My aim is to assist my clients to achieve their chosen goals, exploring options, resolving past issues, enabling resolution and progressing forward enhancing self-esteem and confidence, and understanding that change is sometimes a very difficult process.
My approach to counselling is integrated, meaning that I can work with a combination of theories, Person-Centred counselling underpins all of my work, especially when working on an emotional level with my clients, I have also trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other Humanistic based therapies. I practice both short and long-term counselling, and regularly review goals along the way, often with short-term work I have found that solution-based theory is most beneficial.
I am an accredited bereavement counsellor, this is in addition to being a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor, I also have specialist training dealing with domestic abuse and violence including anger management training, I am also very comfortable working with Couples counselling.
In addition to my counselling and psychotherapy practice, I am a fertility specialist and a member of BICA, a fully qualified and practising Acupuncturist, finding many philosophical overlaps including that of Mindfulness, a concept now widely recognised in western psychotherapeutic practice. I find my extra knowledge and training particularly beneficial when working with depression and Addiction, including weight loss.
