About me
I am an integrative counsellor with a passion for helping my clients grow in understanding of themselves and others, working together with them to bring about healing and change. I place my clients at the centre of their therapy, giving them autonomy and choice. I see my role as journeying with my clients as they bring the issues that are troubling them. We will work together to find answers and solutions. My focus throughout is on helping my clients build self-understanding, self-acceptance and self-compassion, key ingredients of change.
I seek to use different counselling approaches, like tools in a toolkit, that best fit with each individual. I encourage my client to lay out their issues and difficulties, rather like pieces of a jigsaw, helping them to place the pieces the right way up and fit them back together again in a new way. I believe that the relationship between counsellor and client is the fundamental ingredient for change and growth to take place.
I am a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and my counselling is guided by the BACP ethical framework for good practice. I am supported and guided in my work with clients through monthly supervision.
I offer long-term and short-term counselling to adults of any age. I work face to face, online using Teams or WhatsApp, and over the telephone, building in regular reviews to check out the helpfulness of the therapy for each client.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a counselling degree through Waverley Abbey College in conjunction with Middlesex University. I have over four years experience of counselling survivors of sexual abuse and domestic abuse as part of a charity organisation.
I believe working together collaboratively with my clients is very important, enabling them to choose what feels most helpful for them. I am not the expert. They know themselves best! I give plenty of time for discovering a client’s hopes and goals for their counselling, empowering them to have a choice on their journey of recovery.
I understand the relationship between counsellor and client to be the fundamental ingredient for change and growth to take place, so we will take time to make sure I am the right counsellor for you. I offer a mix of different ways of working in the counselling room, being guided by what feels most helpful to each client. I work creatively, where this feels beneficial, to help uncover and understand troubling feelings, thoughts and behaviours, seeking to make sense of them.
I work with individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, and have considerable experience working with clients dealing with the impact of childhood trauma. I work in a trauma-informed way, giving my clients the tools they need to make their journey of recovery safely. I have experience working with post-traumatic stress, loss and bereavement, narcissistic relationships, and individuals living with borderline personality disorder.
As a hospice nurse in an earlier career, I have experience of supporting individuals and their families coping with life-limiting illness; struggling with loss, grief and bereavement.
Being involved in a pastoral care role in my local church and community has given me experience in supporting those struggling with issues of faith and spirituality.
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
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Fees
£50.00 per session
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Additional information
I offer a fee of £35 to students, and concessionary rates to those on a low income - to be discussed at our first meeting.
I appreciate receiving my fee via bank transfer, where possible, within 24 hours of the counselling session. Thank you.
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Further information
I hold a Christian faith, seeing every individual as unique and of infinite worth and value. As a counsellor, I work inclusively with everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, faith, ethnicity, or ability. I strive to provide a safe, confidential, affirming, and non-judgemental space to share what is most important - to be heard deeply, with full acceptance and understanding. I see my role of counsellor to be one of empowering my clients to discover their capacity to find the answers they’re searching for.
