About me
I have worked with clients, helping them create positive change in their lives for over 25 years. I work with individuals, couples and family groups.
Alongside private practice I have worked for a charity for almost two decades. This has included managing a large and diverse staff team. My work with families and individuals has been wide ranging, including supporting those suffering abuse and trauma, including violence in their homes.
My specialist training with couples has enabled me to work with the sensitivities of clients’ intimate worlds and their historical emotional wounds alongside the practicalities of juggling busy lives.
My approach is integrative, meaning I am able to make use of the wide range of different skills I have gathered during my professional life. This has enabled me to help people struggling with the debilitating impact of living with anxiety and depression, as well as intrusive thoughts and OCD.
During our time together, it may be useful to consider the influence of your past experiences and think about the reasons you respond to certain situations the way you do. Exploring the effect of these influences in conjunction with thinking about practical strategies to create change, will enable you to be better able to move forward feeling positive. This will benefit both you and the important people around you.
You may find that you repeatedly find yourself in similar situations, frustrated at not seeming to understand why. Or perhaps, the same disagreements may keep cropping up in your relationships and despite your best efforts they re-emerge with vengeance again and again. Counselling with me can help you understand why this is happening and give you the tools to break unhelpful patterns and create the opportunity for more harmony within your relationships.
I believe that none of us are easily defined; that we are complex beings and don’t necessary fit into easy role definitions, particulary in this age of neurodivergence awareness. The counselling I offer respects difference and I commit to reflecting this diversity through the inclusive approach I adopt. Therefore, whatever sexuality, gender or relationship style you identify with, you will be made to feel welcome and accepted.
We can meet in person in my consultation room near Sudbury or online.
Getting In Touch
You are welcome to email or phone me in order to arrange a free 15 minute, no obligation telephone consultation. If you choose to proceed, we can mee person in my consultation room near Sudbury or online. Please be aware that if you contact me by email, my reply may go to your spam folder.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Psychodynamic counselling, MA
- Social Psychology, Level 3, Open University
- Certificate in Systemic Practice
- NVR – (Non-Violent Restraint)
- FLASH – (Families Learning About Self Harm)
- ECT- (Encounter-Centred Couples Therapy)
- Social Work, DipSW
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £70.00
