Service Information:

Training and Qualifications:  

I am a qualified counsellor (Diploma in Counselling) who chose to further my study by training in  Gestalt Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Trust.

My training, which has covered many years, included separate training in Dance Therapy and Group Process. 

I have worked for over twenty years in community mental health and spent ten years managing a local association of MIND, the leading mental health charity, in the South East of England. 

Compassionate and caring with a love of clarity and a respect for the individuals unfolding development, I can offer both short-term counselling and long-term psychotherapy.

I am a member of BACP and work to BACP code of practice.

How do I work?

My theoretical approach is existential and client centred and I seek to ensure that you are the centre of the work that occurs between us.

You are your own expert and I will respect that at all times.

Through our sessions I can help you learn the skills which will not only help you through your current situation but which can be used in any future periods of personal stress.

All I ask is that you are as honest as you feel able to be at our meetings and I will do the same.

What does holistic mean?

It means that I understand you as a totality of body, mind and spirit with your own internal and external realities.

That I will see our work as one of many different understandings of emotional distress and that I will be open to suggesting and working with other approaches, that complement our work and may be equally beneficial.

Fees:

I charge £25 - 30 per session. Sessions usually occur once a week at a time that is mutually convenient.

How do You Contact Me?

By Telephone on the following number: 01423 340303

All enquiries are dealt with in the strictest confidence.