“I am not what happened to me. I am who I choose to become.”

— Carl Jung

Qualifications & Experience

Professional Qualifications

  • BACP Accreditation

  • BACP Certificate of Proficiency

  • CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

  • NCFE Level 3 Award in Counselling Skills and Theory

  • NCFE level 2 Award in Helping Skills

  • NCFE Level 1 Award in Interpersonal Skills

Further Training

As a qualified counsellor and an Accredited Member of the BACP I am committed to regularly enriching my professional knowledge. Some of my additional training includes:

  • L2 How to do Counselling Online: a Coronavirus Primer

  • Safeguarding and managing risk through digital media — a practitioner’s resource

  • A short guide to what every psychological therapist should know about working with psychiatric drugs

  • The River of Life: a person-centred response to grief 

  • Healing the wounds of trauma with Dr Gabor Mate

  • Working with trauma in a time of trauma with Carolyn Spring

  • Do we have a choice? An attachment perspective on choosing and not choosing

  • Sexuality & Gender Identity Awareness — OUTLINE

  • Unshame : Healing trauma based shame through psychotherapy - C. Spring

  • The Body Remembers - B. Rothschild

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - L. C. Gibson

  • Supporting male victims of sexual abuse —B Andrews &  D. Craig

  • Autism: Developing understanding and implementing practical approaches —Autism Hampshire

  • What works when counselling those affected by Autism, Asperger’s and ADHD

  • Recognising ADHD in adults - H. Brannon

  • Trauma: Healing from the bottom up —P. Levine

  • Working safely with your clients inner child —F. Townsend

  • Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - L. C. Gibson

  • The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion - C. K. Germer

  • Attachment in the Practice of Psychotherapy - D. Wallin

  • Addiction: a search for a secure base

  • Working with Trauma that has become stuck - C. Spring

  • Complex PTSD - P. Walker

Areas of Experience

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Social anxiety

  • Low Self-Esteem

  • Low Self-Confidence

  • Self-harm

  • Grief and loss

  • Anticipatory grief

  • Neurodiversity (Autism/ADHD)

  • Physical and Emotional Abuse

  • Emotional neglect

  • Trauma

  • Complex PTSD

  • Shame

  • Identity issues

  • Relationship issues

  • Family issues

  • Attachment issues

  • Bipolar disorder

  • Personality disorders

  • Lack of meaning and purpose

  • Life transitions

  • Suicidal thoughts

  • Panic attacks

  • Loneliness

  • Death anxiety

  • Existential concerns

 

Further Experience

In addition to my private practice, I have had extensive experience working as a counsellor at a local charity which provides psychotherapeutic counselling and vocational training to people who experience a wide range of common and more severe mental health difficulties.

Professional Membership

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

As an Accredited Member of the BACP I adhere to their Ethical Framework and their code of conduct, and I am committed to ongoing clinical supervision and continuing professional development.

GDPR Compliance

I comply with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and I am a member of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)

All clients’ personal information are kept securely, adhering to the (GDPR) 2018 requirements. A copy of my Privacy Notice is available on request.