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Time for you. A regular safe space to connect, feel really heard and understood. To improve your personal situation, no matter how hard, hopeless, confusing and awkward that might currently seem.

You may feel sad, unhappy; have stress, anxiety or depression; are more emotional than normal; are having difficulty with anger; relationship or family issues; feel hopeless; lonely; empty; have low self-esteem, a sense of poor mental health, or just don't feel like 'yourself', or how you want to be.

I work with adults and young people who'd like to move forward more contentedly in their life, and cope better. I provide child counselling, from the age of 9 years old upward.

Your capacity and options at points in life can be challenging. You may think that others seem to cope better and that you should be okay, as nothing major has happened. Or maybe it has. Maybe a combination and accumulation of things have happened, and it has started to have an impact on you, whether consciously or unconsciously.  

Our discussions together can require going back to explore reasons you feel stuck; patterns of behaviour that are no longer serving you; reflect on symptoms that present themselves, or an environment that is affecting you (or has affected you), for improvement to take place. Helping you to express all you need, get in touch with your inner clarity and strength. For some people this can take time, and that's okay. My aim is to make you feel safe and comfortable in the process, and enable the best for you, personally, whilst working through any challenges, bringing about awareness, calm, healing, self autonomy and creating potential solutions or resilience required. 

Growing up in your unique environment and the experiences you've encountered along the way will have contributed to who you are today, as will your current situation. It's okay to admit you don’t feel okay and seek support to work through this.  

Please get in touch for further information. 

I look forward to hearing from you. 

I provide a non-judgemental, therapautic, safe space for you to talk freely about topics you may not have discussed with people before, or been able to process previously, which may be keeping you stuck in coping patterns and behaviours that are no longer serving you, or with new symptoms that present themselves.

I work with each individual uniquely, and apply my years of training relevantly as required. My website provides further details of my training, and on-going professional development, but my core approaches are:

Psychodynamic counselling - a talking therapy that can help you understand what you’re feeling, why you respond or behave in certain ways, and how this affects your relationships. It can enable you to get to the root of the problem, for long lasting change. What happens in our early years can be a blueprint throughout our life, dynamics of which we take into future relationships. One of the key ideas behind psychodynamic therapy is that when we experience something painful in our lives we might try to [consciously or unconsciously] ignore it, push it away, avoid it, cover it up and create defences, simply as a coping mechanism. However past experiences can continue to affect our behaviour, how we feel, and contribute to who we are, years later, and even have an impact on our health.  

Person Centred counselling - particularly with children and young people, looking at experience(s) through their perspective, in their world, helping them to actualise their full potential, and create a confident sense of self. 

Life Coaching - helps you to achieve personal goals, transitions, developments and to manage (professional or personal) projects. Identifying what obstacles maybe preventing you to achieve this, and create a plan of actions to move you toward your desired outcomes, bit by bit. 

A short form and contract is provided by email, for completion prior to the first session.

Everything else happens within the sessions.  Of course if you have any questions beforehand, please advise when getting in touch.

Sessions are for 50 minutes. Weekly sessions are recommended for optimum benefit. 

For parents of young people, a conversation is arranged prior to the first session.