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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am a professional counsellor working with individuals and couples of all genders struggling with issues related to every-day life. Although I run a general practice open to a wide variety of concerns that bring people to counselling, I have additional experience in the following areas:
- Depression/low mood
- Anxiety
- Body image, food, exercise distress
- Eating Disorder recovery
- Sense of direction, meaning or purpose
- Relationship difficulties
- Compulsive behaviours & addictive processes
- Intrusive thoughts
- Difficulties related to early adulthood
It often goes unacknowledged that modern day living and loving is challenging and complex. There are times when we find ourselves in situations or experiencing thoughts, feelings or behaviours that we don't understand or know how to deal with. We can also hit roadblocks in our couple relationships that feel impossible to get around.
I can provide sensitive and compassionate counselling to help you navigate your way through these difficult times, overcome obstacles, and deal with the daily struggles of life.
Through working together, I will assist you in finding a way to connect with the meaning that may be found through your experiences and the potential that is innate within you and your relationships, to help bring you closer to the growth and positive change necessary to maintain a fulfilling life, whether that is as an individual or as a couple.
Training, qualifications & experience
Alongside my current counselling practice where I see individuals and couples, I work as an eating disorder therapist within a private day clinic and have previously provided peer support within NHS eating disorder services. I have experience of facilitating therapeutic and supportive groups, for those with eating disorders and also for emotional difficulties, including self-harm and suicidal ideation. I have additionally worked as a yoga teacher, including teaching recovering addicts in a prison. I therefore value the development of a compassionate mind-body connection. I am an approved therapist with Anxiety UK
I have completed the following qualifications/certificates:
- Post-Graduate Diploma Psychosynthesis Counselling (2019)
- Advanced Diploma Integrative Arts Therapy (2012)
- BSc Psychology (2007)
- Certificate in Practitioner Skills for Eating Disorders (2019)
Reflecting my training, qualifications and experience, I work in a way that is transpersonal and integrative. This means that I will draw from different psychological approaches in order to help with exploring in depth the issues that are brought, whilst encouraging you, as an individual or as a couple, to consider that there is more to you or your relationship than these issues. This often involves looking at past and present experiences in addition to future aspirations. I may incorporate exploration of life meaning and purpose, where appropriate, viewing whatever difficulties you are experiencing as a manifestation of this.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 per session
