About me
I am an experienced integrative psychotherapist and counsellor, registered with the UKCP. My training underpins and informs my work. It means I can apply learning from a number of different theories - humanistic, psychodynamic, existential, attachment, body and arts psychotherapy - in my work.
This sounds very cognitive, yet my training has also required me to explore and know myself deeply. Over the years of my practice, I have honed this dual learning into a style which enables me to bring something which is uniquely me as a therapist. It enables me to be responsive to you and the issues that you bring in ways which suit you, and reflect your uniqueness.
It is important to me to practice from a place of equality, and I hope it feels human, personal. I am passionate about my work - a passion fuelled from the daily witnessing of people again and again bringing courage in a practice of showing up, and sticking at, something which at times can be deeply painful. Yet the act of staying allows something, them, to be truly known. In the ‘doing’ of this there is healing and transformation.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience:
My career started as a social worker in the Criminal Justice System. I also have experience working in the charity sector, supporting single parents and people living with HIV.
As a therapist, I have wide ranging experience working with relationship issues, anxiety and work stress, depression, life crises, low self-esteem, sexuality, sexual difficulties, trauma, and feelings of shame and disconnect.
Over the years, both professionally and personally, I have become deeply interested in what it is to be human - How we make meaningful connections with others. How we find a place of belonging. How we find peace. How we connect with our aliveness. Can we let go and learn to live with uncertainty - bringing the chance to keep questioning, keep feeling, keep risking. In the alchemy of this there is the opportunity to find meaning, and ultimately, to live a richer, more fulfilled life.
Training and Qualifications:
- BA Combined Social Sciences (University of Keele)
- Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (University of Keele)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Arts (IATE/University of East London)
- Diploma Integrative Counselling (The Minster Centre)
- Advanced Diploma Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (The Minster Centre)
- MA Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (Middlesex University)
Next Steps:
Many of us have been hurt and bruised in different relationships in our life. We may have lost our shape in the boxes our family, society and culture have forced us into.
Finding a therapist and making a commitment to a relational journey which is as yet unknown, can feel daunting. Yet leading a life in which we allow ourselves to know more of ourselves, be more of ourselves, requires our fierce commitment.
If you take this next step, I will be alongside - we will swim in the same water - I will bring my expertise as a guide, asking the right questions, bringing tenderness where there has been judgment, looking from new angles and fundamentally allowing everything voice and a right to be.
Please contact me if you want to find out more about how it might feel for us to work together.
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
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Fees
£75.00 - £95.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Please contact me directly about my fees.
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Further information
I offer in person sessions in Central London and Brighton. If these locations do not work for you please ask about online availability.
I work both short and long term, sessions are typically 50 minutes and offered at the same time weekly.
