About me

I am an experienced Integrative Therapist and Counselling Psychologist in training. I work with clients facing a wide range of life challenges and experiences. I offer one-to-one counselling sessions at my clinic based in Hertfordshire as well as working within specialist services within the NHS.

I believe that our psychological wellbeing is ever changing as we experience and respond to different life contexts and changing relationships in our families, work-life and social life. Sometimes we have a sense of something not being quite right in ourselves or feel tensions in our relationships. Sometimes we feel we’re not functioning in the world in the ways we’d like. We might feel angry, afraid, depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected from ourselves and others. I offer counselling to support you to work through these times.

How I Work

As an Integrative Therapist, I work from a relational perspective drawing on Intersubjectivity and Psychodynamic therapeutic traditions. For you this means:

Integrative - My in-depth, eight years of training in diverse well-researched aspects of counselling psychology allows me to draw on a range of resources and approaches to fit your goals for counselling.

Relational - I offer a safe confidential space where we can work together with the issues you bring to counselling. Forming a strong alliance allows us to work together as adults in a relationship whilst supporting you through what can be extremely difficult moments.

Intersubjective - I listen with respect and empathy, attempting to understand as closely as possible your experience of being in the world. As it is your experience not just of what is know but what is yet unknown that will enable us to understand the processes at play and the difference we can make.

Psychodynamic - I work beyond the here and now. Exploring patterns of thoughts, feelings, behaviour and sensation experienced across time and in different contexts. This can help us make sense of the issues you bring.

How to Begin Working with Me

Please use the contact details provided here to make an initial enquiry about working with me. I offer an initial free twenty-minute phone call to understand what you would like to bring to therapy. Sometimes it might be difficult to say exactly what that is: and that’s fine. After speaking we might arrange an initial meeting to explore your situation and see if we each feel we could work together. If we plan to go ahead together, we will agree on a regular weekly meeting time and proposed timescale for our work. Sometimes this work will be relatively contained over an agreed number of sessions. Sometimes we’ll set a more open-ended timescale. It depends on what you’d like to explore. We will review how the work is going on a regular basis.

Ethical Considerations

I follow the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s Ethical Framework and have Enhanced Clearance from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Training, qualifications & experience

Professional Memberships

LLB and LPC in Law from Newcastle and Northumbria University
MSc (Hons) in Psychology – University of Hertfordshire
Doctor of Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy - I am currently completing my thesis. This programme is approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as training towards Registered Counselling Psychologist status. It is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) as training towards Chartered Psychologist status: and by the UK Council for Psychotherapy towards registration as an Integrative Psychotherapist.

My Continuing Professional Development

In addition to professional qualifications, I regularly attend short courses to support develop my professional practice. These include:

Working with Complex PTSD , Traumatic Experiences and Childhood Trauma
Working with Eating Disorders
The Role of Psychotherapy in issues of Self, Identity

My Clinical Experience

I have extensive experience working with clients in a range of settings including:

Specialist Eating Disorders from Service NHS that specialises in complex and enduring presentations
Trauma informed practice within Grief and Bereavement Charity
Oncology and Haematology Service work with medical diagnosis, treatment and end of life
Long Term Counselling for more enduring life long issues within a Community based Charity run Counselling Services