About me
Accept Clients in York, Harrogate and Leeds area.
Thank you for taking your time exploring my profile. I am a HCPC registered dramatherapist and integrative therapist with extensive experience in Clinical, Educational, Prison, and Private Practices. I have been working with a wide range of approaches and models including Dramatherapy, Psychodrama, Psychodynamic therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy, Counselling, applied CBT, Single-session, Short-term intervention, and Coaching since 2002.
I work with individuals, couples and groups age 13+ and work with a variety of people and issues including Neurodiversity, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Trauma, Anxiety, ADHD, Relationship issues, Stress, and Relocation depression.
Apart from therapy work, I also offer support for specific purposes such as to gain self-confidence, improve self-esteem, develop social skills, develop coping skills, explore sexuality, regain strength, develop positive thinking, improve self-care and self-compassion and to nurture and improve your creativity. I have worked with many artists to support their mental health and wellbeing.
I am also a workshop designer and facilitator covering personal development, mental health, well-being, mindfulness and dramatherapy workshops.
I work in a non-judgemental manner and able to work with people of all cultures, races, religions, genders and sexual orientations.
Currently, I work at two lovely spaces in York, one at Millers Yard on Gillygate road in the city and another in a pretty village 20 minutes from the city.
Currently offering:
- Individual and Small group, both in-person and online therapy and counselling services
- Artists and people from creative industries wellbeing coach
- Personal Development workshops
- Dramatherapy workshops
- Mindfulness workshop for individuals and groups including carers, mental health professionals and students
- Couple and Relationship Therapy
- Relocation-related issues
- Mental Health Coaching for artists and professionals
Please do not hesitate to call if you need more information.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Indian Board of Alternative Medicines.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Dramatherapy, University of Hertfordshire.
- Mental Health First Aid
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training etc.
- Trauma-Informed Approach
- Couple therapy training
Some additional training
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, APT UK
- Understanding Dissociation and Trauma: Handling those in Distress(online)
- Complex Trauma Workshop, CTTN, UK
- Internal Family System Therapy (online), IFS Training, UK
- Working Therapeutically with People with Eating Disorders
- Spiritual Life Coach Training, Certified Course
- April 2023 - Present Relationship therapy
- National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists, UK
- ADHD training
- Safeguarding Children Level 1-3
- Safeguarding Adults Level 1-3
- HM Government Prevent Awareness course
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
To serve the significance of dramatherapy and its potential, I am also offering a wide range of dramatherapy workshops and sessions including training, individual and group dramatherapy. Aimed to help individuals and groups to fully reach their potential and awareness, find alternative ways to handle their problems and issues and have better understanding of self and others.
Perhaps you want to begin your process of self-healing with creativity. Dramatherapy can help you become aware and understand your feelings and emotions in a safe space and boundaries.
You may choose dramatherapy so you can use drama techniques, such as role-play and script play to rehearse your life activities where you might normally find them difficult or lack experience to do so. This area of work will suit people with different needs such as people with Autism and Asperger's syndrome.
Or you may have experienced more complex issues and need more than a talk therapy to support you. Dramatherapy can offer you more ways to work on your deeper issues or the unspoken.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
- For in person 1:1 and couple session: £45-£80 for an hour session
- For online individual and couple session: £45-£80 for an hour session
- For Groups: To Be Discussed further
When I work
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Weekdays: morning 9am-9pm Offer both online and face to face dramatherapy, psychotherapy and counselling.
Further information
I have experience working as a mental health practitioner at Universities.
Majority of mental health problems develop by the age of 24, university students are also in the age group at high risk of having mental health problems. My work is to offer individual counselling sessions or coaching sessions to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
My role involves supporting students on a 1:1 basis, helping them to overcome mental health issues and challenges they may encounter whilst studying in university.
