About me
At times life can be difficult and we can feel overwhelmed, lost, helpless, distressed or even just a little bit sad. Are you wondering whether you are managing life with anxiety, phobias or stress. You can explore your issues and feelings with me, developing a greater understanding of them, without feeling any pressure or judgement. Together we can make changes that will help you manage those tricky emotions and find a solution that suits you. Counselling can help you to move forward and enhance your life experience. Its all about learning, healing, understanding and growth.
My practice has been highly recommended so if you are looking for a counsellor/therapist in Ely, near Cambridge, or are wanting to engage in psychotherapy and you are from the surrounding Cambridgeshire borders, you have reached the right place. My practice is in a private location and has parking available. I also work online using Zoom and provide telephone counselling services to anywhere in the UK.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and work to their code of ethics for good practice.
I receive supervision in line with BACP guidelines and am committed to training as part of my ongoing personal and professional development.
I am Qualified in the Integrative approach and at Level 5 in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) I work in an integrative way using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychodynamic and Humanistic theories. I have also completed a BPS Certificate in Supervision and achieved BACP Accredition
I managed the counselling service for a local Mind, a mental health charity, supervising a team of counsellors and psychotherapists in addition to my private practice and have gained a wide experience of mild, emotional issues to long term, enduring conditions.
I have a particular interest in phobias including Trypophobia and Emetophobia. I have also extensive eperience of working with Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety and Depression. The label isnt important to me, your progress is!
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Trypophobia - fear of holes
Emetophobia - vomit related fear
Ophidiophobia - fear of snakes
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 - £100.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I see clients for face to face counselling, short term and long term.
Sessions last 50 minutes and will be each week at a day and time agreed in advance.
Standard 50 minute Session £70-£100
Couples 50 minute Session £80-£110
Couples 90 minute Session £100 - £130
Counsellors in Training £60
Supervision
1 hour £70
1 1/2 hour £90
Counsellors in Training £60 / £75
I do undertake health insurance and EAP work however charge a higher rate due to additional administrative demands.
I have a limited number of concessionary sessions for keyworkers, people on a low income or trainee counsellors.
The first appointment will be an assessment session and this will enable us to decide if counselling can help you, and for you to see if you want to continue. If we decide we would like work together I would contract for initially 6 counselling sessions, which we will review and decide together if we want to extend or finish after the 6 sessions.
When I work
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Further information
Integrative Counselling & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
What is Integrative TherapyIntegrative counselling allows the therapist to explore a clients experience from a variety of different theoretical perspectives. An integrative counsellor will work with your experience and apply the appropriate theory and technique to suit you therapeutically because what works with one client won’t necessarily work with another. Working together we can use the insights and techniques of Person Centred Counselling , Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help you bring about the changes you want in your life.
What does CBT involve?Whilst consultations are essentially talking-therapy sessions, CBT goes beyond just talking and involves practical tasks, exercises and experiments to enhance understanding of the difficulty and to help bring about changes in feelings, beliefs, thinking and behaviour. It is an essential part of therapy that clients have an understanding of the process causing their difficulty, so that the tasks, exercises and experiments make sense within that context. For this reason therapist and client are, in essence collaborators in a problem-solving process. Clients, in discussion with the therapist, decide which tasks and exercise they feel ready to undertake. There may be times when it is important to look at previous history but this is not usually an extensive part of the process. Treatment is more usually grounded in present experience, tends to be de-mystifying and usually has a problem orientated focus.
