About me
I have over 15 years of experience as a BACP-accredited therapist working with adults. I provide a safe, non-judgemental space in which to explore the issues that have led you to approach me for therapy.
As an integrative therapist, I use a range of different approaches in order to think with you about how you manage and approach your life. You may want to consider a particular issue or it might be the time to think about your life in general. I adapt my approach according to your individual needs.
Together we can explore how your childhood and past experiences have impacted your current frame of mind and your relationships, whether with family members, friends or colleagues. Working in this way improves both your emotional wellbeing and your relationships with others.
I have a breadth of experience across many issues that bring people to therapy and I have some particular areas of interest and expertise:
- family dynamics
- child development and parenting
- pregnancy, the perinatal period, pregnancy loss and miscarriage, infertility, IVF and post-natal issues
- those affected by adoption
- young adults
Getting started:
When we meet for the first time, I will spend 50 minutes with you to talk about your primary worries and to explain how we would work together. I offer short term (around 6 weeks) or longer term work, depending on what you feel would benefit you. After our assessment meeting, sessions last for 50 minutes at a regular, agreed time each week.
If you would like to arrange an initial assessment, please do get in touch.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have over 15 years experience as a qualified therapist. In my private practice I work one to one with individual adult clients.
I also have extensive experience working in schools with children and families.
I am a BACP Accredited therapist and work according to BACP Ethical Guidelines. I trained at Birkbeck (General Certificate in Counselling) and Place2Be (PG Dip Counselling Children in Schools).
I have specialist experience and training supporting those who have experienced stillbirth, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, neonatal death and fertility issues. I have been a member of the Cradle Charity counselling team offering support for those impacted by early pregnancy loss and have been accredited by The Foundation for Infant Loss.
I hold a Certificate in Adoption Support Counselling from The Albany Centre (with Barnado’s) so can support over 18s with issues around adoption.
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
- Parenting
- Family relationships
- School related issues
- Parenting adolescents
- Parenting toddlers
- Parenting school-aged children
- Managing anxiety in children
- Infertility
- Miscarriage
- Still birth
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£65 a session.
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