About me
“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” Brené Brown
Life can have many challenges which require us to show up, but what if these challenges get the better of us? Challenges such as relationship break downs, bereavement, job loss, anxiety and depression. Sometimes it may be difficult to even know why we are not feeling OK. A lot of the times, we just ignore the feelings and hope they go away but what if there was an alternative?
What if 'showing up' meant understanding our difficulties and focusing on building our resilience?
We have 60-70,000 thoughts a day and 90% of them are re-occuring. If these thoughts are a result of low mood, anxiety and poor self-worth, imagine what stories and lies you are telling yourself on a daily basis.
My aim is to provide you with the space to increase your emotional intelligence and build on your strength and resilience.
Counselling and Psychotherapy is a really useful way of achieving just that.
I specialise in working with a range of issues, some of which include:
- Depression
- Anxiety / generalised anxiety disorder / panic
- Trauma
- Relationship issues
- Affairs and betrayals
- Family issues
- Stress
- Abuse
- Eating disorders
- Self Esteem
- Addictions
- Anger
- Bereavement / loss
- Identity issues
Training, qualifications & experience
Masters in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Post graduate diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Certificate in Counselling & Psychotherapy
2014 - onwards - Provided counselling to individuals in private practice (www.newinsightstherapy.com)
2015 - onwards - Providing counselling for people who have experienced sexual violence
2007 - 2015 - Provided counselling to individuals who have drug and alcohol issues and mental health problems
2001 - 2007 - Specialist in working with adolescents
Member organisations
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.

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership

Accredited Register Scheme
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
Cultural Issues, Issues around identity, honour based violence, pre and post bodybuilding competitions, anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, depression, post natal depression, relationship issues and addictions.
Therapies offered
Fees
Introductory telephone call - Free
Face to Face Sessions - £60 - £70 per session depending on area.
Further information
Can provide Skype / FaceTime sessions
Offer supervision