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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
What is counselling and how can it help me?
Counselling offers the opportunity to find clarity, understanding and experience change and transformation. Counselling offers a trusting relationship that supports you to explore fears and bring them into awareness safely and find clarity about issues that may be causing confusion and pain.
What happens in a counselling session?
I provide a confidential space for you to explore your inner world and increase your understanding of yourself and your relationships.
My role as a counsellor involves listening to what is going on underneath the surface, in order to understand emotional pain and repeating patterns. My experience informs me that a counselling relationship which is both supportive and challenging creates an environment where real change and transformation can take place.
Areas of interest
I have many years of experience of working at depth with people who seek a greater understanding of their feelings, relationships and way of being in the world. I am experienced in supporting people to find freedom from symptoms related to trauma.
I work with a wide range of clients, of different ages and backgrounds for short and long-term counselling. I am experienced in working with individuals from LGBTQ+ and BAME communities and welcome new enquiries from these groups.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training
I am a qualified integrative counsellor, using person-centred and psychodynamic approaches. My relational style puts the therapeutic relationship at the centre of our work together and the relationship itself creates a space to understand your experience of the world. I take an interest in your early life experiences and attachment style to understand your experiences in the present.
Counselling can be an effective treatment approach for a range of problems, including depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship or sexual difficulties, emotional constriction, fear of intimacy, or feelings of being stuck or held back.
Therapy offers a space where we can work together, to help you face whatever is holding you back and come to terms with the problems that you have encountered or which have been avoided. The aim is to understand the root cause of the difficulties, rather than simply treating the symptoms.
By helping you to understand yourself better, therapy can provide you with new skills, confidence and resilience. This enables you to connect authentically with yourself and others, and to develop your creative potential.
I have completed further studies in mindfulness and bodywork (yoga, meditation and breathing techniques) and this is reflected in my counselling approach, especially when working with bodily responses to trauma. I have many years’ experience working with addictions and trauma relating to abuse. I have also completed further training to work specifically with young people and couples.
Qualifications
- Counselling foundation at Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling, Bath
- Diploma in Counselling at the University of West of England, Bristol
- Diploma in Relational Mindfulness at the Karuna Institute, Devon
- Certificate in Relational Couples Therapy, Stroud
What kind of things do people talk about in counselling?
Here is a list of areas I regularly work with in my private practice. Your reasons for contacting me will be unique and we can have an initial conversation over the phone to see if you feel comfortable working with me.
- Low self-esteem and confidence
- Communication and relationship difficulties
- Childhood trauma
- Issues relating to identity
- Stress
- Relationship problems
- Anxiety and panic
- Low mood, depression and suicidal feelings
- Sexual abuse and trauma
- Anger
- Sexuality and sex
- Motherhood
- Addictions, specifically drug addiction
- Mental health diagnosis and treatment
- Issues relating to body image and eating
- Problems and changes at work
- Chronic health conditions
- Spirituality
My work with couples
Perhaps you are facing a crisis of some kind, starting out on a new journey together, facing changes or challenges or planning for a change you envisage in the future. Couples therapy can be an incredibly healing place to explore your individual patterns in relationships as well as exploring the unique connection created between you. Couples sessions can be used to understand each other more deeply and make changes to improve communication and connection. If you would like to arrange an initial session to find out more then please get in touch.
My work with young people
In my private practice, I offer counselling sessions for young people aged 18 and over. Counselling sessions for young people provide a chance to explore thoughts, feelings and behaviours which are causing distress and learn how to make changes to feel better. I have varied experiences of working with many issues that can affect life during adolescence. If you wish to discuss your own or your child's situation please get in touch.
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
I charge £65 for individuals and £85 for couples sessions.
Sessions last for 50 minutes.
How many sessions will I need?
I suggest we meet speak on the phone to talk through your needs. I look forward to hearing from you.
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