About me
Hello. Are you feeling anxious, exhausted or stuck? Perhaps you are navigating loss, trauma or have noticed you are repeating unhelpful patterns that are impacting your life and relationships. Whatever your reasons are for seeking counselling, I will take the time to listen and understand what is important to you. We can then decide the best way to move forward, at a pace that is right for you.
I am a qualified, neurodivergent-affirming counsellor. I work with a range of therapeutic approaches, adapting them to suit your individual needs and preferences.
My core training as a counsellor in Transactional Analysis (TA), can help us understand how early relationships, environment and experiences continue to impact choices, relationships and beliefs about ourselves, others and the world. These insights increase self-awareness into why you think, feel and behave as you do and support change and self-compassion.
Have you ever wondered why sometimes when you feel overwhelmed, your ability to think clearly, communicate or make decisions is affected?
When the nervous system responds to signals of danger, it moves into fight, flight or freeze responses and switches resources away from the brain to the body. When the danger passes this usually improves.
For many people who have had trauma, are neurodivergent or experience too many different stresses for too long, the nervous system can be more easily triggered. It can also take longer to rebalance or become chronically stuck in a sense of high alert, numbness or burnout.
If this is something that impacts your life, we can include somatic therapy. This can help you to understand and identify what nervous system state you are in. We can then explore a range of different techniques to discover what helps your system to rebalance.
Training, qualifications & experience
Counselling Qualifications:
Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy.
Level 6 Diploma in Counselling, (Transactional Analysis).
Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology
Certificate in Embodied T.A.
Certificate in Advanced Counselling Skills
I am an accredited member of the National Counselling Society and member of professional associations including UKATA, ITAA and EATA. My client work is professionally supervised.
Experience
My career has been centered around supporting people to make empowered choices and improve their well-being. I continually seek to increase and update my counselling skills and knowledge through research, training and learning from the lived experiences of clients.
I have volunteered as a bereavement counsellor at St. Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne and as a befriender at Langley Green Mental Health Hospital.
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 National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. 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
Fees
£50.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free, 20-minute consultation available by phone or online.
Discounts are offered to all NHS staff, teachers, police, emergency service and armed services personnel.
There is no requirement to prepay for blocks of sessions.
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