About me
Thank you for visiting my page. I provide a safe supportive online space for you to talk and for us to consider together the issues that are important to you. Perhaps you are feeling anxious or depressed, learning to live with major health challenges or adjusting to loss? I aim to help you find your recovery, help you make sense of what’s happened so that you can discover a way forward through the changes, and life stages that are troubling you.
At our initial session, you can tell me about yourself. At the same time, you will be able to find out how I work and we can decide how to proceed. I offer both short term (four to eight sessions) and long term work. Appointments last for one hour after which we will agree a regular weekly time to meet.
Counselling can help you with short-term immediate issues of more recent origin. You might find benefit from sharing your story or learning some new coping skills or a different way of thinking about a situation.
Psychotherapy can help with issues that maybe you have been holding onto for a long time or things which have a major impact on your life and which need in-depth processing. Long-term therapy gives you the freedom to slow down and allow your issues to unravel at your own pace. Genuine and lasting change can take time to emerge.
I consider how we work together to be as important as that which we work on, with the nature of the therapeutic relationship between us acting as an arena for looking at your relationships in your life. I am interested in how our unconscious processes influence our life situations presenting us with conflict, pain and unhappiness. I am also interested in our relationships with ourselves, our health, with others and the impact we have upon each other and the wider world.
I am mainly influenced by my ongoing Transactional Analysis training. I also draw from a range of theoretical and practical approaches, including NLP, CBT and EMDR.
I work with adults of all ages, and with problems such as anxiety, panic, depression, difficulty in relationships, relationship breakdown and divorce; also low self esteem, trauma, childhood abuse and study/work stress and loss.
For individuals, our work together is tailored to meet your individual needs and, can help you to discover how experiences in younger life may have influenced current pain and distress; how they may have helped shape ways of coping which may now be hindering your progress in life. Some areas of your life may be fine but, how do you resolve the areas of your life that are not? Unresolved emotional and psychological issues may appear in the form of unexplained physical symptoms, unhelpful patterns of behaviour or difficulty in relationships.
For couples, our work can help each of you to explore your concerns, to make decisions about your life so together you can choose how you want to move forward.
My hope for you is that at some point in the future, when our work together is complete, maybe you will look back and think about how much you've changed, and how pleased you are that you booked that first appointment.
I look forward to welcoming you to my practice.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a counsellor/psychotherapist with 28 years experience working with individuals. I use a Relational frame and an Integrative approach, and have specialist training in working with relationship and couples.
After gaining my Diploma, I went on to work for eight years as a counsellor in the NHS and have 16 years experience working higher education supporting students.
In addition to my original Diploma qualification, I have recently completed four years advanced study in psychotherapy at Masters level and am a Trainee Transactional Analyst working towards certification (CTA).
I have undertaken specialist in depth training in working online.
I am a member of EATA (European Association of Transactional Analysis) and UKATA(United Kingdom Association for Transactional Analysis).
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
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
I also work with less well defined issues which might be characterised by the statement, "I'm not sure what's wrong but something is not right".
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
The fee for couples is £90.00.
