About Me
Experience
I'm a person-centred therapist with a wide experience of client issues and I'm qualified to postgraduate level. In private practice and within organisations, I've worked with clients to provide the conditions for growth and change. My clients have come from many backgrounds and ethnicities, and I have worked with many clients who identify as LGBTQ+.
I'm a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and I am bound by its ethical guidelines.
My professional experience includes working with:
Anxiety
Anger
Bereavement and grief
Childhood abuse and neglect
Depression
Low self-esteem
Relationship difficulties
Shame and guilt
Self-harm
Suicidal thoughts
Training
MA in Clinical Counselling (with distinction) University of Chester (2019)
Diploma in Counselling Skills (2016) Shrewsbury College
Certificate in Counselling Skills (2015) Shrewsbury College
Depression: A Compassionate View University of Derby
Understanding Autism, Asperger's and ADHD University of Derby
Existential Group Psychotherapy and Counselling Society for Existential Analysis
Working with Mental Health Grosvenor Training
Approach to Psychotherapy and Counselling
Person-Centred Therapy is an evidence-based approach that is client led, relational, and exploratory. Its basis is a relationship that is respectful, authentic, and empathic, the conditions revealed by research as promoting therapeutic growth.
Attachment science has reinforced these findings and shown that, just as we are formed by our first relationships, later relationships can change our limiting assumptions about ourselves and the world.