About me
Welcome to my Counselling Directory page. Counselling provides a space to talk about your worries and concerns so that you can explore them further and seek to have a better understanding and/or greater awareness about the issues that you are facing. You can explore your emotions, thoughts and behaviours in a safe environment and seek to make changes or to understand these experiences further and to express your emotions in ways that support your self.
I aim to create a non-judgmental, accepting space in which you can discuss your emotions and thoughts to obtain more understanding, acceptance or change and you can discuss your experiences, emotions and thoughts in collaboration. You are unique and are the expert on you, so the therapeutic relationship will be key to working together to explore your experiences.
Counselling is confidential and I adhere to the BACP ethical framework. The approach, that I use, is integrative-this means that I use a range of approaches to explore and help you with the struggles that you may be facing using an integrative framework. The techniques that I use may be CBT, Humanistic or Psychodynamic depending on your presenting concerns and the course of action that you wish to take. Ultimately the counselling relationship is very important and this is discussed within the initial meeting where you can discuss your aims and concerns.
My professional counselling status is that I am registered with the BACP (British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists) and am eligible for accreditation. I adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework and have a degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Counselling.
I have attended numerous training courses (in a variety of approaches) and have provided counselling for adults, young people and families in various organisations and in private practice. Currently, counselling is offered within the Stockport area.
My approach values you-as an individual and your own individual life experiences and I endeavour to offer respect, honesty and empathy within the counselling process.
If you require counselling or have any questions regarding the service, or counselling generally, then please text me on 07507072204 or email
Training, qualifications & experience
My experience, as a counsellor, has spanned the previous 18 years. I have conducted counselling within a variety of organisations : Beacon, Oakwood House, Relate and Saneline. My counselling has included providing therapeutic support for clients of all ages and from diverse backgrounds.I have counselled young people and adults who have presented with relational difficulties, anxiety, eating issues, self-harm, anger management concerns, self-esteem, bullying, loss and bereavement, identity items, depression, trauma, emotional and psychological abuse histories, addiction, hopelessness, stress, behavioural concerns, phobias and obsessive compulsive behaviours.
Currently I offer private practice counselling appointments. I have provided personal therapy for student counsellors and supervise practicing counsellors. In my other professional role, I teach counselling modules within Higher Education and have a passion for counselling and psychotherapeutic support. In previous roles, I have used counselling skills and approaches within a range of non-counselling roles too- as a community outreach worker with children and families in crisis, as a Special Educational Needs co-ordinator, as a Primary school teacher and as a residential care worker with Looked After Children. These experiences enable me to connect and empathise with a wide range of issues and experiences.
Qualifications
MA Counselling and Post-graduate Diploma (University of Manchester)
- Level 1, 2 and 3 Counselling qualifications (Stockport College).
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (University of Bolton).
- PGCE Primary and QTS and Special Educational Needs qualifications (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Training
- Personality Development-A psychoanalytic Approach (Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy)
- Recognising and Preventing Female Genital Mutilation (Home Office)
- Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (University of Salford)
- Enhanced Psychotherapeutic Work with Eating Disordered Clients (North West Centre for Eating Disorders).
- Interventions for Mental Health in Every day Practice (University of Manchester and NHS)
- Creative Therapy Skills (Beacon Counselling)
- Loss and Endings (Beacon Counselling).
- The impact of Abuse and neglect (Trust for the Study of Adolescence).
- Cancer Awareness (Macmillan and Relate GMS).
- Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders (NWCED).
- I have attended various training events and CPD requirements.
Member organisations

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
Young People's counselling and support.
Identity issues
Family counselling and family concerns/issues.
Student counsellors
Supervision for counsellors or non-counsellors
Therapies offered
Fees
The initial session (introductory consultation) will cost £20 and this enables you to ask any questions related to counselling and the process of counselling. It is also an opportunity for you to consider whether counselling and my approach is suitable for you.
Subsequent sessions are priced at £40
Concessions offered for
Further information
If you wish to contact me then please telephone 07507-072204 or 0161-285-2600 (and leave a message-I will return your call) or contact me via email.