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I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist, Integrative Counsellor and CBT Therapist
I have over 22 years of counselling experience, specializing in individual counselling with adults
It has been an honour to provide counseling within the community including schools, prison service, health care, corporate settings and private practice. I am passionate about helping my clients cultivate awareness and clarity in their lives, and discover their inner wisdom and capacity for growth and healing.
At times, we can become stuck in old habits, patterns, behaviour and fears that no longer serve us and get in the way of authentic and meaninful relationships with ourselves and other people, keeping us from feeling inner peace and happiness.
Using a holistic, integrative and collaborative approach I will support you to skillfully navigate through the suffering and difficulties life throws at us, and connect your with your inner strengh and resilience for emotional, mental welbeing.
I look forward to connecting with you and supporting you with the next step in your healing journey.
Training, qualifications and experience:
- (Hons) Psych.
- Dip. Psych.
- Post Graduate Diploma Psychotherapy and Counselling (Regents College London).
- Adv.Dip. Existential Psychotherapy (Regents College London).
- PgD Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
- Member SEA ( Society for Existential Analysis).
- Diploma Person centred couples counselling.
- Diploma life coach.
- Diploma pet bereavement.
- Diploma spirtual counselling.
I work within the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy). I am closely bound, and accountable to the codes of ethics and practice. Copies an be obtained on request. You can read more about my experience here.
Training courses attended over the last few years:
- Pgd Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
- Certificate in counselling skills at London Guildhall University.
- Attachment and Loss (Bowlby).
- Counselling following rape and sexual abuse.
- On-going training with Rape Crisis.
- Counselling adult survivors of abuse (Rape Crisis).
- Conducting assessment interviews and in house training (MIND).
- Primary Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Training.
- Centre for Stress Management.
- Solution focused therapy.
- Building clients self esteem.
- Effective Group Work.
- Brief Anger Management.
- Skills for Managing Self Harm.
Personal and Professional Development as a Therapist:
- An adult private practice working from home.
- 10 years of personal Psychoanalytic Development.
- Experience working with young people aged 12- 16 within the school setting.
- Experience working with young people aged 16-25 for the Youth Information Service.
- Worked for a number of EAP companies.
- Worked as a CBT/Coach for Volkswagen in Milton Keynes.
- Worked as a nurse and geriatric counsellor with older adults.
I undertake regular supervision for my work subject to the code of ethics. I am also a professional member of the Society for Existential Analysis.
Areas of counselling I deal with
People come to me for help a wide range of issues. Here are a few of the more common difficulties that can be supported through counselling:
Abortion
Abuse
Affairs and betrayals
Anger management
Anxiety
Asperger's syndrome
Bereavement
Bipolar disorder
Bullying
Cancer
Career counselling
Carer support
Child counselling
Chronic fatigue
Dementia
Depression
Disabilities
Domestic abuse
Emotional abuse
Family issues
Feeling sad
Generalised anxiety
HIV/AIDS
Infertility
Learning difficulties
LGBTQ+ counselling
Loneliness
Low self-confidence
Low self-esteem
Menopause
Miscarriage
Physical abuse
Postnatal depression
Pregnancy and birth
Redundancy
Relationship problems
Self-harm
Separation and divorce
Sexual abuse
Spirituality
Stress
Suicidal thoughts
Trauma
Work-related stress
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Panic attacks - the best way to describe a panic attack is an intense short period of anxiety without any obvious explanation such as an external threat or medical reason. Panic attack symptoms can include breathlessness, faintness, nausea, chest pains, irregular heart beat, and feeling terrified. They are not life threatening but often the first time you experience one you think you are about to die or that you are experiencing a heart attack. The main trigger in panic attacks is often the fear that you are going to have a panic attacks. CBT offers ways of identifying the thinking patterns that are reinforcing this belief and causing you to panic. I will assist you in retraining yourself to cope with the irrational fear of panicking, so that you can begin to take control of the situation and enable you to increase your ability to cope with panic attacks if they happen and more importantly lessen your fears of them.
Emotional care - recovering from surgery, its normal to feel sad, angry and helpless.
My main aim to make therapy accessible to all, I am passionate about working with those who are experiencing life transitions associated with becoming older. I am also passionate about working with people at the end of their lives or who are terminally ill. I consider it vital that I maintain an open mind to the presence of gender, racial, cultural and socio-economic diversity and to be aware of unintentional bias that could greatly influence the counselling process.
What I offer
- Existential Psychotherapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Solutions Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
- Integrative Counselling
- Feminist counselling - attempts to address emotional distress as a result of psychological oppression.
- Geriatric counselling - helping older adults who are dealing with life transitions of aging such as illness, death of a spouse of family member, isolation, and anxiety.
If you would like to find out more about any of the above therapies that I can help with, please do get in touch with any questions. Face to face/online sessions are available.
Therapies
- Cognitive and behavioural therapies
- Humanistic therapies
- Behavioural therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Existential therapy
- Integrative
- Solution focused brief therapy
- Interpersonal therapy
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Sessions and fees
Session last for 50 mins and are normally on a weekly basis. My session fee is £60 per session.
I accept payment by online transfer.
If you need to cancel please give me 48 hours notice by text (07815770903) or email to avoid full cost of your session.
Soulbury Consulting Room
Leighton Buzzard
Consulting Room
Olney Consulting Room 1
Olney Consulting Room 2
Get in touch
I offer face to face and online therapy in Bedfordshire and Buckinginghamshire. I have clinics in Soulbury, Leighton Buzzard, and Olney.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how counselling works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment. This enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to counselling, whether it could be helpful for you and whether I am the right therapist to help.
You can also call me on 07815770903 if you would prefer to leave a message or speak to me first. I am happy to discuss any queries or questions you may have prior to arranging an initial appointment.
All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential and uses secure phone and email services.
Experience
A BA Honours degree in Psychology was followed by a seven year training as a women centred counsellor working with women survivors of rape sexual assault and sexual abuse. In 2001 I decided to embark on a professional training at Regent's College in London. reading Integrative Psychotherapy at postgraduate/MA level graduating in 2004. A year later I trained as an Existential psychotherapist at Regent's College graduating in 2007.
I am a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist at PgD level and a couples counsellor in training. My first three years as a counsellor were spent working with women survivors of domestic violence. In addition to this I worked within the prison setting as a prison counsellor. During the two years of my Advanced Diploma I worked for MIND. The work was varied and included working with client's with mental health issues, anxiety, depression, bereavement, male and female domestic violence and sexual abuse.
I have worked with men and women who were experiencing infertility problems at a private clinic. I have also worked as a school counsellor with young people aged 13-16 and young people aged 16-25 in the community. In addition to this I have worked as a nurse and a geriatric counsellor for older adults. I also work as a counsellor for a number of organizations providing work place counselling and have a private practice in Soulbury and leighton Buzzard.
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