When coming to counselling with me, I offer the space and time for you to explore your concerns in a safe, non-judgmental and confidential setting –a time for you.
Over the last couple of decades, I have gained experience and training to enable me to work with children, young people, adults and couples. As we grow and evolve in our lives, we can come across and be faced with challenges that may make us feel that we can’t move forward anymore, or make us feel isolated and alone, scared and unsafe or anxious and confused.
I have witnessed and experienced the transformational process and effects of working therapeutically.
Through my own person journey of self-reflection and awareness I have experienced many of the feelings that you yourself are feeling, even as you read this text you might be experiencing feelings of anxiety of what counselling will be like, apprehension of being vulnerable and of letting go, and of change. I speak from personal experience of knowing what that can feel like and can empathise with you and what you are experiencing.
I have a creative background and bring some of these skills into counselling sessions. It is as an invitation, and a knowing that sometimes having and using a different mediums to communicate with, can enable the therapeutic process to engage the brain and emotions differently than purely the spoken word.
The majority of my work is through my private practice, however, I have experience of working within different settings and organizations. I have worked within the educational settings, from Primary School to University level, within the charity sector, rehabilitation organisations, and have a broad experience and knowledge of mental health issues and neurodiversity.
While working with young people, I have acquired a good understanding of the complexities and challenges that young people have to deal with. This work has led me to explore and engage in the development of a mentoring and counselling for young people, offering an opportunity for them to explore issues such as, self-confidence, self-image, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol and how to develop a sense of self-respect and self-worth.
I value the therapeutic process and relationship, I believe that having someone to speak with and to be deeply heard, can have a profound, transformative and restorative impact on our lives.
Being a trained and qualified counsellor, I adhere to the Ethical Framework and Code of Good Practice of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy www.bacp.co.uk ) of which I am a Registered Member. I hold both public liability and professional indemnity insurance.