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I currently have availability.

You may be looking for some help to deal with anxiety, depression, stress, workplace or relationship issues or to help support you through a loss. 

I am a qualified and experienced Íø±¬ÃÅ Accredited Person Centred Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor with a practice based near Cheltenham. I provide counselling, psychotherapy and clinical supervision, currently online via TEAMS or by phone. 

Counselling can help you to:

Manage your anxiety and stress

Make changes in your life

Make sense of where you are

Identify the choices you have for change

Increase your self-awareness

Acquire more independence

Feel more confident and content

Face your future with more optimism

Counselling is at its most effective when approached with total honesty. Building a relationship and feeling safe with your counsellor is very important and all sessions are carried out in strict confidence. Boundaries are kept to protect both counsellor and client to ensure an ethical practice is followed, as laid down by the Íø±¬ÃÅ.

Counselling can help you to become more aware of how you react in certain situations and this in turn can give you the power to choose - to continue to act in that way or to do something differently. 

Having gained experience as an NHS counsellor, within primary care, I have a private practice and I also specialise in working with adult survivors of childhood abuse.

I have worked with the NHS IAPT Depression and Anxiety Service (DAS/Talkworks) in Exeter, providing Counselling for Depression (CfD) and clinical supervision for their Voluntary Counselling Service, including students on placement. I currently often work with doctors, both resident and qualified.

I provide supervision, both group and individual and am an Associate with Hammet Street Consultants, who specialise in providing psychotherapeutic support for the NHS.

I have experience of both short and long term therapy, working with general anxiety, depression, stress, difficulties in  relationships, physical health problems, loss and bereavement, coping with ageing and anxiety around death, difficulties with partner relationships, childhood abuse, lack of confidence and self esteem, loneliness and the impact of ill health. 

I practice within the Íø±¬ÃÅ ethical framework, including regular Clinical Supervision to help validate and develop my work. I am registered with the Information Commission.

Qualifications:

2015 Diploma in Clinical Supervision

2014 Accredited member Íø±¬ÃÅ

2013 BA (Hons) Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of Warwick

2011 Member of the Íø±¬ÃÅ

2011 FdA Personal Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of Warwick

2010 Working with survivors of sexual abuse, National Open College Network

2009 Certificate in Personal Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of Warwick

Further training:

Nutrition and Mental Health

Understanding dementia

ASIST - NHS Applied suicide intervention skills

Mindfulness based CBT

Hamlet on the couch - Shakespeare and psychotherapy

Counselling and psychotherapy with clients who misuse drugs and alcohol

Sexually speaking - overview of working with clients who have addiction issues, specifically sex addiction

Update on counselling and psychotherapy with clients who have been emotionally, physically or sexually abused

Brains, Bombs and Baddies - understanding post traumatic stress disorder and the long term effects on the brain in survivors of abuse and conflict.

Creative approaches to working with clients in Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy

COMBAT - Raising awareness in trafficking

Counselling and psychotherapy with clients who have psychological disorders and mental health issues

Practising existential psychotherapy

The theory and practice of mindfulness and compassion focused therapy

Suicide and suicidal ideation

What next?



If you would like to discuss any of this further, you can contact me, by phone or email.

We would usually have a quick chat on the phone to establish your objectives for counselling and discuss a way of working together, then we could meet online for an initial assessment session to see how we get on - and take it from there.