About Me

My Approach



We are all unique and as such I aim to tailor counselling to suit you.  I integrate a number of theoretical approaches to allow for this flexibility.  These theories include systemic, narrative, person-centred, psychodynamic and attachment (see glossary for explanation of terms.)


Integrating approaches in this way will allow us to explore your issues in the context of your personal history and development, your current circumstances and relationships, and the belief systems and thought processes underlying your feelings and behaviours, enabling you to identify opportunities for change.


I aim to work collaboratively, meaning that we combine resources, mine being my professional experience, and yours comprising your knowledge of your self, your experiences, your strengths, your thoughts and feelings etc. Together we can start to explore the issues affecting you, and consider the potential for change.

 



Qualifications and Experience

 


Qualifications


MA in Relationship Therapy

Post Qualification Diploma in Counselling Supervision

University Advanced Diploma in Couple Counselling

Diploma in Counselling for Addictions

Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Awareness in Bereavement Care Foundation Course

Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies

Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills

 

Professional Accreditation

 

Registered and Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

 

Additional Experience

 

Outside of my private practice, I have trained and worked for Relate and Cruse Bereavement Care. I am also a lecturer in counselling, and have developed and delivered a number of training workshops for various organisations including Cruse Bereavement Care, Basingstoke College of Technology, Farnborough College of Technology and Surrey Counselling Training. For more information on training services I can provide, click here.


Continued Professional Development


Examples of courses I have attended are:

 

Breaking the cycle of depression 

Understanding anxiety and managing it without drugs

Effective anger management

Tackling addiction

From self harm to self belief

From stress to psychosis

Adult survivors of sexual abuse

Sudden and traumatic death

A child's grief

Bereavement and health

Couples and affairs

Mental health and couple counselling

Substance and alcohol misuse - working with the couple

Working with sexual issues in systemic therapy

Service life, deployment and its effect on families and couple relationships

Domestic violence and abuse: assessment and intervention

Separation and divorce

Active counselling techniques

Integrating attachment and family life cycle concepts and theories

Developing your counselling with a sexual focus

Implications of attachment theory

Illness and couples

Working with orthodox masculinity

Male victims of domestic violence and abuse

Practical interventions for anxiety and acute traumatic stress

Boarding school syndrome

Supervising with attachment in mind

Attachment narrative therapy

 

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