About me
Welcome
I am a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist, with over 18 years of experience in mental health, working with both young people and adults. I offer a secure, nurturing space, in which together, we can explore your thoughts and feelings, conscious and not so conscious processes, relationships, fears, dreams, hopes, and much more besides.
Why Therapy?
People come to therapy for a variety of reasons—whether it’s facing uncertainty, or anxiety, navigating life transitions, or seeking deeper self-understanding. Therapy can be an opportunity for you to experience and express your emotions, and, if you so desire, to learn strategies for emotional regulation. It can offer an opportunity to be seen, and heard, to work out what is holding you back in life, and to develop the tools for navigating your path with greater resilience.
I believe that within you lies the wisdom and strength needed to overcome the challenges you face; sometimes, we simply need a space to find our own answers within ourselves. A supportive therapeutic relationship can help in bringing about such clarity; we are, after all, deeply relational beings, and our mental and emotional well-being is inescapably influenced by the contexts and people around us.
Our earliest relationships are particularly significant. They set the stage for the ways we relate to others throughout our lives. Difficulties in relationships with family, friends, or partners can have a long-lasting impact on our emotional health, and therapy can be a powerful tool for addressing these foundational patterns, and exploring the ways in which relationships with others help you, and empower you, or hinder you, and disempower you. An important part of therapy can be setting ourselves free from relational patterns we may have needed to survive in childhood, but which may have become self-defeating, in adulthood. This can involve a focus not only on our relationships with others, but also on our relationships with self-limiting and repressed parts of ourselves, including self-critical, self-shaming, protective, creative, playful, and joyful parts.
What to Expect
Our journey begins with an initial phone consultation. During this call, you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions and share what has brought you to therapy, whether for yourself or for someone you care about. Afterwards, we’ll schedule our first session. Sessions are 50 minutes in length and typically take place weekly at the same time, either face-to-face or online, depending on your preference.
Work with Adolescents and Parents
In addition to my work with adults, I have over 15 years of experience supporting adolescents, aged 11–18, and their families. Adolescence is a time of profound changes, marked by oftentimes dramatic emotional and social shifts. Young people and parents can face unique challenges during this stage, often compounded by academic pressures, and the sense of an uncertain future. Engaging in therapy during this time can be valuable, commonly providing young people with tools to understand themselves more clearly, and navigate life's challenges more effectively. The insights gained in therapy can lay a foundation for emotional well-being that lasts into adulthood. In my work with young people I might use objects and creative resources to aid self expression and externalisation of internal processes.
Additional Areas of Specialization
I am passionate about working with those that have experienced times of having power and control over them, whether this be in a personal relationship, religion setting, family dynamic or work situation. Coercive control is everywhere in our world and I seek to empower my clients and can walk alongside helping the journey back to finding your own mind.
I am very interested in the complex systems we find ourselves in and supporting those who have experienced controlling relational dynamics. Extending my expertise into the dynamics present in coercive relationships is of specific interest to me, where children and young people are also affected by these patterns, that often occur inter-generationally.
I have a keen interest in working with clients who may have gone to boarding school also, an intrinsic part to making ones self image in the world.
I also presently work in clinical trials and research into psychedelic medicines in the UK as a Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapist.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Foundation in Systemic Family Constellations - Centre of Systemic Family Constellations
- Diploma in Psychotherapy in Community - The Philadelphia Association
- Depth Relational Process - Institute of Psychedelic Therapy.
- Trauma Pathway - Betsy De Thierry
- Understanding Female Neuroscience, Neuroscience Academy
- Attachment Narrative Therapy - Bowlby Centre, Working with Imagery and CBT, OCTC
- Working with Young People and Their Families using CBT, OCTC
- Advanced Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CPCAB
- Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling CPCAB
- Certificate in Counselling Studies CPCAB
- Certificate in Counselling Skills CPCAB
- PG Certificate in Psychology
- Aspects of Bereavement Course
- Creative Ways to Help Young People and their Families
I have worked for over 15 years as a school counsellor supporting young people and staff and have worked in mental health for over 15 years.
I am registered with Bupa, AXA and other major healthcare providers.
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
£80.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fee is £80 for a 50 minute session.
At least 48 hours cancellation notice is required, if less, the full fee will be payable.
I offer an initial telephone consultation for you to ask me any questions, and get an idea of if you think we could work together.
It's best when sessions are weekly at a pre-arranged time. Options to pay upfront for a block per month.
When I work
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In person and online.
