About me

I began my career working for over 15 years in creative therapeutic settings with a diverse group of people, including students. Seeing the healing benefits of people finding their own creativity and engaging with a community, as well as experiencing this myself,  inspired me to train as a counsellor. Now I support people find their own creative ways to heal and make changes. 

Alongside my counselling work, I work at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, a key NHS mental health Trust. I’ve been part of teams building mental health support in the workplace, and more recently been working at Tavistock Consulting which is a therapeutically minded organisational consultancy service. So, I have a particular interest in workplace issues.

As well as my private practice I have previously worked for an alcohol and addiction support agency, Mind, the Mental Health Charity and Gloucestershire Counselling service, which offered low cost counselling to victims of domestic abuse. 

I am currently training as a couples/relationship therapist at the NAOS Institute on their Advanced Diploma (level 7) in Relationship Psychotherapy. During the training period, as a trainee relationships therapist, I am offering a reduced rate to couple/relationship clients. 

 

Qualifications and memberships

• Trainee couples/relationship psychotherapist at NAOS Advanced Diploma in Relationship Psychotherapy.
• Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Member of BACP workplace
• DipHE Professional Counselling (BACP accredited course)
• Certificate Person Centred Counselling Skills (BACP accredited course)
• Certificate Gestalt Counselling Skills (BACP accredited course)
• Student member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists

Continuous professional development (CPD):

• Workplace Stress, Human Givens College
• Alcohol, Codependency, Motivational Interviewing, Creativity in Counselling, Shame, Mindfulness
• Clinical assessment training
• Trauma Informed Practice when working with survivors of Sexual Violence
• Trauma with Babette Rothschild
• Reading Seminars – Organisational Consultancy & Change; exploring systems psychodynamics, The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
• Online counselling – Advancing knowledge, Open University