About me
Hi. I am a solution focused practitioner with over 20 years’ experience practising as a counsellor and coach, working with clients of all ages and backgrounds.
What will you notice that will tell you that therapy has been useful?
Solution focused brief therapy involves identifying and developing effective solutions to the issues clients are experiencing. In our sessions we will work in partnership to establish your best hopes for therapy. We will identify and explore how to make effective use of your personal strengths, experiences and resources through informed decision-making.
In my experience, effective management of feelings of anxiety and depression, and the impact of low self-esteem and self-confidence all figure highly as 'best hopes for therapy'.
'If it works, do more of it'.
Focusing on solutions does not involve downplaying problems. Solution-seeking shifts our focus, enabling us to reframe the challenges we face, fostering our resilience and generating positive momentum.
We are each the expert of our own life experiences and within us all lies the key to meaningful and sustainable change. You are already doing some of the solution. Together we will explore what works for you. We will develop a vivid description of the 'solution' as the means of achieving your best hopes.
As well as counselling I teach the solution focused approach to trainee counsellors, psychotherapists and related professions. I am also a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).
I firmly believe that no question is silly, so do feel free to email me for any further information that could help you decide if the solution focused approach is right for you.
'The more and more you listen, the more and more you hear; the more and more you hear, the deeper and deeper your understanding becomes'.
Training, qualifications & experience
Foundation course in SFBT 2002 BRIEF
Follow Up course ‘Staying Brief with Children and Families’ 2003 BRIEF
Solution Focused Leadership course 2004 BRIEF
Motivational Interviewing course 2006 Greenwich PCT
MA Solution Focused Brief Therapy 2007 Birmingham University
40 years practitioner experience (children & young people; asylum seekers and refugees; substance misuse; wellbeing)
20 years experience as a practising counsellor
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
Identity
Managing prejudice and discrimination
Reiki
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Individuals - £70.00/session
Concessions - £55.00/session
Couples & Families - £120.00/session
Groups and Families - variable
When I work
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Monday - Friday 10 - 4pm face to face and/or virtual/telephone
Monday- Friday 6 - 8pm virtual and/or telephone
Further information
I have trained hundreds of professionals in solution focused tools, techniques and approaches; presented solution focused workshops at national conferences and have had some of his solution focused research work published.
I currently teach counselling and psychotherapy trainees at The Awareness Centre.
Clients include:
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15billion
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Chrysaliscare
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London boroughs of Bexley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth, Newham, Kensington and Chelsea, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth
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Greenwich PCT
- Hackney Quest
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London East Connexions Partnership (LECP)
I am also a qualified Reiki practitioner.
