About me
I work with children, teenagers and young adults up to 25 years. I am an integrated therapist and to date I have approximately 1000 hours of experience counselling children and young people, supporting them with a wide range of issues, including: anxiety, emotionally based school avidance, panic attacks, low mood and depression, loss, disordered eating, gender identity difficulties, the challenges of being neurodiverse and how this can impact a young person's emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties related to recent or past trauma.
When I work with primary age children I also like to work with parents so that they can continue to support their child once counselling has ended. This assessment will always be made with a view to what is in a child's best interest and with respect to a child's right to confidentiality in the counselling process.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Foundation Degree in Counselling Children and Young People (July 2022)
- SEG Awards ABC Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills (January 2019)
- Advanced Safeguarding & Child Protection for Working in Private Practice (November 2023)
Shorter Training Awards
- Causes of hearing voices, dissociation and 'psychosis'. (24-4-25)
- Understanding the Adolescent Brain. ( ML Positive Therapy, 15-3-25)
- Causes of Emotionally-Based School Avoidance: helping children and young people heal. (CCMH, 13-2-25)
- Causes of chronic anxiety:phobias, OCD, panic attacks, insomnia. (CCMH, 30-1- 25)
- Causes of Mental Health Problems. (CCMH, 30-1-25)
- Working Therapeutically with Eating Disorders (NCTI: March 2024)
- When Words Won't Work: Supporting Children impacted by early trauma using co-regulation and the sensory systems. ( Beacon House: June 2024)
- Supporting CYP around Bereavement and Loss ( The Sunflower Network, Christina Enright, September 2024)
- Therapeutic Sand Tray Play with Children ( Wellspring Therapy & Training, November 2024)
I have currently accumulated 900 hours of experience counselling children and young people. I have worked in a primary school setting with children aged 7 and above , in two high schools with children and adolescents from Years 7 to 13 and I also work in private practice and for an organisation which provides counselling support to children and young people who have experience of childhood cancer or their siblings.
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Fees
From £50.00
Additional information
I offer either weekly or fortnightly sessions. I would be happy to offer a small discount for block bookings of sessions.
Further information
I work part-time offering sessions on a Monday and Tuesday evening between 4pm and 8pm. I also work in primary and secondary schools.
