Counselling Therapies
Individual or Group therapy. In Person, Walk & Talk and Online
Integrative humanistic counselling for self-awareness & emotional healing
Integrative humanistic counselling focuses on psychological distress, such as depression, anxiety, stress, anger and trauma.
Before training and qualifying as a counsellor and therapist, I spent many years in corporate life. Indeed I continue to provide executive and performance coaching in several business settings. This enables me to stay close to and appreciate the impact of work-life balance, leadership and career pressures, role changes, redundancy, and retirement. I have also gained considerable experience as a counsellor with mental health charities MIND and MOSAC. The latter is dedicated to supporting families where sexual abuse has occurred.
As a result of my background and experience, I am committed to providing quality counselling that is professional, compassionate, and potent. I aim to create a safe and supportive place to explore what's important to you - how you feel, think, and experience your life. Working in collaboration with you brings you self-awareness, self-acceptance, and a new capacity to grow with life changes.
About my service
I work with adults, offering individual and group counselling for various issues and problems. I work in a way that values and respects all of your experiences. My purpose is to heighten awareness and identify new resources which help you tackle difficulties, including traumatic historical or recent events. While my focus is on what's happening for you now, I provide a safe environment should it be beneficial to you to explore past situations or relationships that may be contributing to current challenges.
I am aware that what is sometimes called the inner critic or inner judge can lead to distress or trigger feelings of shame. Together we build ways to disengage from these negative thought processes and move toward an alternative, positive, realistic, balanced outlook.
Practically, I meet clients weekly for 50 minutes, ideally for a minimum of twelve sessions. However, this part of working together will depend on our mutual agreement during our initial sessions.
Key Information
Type of session
In person, Online, Phone, workplace, home care home and hospice visits.
Types of client
Young people, Adults, Older adults, Groups.
Types of Client issues
Abortion, ADHD, Affairs and betrayals, Anger management, Anorexia nervosa
Antisocial personality disorder, Anxiety, Asperger's syndrome, Attachment disorder, Autism, Avoidant personality disorder.
Bereavement, Binge-eating disorder, Bipolar disorder, Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), Borderline personality disorder (BPD), Bulimia nervosa
Bullying.
Cancer, Career counselling, Carer support, Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
Dementia, Dependent personality disorder. Depression
Disabilities, Discrimination, Dissociation, Domestic abuse.
Eating disorders, Emotional abuse.
Family issues, Feeling sad.
Gambling, Gender dysphoria, Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
Health anxiety, Hearing voices, High sensitivity, Histrionic personality disorder, Hoarding.
Internet and social media addiction
Learning difficulties, Loneliness, Low self-confidence, Low self-esteem.
Menopause, Miscarriage, mid life crisis
Narcissistic personality disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Panic attacks, Paranoid personality disorder, Passive-aggressive behaviour
Personality disorders, Phobias, Physical abuse, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Postnatal depression, Psychosis.
Racism, Redundancy, Relationship problems.
Schizoid personality disorder, Schizophrenia, Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Separation and divorce, Sexual abuse, Smoking, Social anxiety, Spirituality, Stress, Suicidal thoughts
Tourette's syndrome, Trauma
Work-related stress.
Therapies
Offered:
Humanistic therapies
Behavioural therapy
Cognitive therapy
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Person-centred therapy
Gestalt therapy
Transactional analysis
Existential therapy
Integrative
Mindfulness
Solution focused brief therapy
Interpersonal therapy
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Walk and Talk Therapy
Fees
From £40.00 to £65.00
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Concessions offered for:
- Low income
- Keyworkers
- OAPs
- Students
- Trainee counsellors
- Unemployed
- Refugees
Additional Info
Sessions times are weekly for 50 minutes. My counselling session fees are:
- £40 per session for counselling students
- £60 per session for online and phone-based counselling
- £60 per session for a walk and talk-based counselling
- £65 per session for face-to-face counselling
Get in touch
You can get in touch by calling me any time, without obligation on 07717 447 627 or by filling out your details in my contact form here.
Once you have got in touch, I will contact you to discuss your enquiry and to arrange a consultation. Please be reassured that your contact with me will be in the very strictest of confidence.
The first step of reaching out is always the hardest, but once you have done it you are already halfway there.