This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
We learn and grow primarily via our relationships and the same applies in counselling: it is the relationship of trust and safety created between therapist and client which enables change and growth. I am an integrative counsellor meaning I have various ways of working and will use whichever is best for you at any given time.
Everyone comes to counselling with different hopes, needs and expectations: you may need support with a particular situation, decision or relationship; you may feel stuck, repeating patterns over and over, finding it hard to break the cycle; you may constantly relive the past or worry about the future and want to be more present.
When recurring thoughts, feelings or behaviours are hard to manage, it can be because we learnt coping strategies in the past which are no longer useful. My role is to support and guide you as you explore whatever experience or situation brought you here and investigate what might be going on behind the scenes.
We tend to avoid difficult emotions because experiencing them is painful, but they usually make themselves known somehow. We can try to contain them in other ways, perhaps lose ourselves in work, alcohol, drugs, sex, shopping, cleaning, social media, etc. Some have the additional stress of an identity which is stigmatised and marginalised in our society.
Revisiting early relationships is invaluable. What did your parents, caregivers, school or culture teach you about life, about relationships? What did you come to believe about yourself? What did you have to do to fit in or feel loved? Are you still doing it now and what might it be costing you?
Training, qualifications & experience
- FdSc (Greenwich) Integrative Counselling, with distinction
- MA (Cantab) Social Anthropology
Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and bound by its code of ethics: https://www.bacp.co.uk/media/3103/bacp-ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions-2018.pdf
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
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
When I work
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Morning | |||||||
Afternoon | |||||||
Evening | |||||||
Night |
Further information
I have a special interest in:
Trauma and post-traumatic stress/anxiety
Depression and suicidality
Loss and bereavement
HSPs/high sensitivity
Boarding school syndrome