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Hello and welcome to my information page. I offer psychotherapy and counselling to adult individual and couples in both online video and face-to-face settings.
I accredited as a humanistic psychotherapist with the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) in 2003 via Spectrum Therapy and qualified in 2020 as an online psychotherapist having trained with the Online Therapy Institute as a Certified Cyber Therapist.
I work eclectically using a range of models and influences including gestalt, working relationally, formative psychology and polyvagal theory.
I have over twenty years’ experience in private practice as a psychotherapist, combined with a decade each of practicing in the NHS as a counsellor in a GP Surgery and as a Bereavement, Loss and Trauma counsellor in a hospital setting.
As a psychotherapist, I have the privilege of sharing in each client’s personal exploration to a more satisfying way of living. My motivation began, and continues to be, with my own experience as a client, my curiosity and determination to grow by defining and honouring my experience and my beliefs. So as a therapist I offer and share my curiosity, tenacity, attention, excitement, to support my clients to foster and honour their own experience and beliefs. In my experience, psychotherapy and counselling can have a significant impact on our lives, it offers an opportunity to develop our relationship to ourselves and to others in new and more fulfilling ways. I believe that our experience begins with our relationship to ourselves. So learning about how we experience ourselves emotionally, behaviourally and physically, informs us personally and professionally.
How I work
Therapy sessions are held on the Zoom video platform, they last for 50 minutes and we usually begin meeting weekly. The most important element is for us both to feel we can work together and this we establish in our initial conversation and session(s).
My aim is to provide a collaborative approach of curiosity, understanding, challenge and learning within the therapeutic relationship. Working together to support you to find your way through what brought you, as well as what may also immerge as we work.
As such the duration an individual remains in therapy is very personal to each client. It depends on what issue(s) bring them in the first place, as well as the depth with which they feel comfortable working. Some may feel they want a focused approach and feel satisfied after half a dozen sessions. Whilst others at a similar duration, may feel they have only just begun to explore and become clearer about what brought them and what they want. There is no right or wrong way, just what works for you.
Individuals and couples
The areas I work with include: low mood, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, bereavement, loss, trauma, stress, relationship issues, personal growth and more- this is not an exhaustive list so do get in touch if you would like to explore working with me.
Individuals 50 minutes £70
Couples 60 minutes £85
English