About me
Perhaps life has thrown you a curve ball you're finding difficult to cope with. Maybe change is on the horizon and you're wondering how you will manage and what your new life will look and feel like. As an integrative counsellor, I'm here to listen so you are truly heard and understood. You may need help coming to terms with an upsetting event or support understanding relationships past and present. Perhaps there has been an ending causing feelings of grief, loss and loneliness. Sometimes we can't figure out why we feel the way we do, we just want it to stop. Talking things through with someone empathetic and supportive can help you realise your strengths, provide clarity and reduce feelings of distress.
The therapy I provide aims to help you make sense of past and present experiences, the right path for you now and to achieve change. You may feel stuck by self limiting beliefs. These beliefs are sometimes created by the expectations of others and sometimes from within. Understanding where your beliefs come from and if they are yours to own or helpful to you now, helps create stronger boundaries, reduces people pleasing, increases self-esteem and can lift our mood.
I create a safe, non-judgemental and confidential space to support you through challenging times that may feel overwhelming and to increase your confidence to live a life you choose for yourself.
When you are ready to share what's on your mind, I'm here to help. Together we can focus on reducing and managing distress, your strengths, regulating emotions, making sense of relationships past and present and how they may affect you today. We can also explore people pleasing, boundaries and change if desired, working towards the future you envisage. Together we can find a way forward that is right for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained with CONEL and qualified with a B A (Hons) counselling degree from Middlesex University. I also have an FdA in person centred counselling. I am trained in aspects of psychodynamic therapy, including attachment theory and have a level 6 equivalent short course in understanding autism, Asperger's and ADHD from Derby University. I also trained with Reading University in aspects of cognitive behavioural therapy - short course.
Further training for continued professional development includes:
Trauma, Patterns of The Past - Human Givens College.
Treating Chronic Pain - PESI UK
Loss and Bereavement Training for Counsellors and Therapists - Cruse.
Working With Loss and Grief - Deep Release Counselling Training.
Healing Toxic Shame - Mind Body Breakthrough.
Walk and Talk Therapy - CPCAB.
I am experienced in working with anxiety, depression, bereavement, relationships, narcissism and narcissistic abuse recovery, ADHD and a range of other issues.
I have specific interests; working with women going through all stages of the menopause. I also work towards creating an environment that removes barriers for men seeking help. I support the use of nutrition, nature and the outdoors to help manage and reduce mental health problems along with exercise.
I offer a free 15 - 30 minute telephone consultation.
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
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer concessionary rates to trainee counsellors and young people aged 18 - 25 if they are self-funding and in financial hardship. Please feel free to ask about concessions when making an enquiry or during the free 15 - 30 minute telephone consultation.
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Further information
I offer in person counselling in private rooms in Enfield Town within easy access from North London and the Hertfordshire and Essex borders. There is nearby pay and display parking. Enfield Town station (Weaver line) is three minutes walk and Enfield Chase station (the Hertford Loop Line) is ten minutes walk to the rooms. The W8 bus stops two minutes away. Other nearby bus routes are the 121, 191, 192, 231, 307 and 313.
I offer UK wide online counselling.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and apply their ethical framework to my work. I'm fully insured and DBS checked.
