About me
At the heart of my practice is inclusivity. Inclusivity to all being something of an innate driving force at the helm of my intent behind training as a counsellor.
In other words, inclusivity is something I fight and advocate for. The meaning of the word is something I care and actively embrace deeply. This is something represented throughout the DNA of my approach to not just the professional service of counselling and therapy but to my everyone in life.
With this expressed, my practice is open and inclusive to members of all societal demographics, cross-sectionalities, faith groups, religions, ethnic diversities, members of the LGBTQ+ community and to people of all disabilities, both mental and physical.
My services include working with;
- Anxiety, stress, panic, and feeling overwhelmed
- Exploring neurodiversity, i.e understanding a diagnosis such as ADHD, ADD, Autism
- Low mood, depression, loneliness, or a lack of motivation
- Bereavement, loss, and significant life changes
- Relationship difficulties, family conflict, and communication issues
- Self-esteem, self-confidence, and negative self-image
- Identity, belonging, culture
- LGBTQ+ issues, sexuality, or gender-related questions
- Work stress, burnout, career uncertainty, and workplace challenges
- Life transitions, including becoming a parent, separation, moving, or retirement
- Difficult emotions such as anger, guilt, shame, or fear
- Feeling stuck, lost, or unsure about the future
- Past experiences that continue to affect you
- Building healthier boundaries and understanding your needs
- Personal growth, self-awareness, and making meaningful changes
- Coping with everyday pressures and improving emotional wellbeing
Training, qualifications & experience
I currently specialise in a therapeutic modality called Pluralistic Person-Centered Counselling.
This means I am able to offer an extended version of Person-Centered therapy through the term Pluralism. This will enable us to explore therapy not just through the conventional method of verbal communication but through avenues focused upon creativity, such as art therapy, which includes anything from clay therapy, emotion focused therapy, drawing and writing.
The term Pluralistic really brings life, options, and variation to the work we can do with each other. Pluralism is fundamentally designed at tailoring the therapeutic process to you and what your needs would ultimately benefit from most. Sometimes talking might not penetrate the ground, and so we are able to introduce creativity and play to the recipe, as this helps to bring to life your process should you wish.
Being trained to specialise in Person-Centred counselling means purely my work is pillared by a non-judgemental empathy and unconditional positive regard, blended with a soulful intention of guiding and aiding your journey to find your colour and light through verbal and creative communication.
I centre my work solely around honouring the focus and autonomy of what you ultimately desire, what you want, where you want to go, or what it is you want to make sense of and explore.
What feels essential to the facet of my role as your counsellor is ensuring that as I listen, I shall walk with, alongside you, and by your every word and felt feeling you share, a careful attentiveness in holding like a soulful Sheppard, the context of your journey's rhythm and direction. My intent is based upon encouraging and maintaining an optimal therapeutic climate for your process as so to ensure clarity through both your terrain of containment and safety.
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
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
While my fixed session price is £60, I also feel it a personal obligation to make counselling and therapy accessible while affordable for everyone, as I am a firm believer that everybody who strives for clarity in life can achieve it. I think wholeheartedly that people have a fundamental right to therapeutic counselling.
With this philosophy, I reserve one day per week offering a number of low-cost counselling places subject to availability. These sessions would be eligible to people on benefit income, people experiencing financial hardship, insecure work patterns, debt, caring responsibilities or sudden financial changes in circumstance.
Each low-cost counselling place will hold a maximum of 12 sessions.
These sessions would cost £30 as opposed to my normal rate of £60.
Further information
During our first meeting, we can use this space as a very warm exploratory session by way of introducing ourselves and by walking through any questions or queries you may have regarding the administrative aspects of our working relationship. I like to call this our foundational blueprint, and we can use this time however long you feel necessary.
In effect, our first session shall be a gentle one, one that will be used to really get to know each other, how I work, what I can offer, and to better understand your preferences regarding how it is you like to work going forward.
We will use this time to explore how you would like to work, the things you are open to, and the therapeutic approaches you connect with and may not connect with.
It will be a session in which we are able to understand how we can tailor the sessions we have together moving forward as a way to make counselling as optimal and progressive to your process as possible.
