About me
Do you feel consistently on edge and exhausted from trying to keep it together? Are your constant worries is turning into a daily panic? Are your thoughts, habits or relationships keeping you feeling stuck?
Therapy can't remove life challenges or erase the past but it can change how it lives in you and how you respond. When your feeling feel like chaos I can help you make sense of what is going on.
I am trained to help you cope with emotional issues which can affect people of all ages. You may be suffering from anxiety or depression, have relationship problems, low self-esteem, have been bereaved, be dealing with other difficult events, or just feeling sad.
With couples I can help you to work something together, maybe its IVF, death of a baby or a child or maybe there are communication issues and you have drifted apart after years of routine.
I can provide you with a chance to talk about your feelings and experiences in a safe place with someone who will listen and support you. I will seek to understand, not judge and will work with you to make sense and process your situation, and help you make changes that improve your life.
I have specific training in working with baby loss, fertility issues, anxiety and depression (including pre and post natal), parental burnout, couples and psychosexual therapy.
I specialise in working with issues around the following with individuals and couples:
- Anxiety - generalised anxiety disorder, panic attacks, OCD, social anxiety, health anxiety, work burnout etc
- Pre-Natal and Post-natal anxiety and depression
- All fertility Issues, including secondary infertility and moving forward without children
- All types of pregnancy loss
- Death of a baby
- Trying again or pregnant after loss and the anxiety that brings
- Donor Conception, surrogacy and adoption
- Birth Trauma (PTSD)
- Termination
- Parental Burnout
- Relationship difficulties/psychosexual therapy (I offer couples counselling)
- Family Issues
- Bereavement
- Trauma
- Illness including cancer and women's health issues
- Low self esteem and self worth, low self confidence and depression
- LGBTQ
I work with individuals and couples on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time period, with the aim of enabling you to enhance your life and to live it more fully.
I also have extensive experience working with the LGBTQIA + community.
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Training, qualifications & experience
Whilst qualifying, I studied different theoretical approaches to counselling which enables me to create an appropriate and integrated approach for each client. Further qualifications include: BA (hons), Certificate in Couples Counselling, Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
I have completed many training courses in Miscarriage and baby loss as well as fertility counselling. I also keep up to date with changes and advances in this area. I am a member of the British Infertility Counselling Association (BICA)
I have a diploma in working with children and young people.
I have a level 5 diploma in Psychosexual therapy and work with both individuals and couples of these issues.
I am a fully trained bereavement counsellor and have worked at Hackney Bereavement Centre/St Josephs Hospice. I was also a volunteer for Bliss, providing emotional support to families who have babies on the neonatal intensive care unit. I am also an active media volunteer for Fertility Network UK.
I am involved in the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology's 'Womens Voices' and attend regular meetings linked to women's health issues.
These include infertility, baby and pregnancy loss, perinatal health, domestic violence, menopause and women's cancers.
Previously I was a counsellor with CliniQ, an organisation who provide holistic therapies for trans and non binary folk. I was also a telephone counsellor for Childline and a Helpline Volunteer for the Terence Higgins Trust, who provides support for people affected by HIV/AIDS.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I am a specialist in working with all types of anxiety disorders. I also specialise and am very experienced in all types of bereavement but in particular pregnancy, baby and child loss, as well as the feeling of loss that comes with IVF.
I work with children and young people on a variety of issues, including anxiety.
I also work with couples on all issues including offering couples MOT. I also work on sexual issues with individuals and couples.
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I am currently charging £70 for individuals and £80 for couples and young people for a 50 minute session. I have reduced my fees to reflect the difficult times we are in.
This can be for an agreed time period or open ended, depending on the reasons for therapy.
I offer a free, initial telephone or online consultation.
When I work
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Further information
I can either work face to face in a dedicated therapy space in Walthamstow or online depending on location and your preference.
I believe that this is your space and you can use therapy for whatever you want to. Whether to help process a loss, a space for you to talk or more solution focused, such as looking for tips to help with anxiety.
