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I offer a warm, down-to-earth space to work through whatever you’re dealing with right now - long term or shorter term.

You might want to address a specific problem or concern. Or you may want to explore deeper issues and patterns, gaining a greater understanding of yourself and your relationships in the process. 

I work with adults age 18 and over.

How I can help

I aim to help you work through whatever’s worrying, upsetting, infuriating, confusing or blocking you in some way.

This could be linked to all sorts of things - your relationships, family, work, or your sense of self and self-esteem. It could be to do with feelings of sadness, depression, anxiety, resentment or anger.

It might also be about your stage of life, sense of meaning and purpose, and decisions about what's next.

You may not even be sure exactly what’s wrong – you just know something's not right and you want some support.

What to expect

Weekly therapy lets you freely explore your thoughts, feelings or symptoms, without judgment. It helps you see the wood for the trees.

It can give you new understanding and insight about yourself and your approach to life and relationships. This, in turn, creates the conditions for growth and change.

Exploring your past experiences, upbringing, and unconscious patterns and behaviour can also be useful in making sense of what's happening right here, right now.

Importantly, you can start to develop new, kinder, wiser ways of understanding and relating to yourself.

I offer a safe space to explore whatever's present. I'll also provide an appropriate level of challenge and a fresh perspective on what's going on for you.

Looking to the future, not just the past

Therapy can also help you work out what you want from life, and from yourself. If you're struggling to find meaning or purpose, it can move you towards this, and towards your untapped deeper potential. 

I work from the perspective that everyone has this capacity for growth, however difficult or stuck things might feel right now. 

I'm a Íø±¬ÃÅ-registered therapist, with a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling from the Psychosynthesis Trust, London.

About integrative and psychosynthesis counselling

My main approach is integrative and psychosynthesis based. Psychosynthesis takes an all-encompassing view of who we are: this means working with mind, body, feelings and soul as well as intuition and will.

Integrative therapy draws on different approaches and techniques, so we can find out what works for you.

Ways of working

Much of the time, we'll simply be talking. We'll also bring awareness to what's happening in your body, thoughts and feelings.

I may sometimes suggest things like drawing, inner dialogue or working with images and visualisation, if this feels helpful to you. However, the way we work together will always be tailored to your individual needs and preferences, and at a pace that suits you.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling – Psychosynthesis Trust (awarded by Middlesex University, accredited by Íø±¬ÃÅ and UKCP)
• Certificate in Psychosynthesis Foundations – Psychosynthesis Trust
• Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy – CCPE (Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy Education)
• MBCT (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy) foundational certificate – Oxford Mindfulness Centre
• Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) - teaching certificate
• Certificate in Polyvagal Theory in Action: Creating Safety and Connection with Trauma Clients

I'm also a training assistant at the Psychosynthesis Trust, London - a centre for personal/professional development and counselling.

Other areas of interest

Working with people seeking greater/renewed meaning in life, deepening self-esteem, mid-life crisis, menopause/peri-menopause, dreams, creativity, and exploring a sense of what might lie beyond the mundane, materialistic world.

Confidentiality

I’m committed to ensuring that your information is secure. I have procedures in place to safeguard and secure any information I collect.

Initial session

An initial session is a chance to explore what brings you to therapy and lets you ask any questions you might have about it.

It helps me understand more about you and how I might help you. It will let us both get a feel for whether and how we might work together. There’s no obligation to continue after this session.

Arrange a free phone call before booking an initial session

It's often helpful to have an informal 15-20 minute chat by phone before booking an initial session. I offer this for free. (Please mention that you'd like an introductory call when you complete the contact form.)

Weekly sessions

If we decide to work together, I'll ask you to commit to a minimum of 8 sessions initially. You'll have your own regular time, which will be the same each week. After that, we'll review how our work together is going and whether/how you’d like to continue. 

FEES

The initial session is at a reduced fee of £55.

After that, sessions are at my standard fee of:

- Individuals: Â£65 for online, or £75 for face-to-face
- Couples (or relational pairs): £85 for online, or £95 for face-to-face

Sessions are once a week, for 50 minutes.

I offer a warm, down-to-earth space to work through whatever you’re dealing with right now - long term or shorter term.

You might want to address a specific problem or concern. Or you may want to explore deeper issues and patterns, gaining a greater understanding of yourself and your relationships in the process.

I work with adults age 18 and over.

How I can help

I aim to help you work through whatever’s worrying, upsetting, infuriating, confusing or blocking you in some way.

This could be linked to all sorts of things - your relationships, family, work, or your sense of self and self-esteem. It could be to do with feelings of sadness, depression, anxiety, resentment or anger.

It might also be about your stage of life, sense of meaning and purpose, and decisions about what's next.

You may not even be sure exactly what’s wrong – you just know something's not right and you want some support.

What to expect

Weekly therapy lets you freely explore your thoughts, feelings or symptoms, without judgment. It helps you see the wood for the trees.

It can give you new understanding and insight about yourself and your approach to life and relationships. This, in turn, creates the conditions for growth and change.

Exploring your past experiences, upbringing, and unconscious patterns and behaviour can also be useful in making sense of what's happening right here, right now.

Importantly, you can start to develop new, kinder, wiser ways of understanding and relating to yourself.

I offer a safe space to explore whatever's present. I'll also provide an appropriate level of challenge and a fresh perspective on what's going on for you.

Looking to the future, not just the past

Therapy can also help you work out what you want from life, and from yourself. If you're struggling to find meaning or purpose, it can move you towards this, and towards your untapped deeper potential.

I work from the perspective that everyone has this capacity for growth, however difficult or stuck things might feel right now. 

I'm a Íø±¬ÃÅ-registered therapist, with a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling from the Psychosynthesis Trust, London.

About integrative and psychosynthesis counselling

My main approach is integrative and psychosynthesis based. Psychosynthesis takes an all-encompassing view of who we are: this means working with mind, body, feelings and soul as well as intuition and will.

Integrative therapy draws on different approaches and techniques, so we can find out what works for you.

Ways of working

Much of the time, we'll simply be talking. We'll also bring awareness to what's happening in your body, thoughts and feelings.

I may sometimes suggest things like drawing, inner dialogue or working with images and visualisation, if this feels helpful to you. However, the way we work together will always be tailored to your individual needs and preferences, and at a pace that suits you.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling – Psychosynthesis Trust (awarded by Middlesex University, accredited by Íø±¬ÃÅ and UKCP)
• Certificate in Psychosynthesis Foundations – Psychosynthesis Trust
• Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy – CCPE (Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy Education)
• MBCT (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy) foundational certificate – Oxford Mindfulness Centre
• Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) - teaching certificate
• Certificate in Polyvagal Theory in Action: Creating Safety and Connection with Trauma Clients

I'm also a training assistant at the Psychosynthesis Trust, London - a centre for personal/professional development and counselling.

Other areas of interest

Working with people seeking greater/renewed meaning in life, deepening self-esteem, 'mid-life crisis', menopause/peri-menopause, dreams, creativity and exploring a sense of what might lie beyond the mundane, materialistic world.

Confidentiality

I’m committed to ensuring that your information is secure. I have procedures in place to safeguard and secure any information I collect.

Initial session

An initial session is a chance to explore what brings you to therapy and lets you ask any questions you might have about it.

It helps me understand more about you and how I might help you. It will let us both get a feel for whether and how we might work together. There’s no obligation to continue after this session.

Arrange a free phone call before booking an initial session

It's often helpful to have an informal 15-20 minute chat by phone before booking an initial session. I offer this for free. (Please mention that you'd like an introductory call when you complete the contact form.)

Weekly sessions

If we decide to work together, I'll ask you to commit to a minimum of 8 sessions initially. You'll have your own regular time, which will be the same each week. After that, we'll review how our work together is going and whether/how you’d like to continue.

FEES

The initial session is at a reduced fee of £55.

After that, sessions are at my standard fee of:

- Individuals: £65 for online, or £75 for face-to-face

- Couples (or relational pairs): £85 for online, or £95 for face-to-face

Sessions are once a week, for 50 minutes.