About me
I am a fully qualified and experienced counsellor and psychotherapist, and accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
My private practice is based in Cobham, Surrey, working one-to-one with adults and adolescents, offering short and long term therapy.
I have extensive experience working with adolescents. For many years I was a youth counsellor for Heads Together, an organisation providing counselling for young adults aged 14-24. I also provided counselling support to parents within highly vulnerable families.
Issues I regularly work with include:
- Anxiety and associated behaviours and symptoms
- Bereavement, grief and loss
- Depression
- Relationships - with self and others
- Family conflict and dysfunction
- Low self-esteem and confidence
- Trauma and PTSD
- Abuse - in its different forms
- Work related stress
- Personal crisis and breakdown
Common amongst teenage clients:
- Parental separation/divorce and change
- Self-harm and suicidal thoughts
- Anxiety, panic attacks
- Depression and low mood
- Bullying - on and offline
- Relationship problems
I work in accordance with the BACP's Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions (www.bacp.co.uk/ethics) and attend regular clinical supervision.
Specialist Training
- COVID-19 : Health Care
- COVID-19: Trauma and Coping
- COVID-19: Bereavement and Loss
- How to Help Children and Teens during COVID-19
- Addressing Bereavement after Traumatic Loss
- Treating Traumatised Clients
- Working with Survivors of Abuse: from coercive control through to physical and sexual violence
- Working with Disclosure of Rape and Sexual Abuse
- Mental Health First Aid for Schools and Colleges
- Working with Psychiatric Drugs
Qualifications
- First Class Honours degree (BA) in Integrative-Relational Counselling, Middlesex University
- Intermediate Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Working with Grief and Loss