Choice and Respect
Counselling is a journey we take together, by focusing on what you feel is important. Your choices, thoughts and feelings will be received with care and understanding. Every race, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, physical and neurological difference is welcomed. Your confidentiality and privacy will always be protected.
I am a integrative, humanistic counsellor and work in a person centred way which means I create an environment where you feel accepted and valued. I use warmth, empathy and honesty to help you reconnect and strengthen your own ability to deal with life’s problems.
I am trained to use a variety of approaches to find the right way of working that suits you. This could be various types of talking therapy or working in a more creative way with objects, symbols, images and metaphor. Working with our unconscious is a way of understanding things we may not be aware of which can be helpful and healing.
25 years of Professional Experience and Qualifications
- Counsellor for a service based in Lymington worked with anxiety, depression, bereavement, loss, intense emotions, trauma, lack of motivation or confidence, stress, relationships and family dynamics.
- Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body: Level 2 Counselling Skills, Level 3 Counselling Studies, Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling.
- Supported service users on NHS mental health wards including eating disorders, forensic, intensive care, dementia, adolescent units and the Crisis Connections helpline.
- Behavioural support in the secondary education system.
- Previously qualified as a Dramatherapist, ran group sessions at the Maudsley Hospital in London.
- 10 years designing and delivering youth violence prevention projects within the criminal justice system in Southwark, London.
- Anger Management Diploma from the British Association of Anger Management. Delivered programmes and training in various education settings and statutory services.