About me
I start from the principle that we all have a huge capacity for love, joy and creativity, but that the channels get clogged up, as it were, by unhealed wounds and unresolved traumas. These effects can build up if they’re not dealt with, so that our thoughts become distorted as well, and it becomes harder and harder to find our way out of the maze without sympathetic professional help.
I know how hard it can be to reach out for help, especially when you’re at a low ebb already. It can be hard to believe that anyone will really understand your situation, and you may be feeling a little foolish, or ashamed, that you don’t seem to be able to sort yourself out. You’ll find in me a sympathetic ear, with no judgements of any kind about the challenges you’re facing. I know from long experience that ultimately you’ll come out of this situation a wiser and a stronger person, and I look forward to working with you to enable that to happen.
Training, qualifications & experience
As well as my Level 7 qualifications in psychodynamic and psychospiritual counselling, I’ve been trained in many other kinds of personal development work, including bodywork, psychodrama, Internal Family Systems, and couples counselling. I've been working as a counsellor since 2014.
You can be sure that, whatever difficult places we might go to in our work together, I’ve been there before in my own therapy journey and training. This helps to make me a safe and trustworthy guide for your journey.
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.
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 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I charge £60 per 50-minute session for individuals and £90 for couples, payable online or by card. Please get in touch for further information, for details of availability, or to make a booking
When I work
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Further information
After you contact me I'll usually suggest a free 20-minute phone call to start to explore your situation and your needs.
Then, if you feel you'd like to, we’ll arrange a full-length initial session, After that, if you feel it's what you're looking for, we’ll contract for a further five sessions. After that you can continue as long as you like on a completely open-ended basis.
Sessions can be online using Zoom or WhatsApp, or face-to-face, or on the phone, as you prefer. I have a quiet and private consulting-room in my flat in Dyke Road Drive, Brighton - near many bus routes, and with plenty of on-street parking. I also see clients at the Open Door Clinic in Lewes,
