About me
Do you keep finding yourself in relationships or situations that leave you questioning yourself? Do you feel like you have lost yourself somewhere along the way? Perhaps you know you want things to change, but have no idea how to break the patterns that keep pulling you back. If it feels like everyone else has a manual for life while you are going around in ever-decreasing circles, counselling can help you understand why and begin to do things differently.
We live in a world where social media and AI can give us a greater understanding of our own and other people's relational patterns, but not necessarily the resources to understand how to work with them. Exploring your attachment style, for example, can be an important part of understanding yourself and your relationships. Together, we can delve into the patterns they may create, helping you develop greater self-awareness, emotional security, and healthier ways of connecting with others.
I offer a warm, confidential, and non-judgmental counselling space where you can safely explore what you are going through at your own pace. I understand how frightening, draining, and isolating it can feel to sit with overwhelming emotions, anxiety, panic, stress or low mood, especially when it feels hard to share with family or friends.
I work with anxiety, neurodiversity, emotional abuse, bereavement, grief, loss, betrayal, separation, divorce, low self-esteem, low self-confidence, and life transitions. I also support clients experiencing isolation, loss of connection, ADHD or menopause related challenges, and mid-life difficulties.
I have a particular passion for supporting those healing from emotionally abusive, coercive, narcissistic, manipulative, or toxic relationships. I also work with individuals who recognise unhealthy patterns in their own behaviour and want to make meaningful change.
Whether you are clear about what you want to explore or feel confused and uncertain, both are completely okay. Our first session is an initial consultation where we look at what brings you to therapy and what you would like to achieve. If it feels right, we can then work together on a short or long-term basis.
Sharing personal thoughts for the first time can feel daunting, but you do not have to face it alone. I offer a safe space for healing, growth, empowerment, and personal development.
Life can change with a single decision. Email me today and we can start moving things forward.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified online counsellor.
I provide counselling services for the Electrical Industries Charity (EIC)
As a member of the PESI UK CPD Hub I am able to continuously keep up to date with their latest training presentations.
I am committed to furthering my continued professional development through reading, supervision, attending CPD events and undertaking online CPD.
I have completed UKCP Covid-19 Online Working Guidance
Some recent training I have completed includes
- Treating Survivors of Coercive Control in Narcissistic Abuse
- Rebuild Clients’ Healthy Instincts and Restore Their Trust in Themselves after Manipulation
- How Attachment Trauma Shapes Our Personality
- Undoing Shame: The Key to Trauma Healing
- Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Certification Training inc. Embodying Emotions
- An Integrative Approach to Menopause
- Attachment - Cradle to Grave: Intimate and Interactive Conversations
- ADHD Certification Course - Strength-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD
- Men and Therapy - Key Approaches to Working with Men
- Trauma, Affect Dysregulation and Shame
- Treating Trauma and Complex PTSD
- Toxic Shame in Clinical Practice: Help Clients Release Shame, Get Unstuck and Improve Treatment Outcomes
- Gaslighting: Help Clients Escape and Rebuild from a Narcissist's Emotional Abuse - Stephanie Sarkis
- Narcissism and Intimacy: Coming Down from Grandiosity and Up from Shame - Terry Real - PESI UK
- New Rules for Treating Trauma: Integrating Neuroscience for Resilience, Connection and Post-Traumatic Growth
- Attachment in Adults: How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships
- Building Trust, Love and Loyalty in Relationships with John Gottman, Ph.D. & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D. - PESI UK
- Making Relationships Work with John Gottman, Ph.D. & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D.
- Narcissistic Relationships, Emotional Abuse & Gaslighting: Treating and Empowering Survivors of Relational Trauma - PESI UK
- Emotional Abusive Behaviours and A Closer Look at Gaslighting: Clinical Tools to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Personal Power - PESI UK
- Narcissism, Infidelity, and Trauma - Esther Perel and Terry Real
- Complex PTSD Clinical Workshop - Arielle Schwartz
- Social Anxiety: Step by Step Techniques to Overcome Fear, Shyness & Social Phobia - PESI UK
- The Science of Trust and Betrayal - John Gottman Ph.D
- Me, Myself and I - Experiencing the World of the Inner Child - Samantha Lee
- Trauma and Relationships: When Intimacy Feels Unsafe - Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
- Qualification in Online and Telephone Counselling - Counselling Tutor (80 hours professional development - accredited by ACTO)
- Dr Bessel van der Kolk's Trauma Treatment Mastery Course
- Heal Your Heart After Grief - Help your clients find peace after break-ups, divorce, death and other losses - David Kessler
- The Challenge of Uncertainty with Ernesto Spinelli
- Working with Erotic Transference and Countertransference - David Mann
- GDPR and BACP Ethical Framework Review
- Human Toolbox Practitioner Training - Lindy Wheeler
- Overview of UK Attachment and Trauma Congress
- Personal Insights Into Attachment Theory - Richard Bowlby
Qualifications
- BSc in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling from Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling from Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Diploma in Integrative Counselling from Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Certificate in Integrative Counselling from Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy
I have previously worked as a volunteer counsellor at:-
- Life-Force Centre for Natural Well-Being in Colchester
- Mentis Tree CIC in Bury St Edmunds
I am a Registered Member of UKCP.
I am a Human Toolbox Authorised Practitioner
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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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Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
My fee is £65 per 60 minute weekly session which can be paid by BACS payment or by credit card prior to the session. The first appointment will be an initial consultation session to make sure we both feel we are good fit to work together.
If you would prefer a shorter 30 minute initial consultation session, this will be charged at £40.
Enquiries will be responded to as quickly as possible within my office hours - between Mondays and Thursdays.
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Further information
I offer face to face sessions from my home in Needham Market
Online sessions available enabling sessions to take place from anywhere in the UK.
I currently have availability between 10am and 6.30pm (final appointment is at 5.30pm).
