challenge, to support re-connection to your authentic self.
A private practice professional in the therapeutic space since the mid-1990s, I’ve lived and practised in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the UK. As a result I have extensive experience working cross-culturally, with great sensitivity. This includes working with immigrants, ex-pats, refugee trauma survivors, and significant ongoing experience with a large client base in the Arab States.
Counselling training in the Psychodynamic and Clarkson 5-Strand Relationship Models, along with practice in bodywork, talking therapies and behaviour change experience inform my Integrative Counselling approach, where relationships and how we relate to ourselves (including our body) and others, is key to understanding how we experience life and its influence on our physical and mental wellbeing.
My private practice is further enriched by work in the corporate EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) industry on Clinical Assessments and responding to clients at immediate risk of suicide and self harm, along with ongoing work as a School Counsellor in a central London senior school.
Key tenets to my approach include:
- Our past enters the room with us - We arrive as the culmination of everything we have lived, giving us access to the past in the present.
- Whole-body Awareness - It is body connection that keeps our mind in check and settles incessant thinking.
- ’In-between the Sessions’ - Sustainable change requires that realisations reached in the therapeutic work are put into practice in everyday life.
- Personal Responsibility - Liberation from suffering lies in understanding that the triggers lie within us, releasing us from the blame, guilt and shame cycle.
- Relational Depth - Our first relationship is with ourselves, and the quality of this informs our relationship with others.
Specialisms
- Relationships - individual and couples
- Anxiety related challenges, and depression
- Bereavement, Divorce and relationship endings
- Childhood Attachment and protection mechanisms
- Identity - Cultural, religious, LGBTQ+, transgender
- Menopause - symptoms and mental health impact
- Negative self talk and limiting self image
- Neurodiversity - ADHD, Autism Spectrum
- Religious and Spiritual - questions and exploration
- Work - stress, change, direction, purpose
How I Work
At its foundation, therapy is a relationship, so it is important to discern the person you intend to work with. You can contact me for a connect video call (up to 30mins, no charge) to discuss what you are looking for and get a sense of each other. If agreeable, we would book an initial consultation session to establish the foundation of working together based on what your intentions are, and discuss length and frequency of your counselling programme.
I work short term and long term, in-person and online, with clients in the UK and overseas.
All counselling sessions thereafter are 50mins.
2 Locations:
Eaton Gate Practice - 2 Eaton Gate, London SW1W 9BJ
Tube: Sloane Sq (3mins), Victoria (10mins)
Light Centre Belgravia - 9 Eccleston St, London SW1W 9LX
Tube: Victoria (3mins)
Training, qualifications & experience
Starting out with a BA major in Psychology, it completed as majors in Sociology and Politics, reflecting a desire to understand the world at large. I soon realised the key to understanding and affecting change in the world is understanding and supporting change in the individual. Hence, my life work is dedicated to understanding people and the way we relate.
Evolving with a career in bodywork, healing and talking therapy, my counselling approach highlights the value of noticing your body’s communication. Anxiety always indicates some degree of movement away from our body and what it naturally senses. Re-discovering that the body does not lie is pivotal in countering a mind overwhelmed with thoughts that can be incessant, critical, doubting, shameful or self-defeating. You sit down for the session in your body and experience the world through your body, so it makes sense your relationship with your body will be part of our counselling work.
I work with an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling model, trained in a number of different strands (Psychodynamic, Attachment Theory, Humanistic), in addition to the practical application of Lasting Behaviour Change work, giving me the flexibility to adapt to what each client is calling for.
I am not restricted to being issue specific and experience has brought great diversity of clients and exposure to a wide variance in what people struggle with, something I never apply a hierarchy of importance to. Each person’s presenting issue is unique and to be approached with equal honour, attentiveness and care.
MBACP Registered
- Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling -Integrative Psychodynamic/Behavioural Models (Mary Ward)
- Current advanced professional studies: Clinician's Pathway - Evidenced based Functional Behaviour Assessment with the Functional Assessment Behaviour Interventions Clinic (FABIC)
- Other Qualifications include: Bachelors Degree, extensive training in bodywork and healing modalities.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
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Fees
£60.00 - £130.00
Free initial online session
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Fees (In-person and Online)
- Individual: £80/session
- Couples: £130/session
- Young adults (up to 25yrs): £60/session
Advance multi-session purchase discounts available for ongoing clients, after 1st session booked and attended.
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