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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am a qualified and accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with an additional private practice in Wing, Leighton Buzzard. I have over 20 years of experience working in the voluntary, NHS and private sectors. I have offered counselling and group work within alternative educational provisions as well as working in primary/secondary schools.
I currently work in the NHS Child Adolescent Mental Health services and with Relate offering therapy to couples and individuals. I have experience facilitating DBT skills groups to support parents and young people experiencing difficulties with self-harm, emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Throughout my training, I experienced a journey of self-discovery and growth. Working with clients i gained knowledge and experience being part of their therapeutic journey. Observing a client's courage, taught me the painful reality of mental health difficulties and how their internal reasoning and belief systems created self-destructive patterns of behaviour they often had little control over.
Many of my clients described these behaviour patterns over time as feeling themselves being chipped away in many areas of their lives. This affected their mental health which impacted upon their well-being, relationships, work, family and other areas of their lives
This influenced me further to attain additional qualifications using art, sand and play interventions as an addition to other methodologies of therapies. These interventions are useful to help clients access information often suppressed out of their conscious awareness. Once clients gain this awareness it offers them the possibility to create the changes that bring positive influences into their lives and an understanding of themselves in the world.
I believe, at the very core of our being, we all have the innate inner qualities that allows us to evolve and build resilience.
Training, qualifications & experience
My main source of work is offering a variety of therapeutic interventions to offer support to young people and the families with moderate to severe mental health challenges.
In private practice, I enjoy offering couples therapy. This therapeutic intervention supports the understanding of differences and helps couples to reconnect and express their feelings to each other in a safer environment. This process of awareness enables a couple to understand each other's concerns, whilst gaining validation of their individual experiences.
The building of trust between them teaches acceptance of each other and reduces the need to control which are familiar relational patterns within a couple relationship. Working through these differences together brings healthy change, understanding and intimacy back into their lives. Throughout the couple's work, couple's will be offered coping strategies and suggestions to implement at home.
Qualifications:
- M.A. in Child, adolescent and family psychotherapy
- Level 5 Integrative Counselling
- Couples relationship therapist
- Sand & Art therapist
- Psychosexual therapist in training Tavistock Relationships
- Supervisor
Services offered:
Consultation: Helps to consider options and decide the next steps and appropriate support.
Parent support: To help understand and respond to children and growing adolescents. Gain insight into the effects these relationships may have upon all members of the family unit and resolve conflict.
Family work: This work supports all family members and helps them compassionately understand and accept differences. It recognises the family as a functioning unit but consists of a number of individuals each with their own needs. Learning to be part of a team whilst recognising each individual's talents and qualities within that team.
Couples therapy: To support couples understanding each other and help them explore their differences allowing them to consider what they would like to be different. Working together builds mutual trust and respect in their relationship in addition to developing skills to compromise and work together as a team rather than adversaries.
Individual adolescents and adults: Supports the exploration of hopes, fears and expectations in a safe environment.It builds confidence, self-reliance and an ability to challenge life's difficulties. Whilst accepting that some situations cannot be changed we learn to recognise what can be achieved and how to tolerate and live with the disappointment of those that cant.
Single session therapy: This is an opportunity for those with busy schedules or immediate difficulty that need and immediate intervention.These issues work directly on the presenting concern, creates a plan to implement strategies that will make the difference to your life from the moment you leave the session.
Supervision: Individual or group supervision offered.
Retreat/2 day courses:
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.
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
£55.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- Individual £55
- Couples £70
- Special single session therapy 90 minutes £100
- Concessions & pro-bono
When I work
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Occasional day evenings available
Further information
First sessions are usually approximately one hour at the normal fee of £55 individuals £70 couple's.
In the first session we will hope to get an understanding of what you wish to work on, how this might be done, and if we feel that we can usefully work together. I encourage all clients to step back for reflection after the first session and contact me via text 24-48 hours after if they wish to continue.
What I can help with
Abuse, ADD / ADHD, Addictions, Anger management, Anxiety, Autism spectrum, Bereavement, Child related issues, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Cultural issues, Depression, Disability, Health related issues, Identity issues, Infertility, LGBTQ+ counselling, Loss, Menopause, Men's issues, Obsessions, OCD, Personal development, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy related issues, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Self-harm, Service veterans, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma, Vegan allied, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Art therapy, Behavioural, Brief therapy, CBT, Cognitive, Creative therapy, Eclectic, Emotionally focused therapy, Existential, Family therapy, Humanistic, Integrative, Interpersonal, Jungian, Person centred, Play therapy, Psychodynamic, Relational, Solution focused brief therapy, Systemic, Transactional analysis, Transpersonal
Clients I work with
Adults, Children, Couples, Families, Groups, Older adults, Organisations, Trainee, Young people
How I deliver therapy
Email therapy, Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online counselling, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone counselling, Text therapy, Time-limited
