Welcome
There are many debates about what counselling should or should not be. What I do know is that it should be a safe place within which you can make sense of your world.
You can expect to talk about the things that trouble or intrigue you without being judged, advised or pushed.
You hold the answers and, together, we will work towards finding them.
Integrative counselling, as the name suggests, is about using a range of different approaches. It is also about working towards bringing different parts of you together.
Creativity - story, play and art - can help in getting to know those parts. And in accepting them too.
I hold the heartfelt belief that self-kindness is the key to deep change. I do believe this can be learnt. I have completed training in Compassion Focused Therapy so that I can share these techniques with you. I also hold a certificate in Focusing. This is a gentle - but very effective - way of exploring our inner knowing by getting in touch with feelings experienced in the body. I am now training to become a Focusing practitioner and will be able to support you in exploring this nourishing tool for self care. I am offering free introductory sessions as part of my training.
I know it is daunting to embark on therapy. I think it is natural to feel a little afraid to look inside. But ultimately it is a journey back towards oneself.
You can expect to talk about the things that trouble or intrigue you without being judged, advised or pushed.
You hold the answers and, together, we will work towards finding them.
Integrative counselling, as the name suggests, is about using a range of different approaches. It is also about working towards bringing different parts of you together.
Creativity - story, play and art - can help in getting to know those parts. And in accepting them too.
I hold the heartfelt belief that self-kindness is the key to deep change. I do believe this can be learnt. I have completed training in Compassion Focused Therapy so that I can share these techniques with you. I also hold a certificate in Focusing. This is a gentle - but very effective - way of exploring our inner knowing by getting in touch with feelings experienced in the body. I am now training to become a Focusing practitioner and will be able to support you in exploring this nourishing tool for self care. I am offering free introductory sessions as part of my training.
I know it is daunting to embark on therapy. I think it is natural to feel a little afraid to look inside. But ultimately it is a journey back towards oneself.
Get to know meI am a registered member of the BACP and an Anxiety UK approved counsellor with a postgraduate diploma in integrative counselling (2019). I initially trained as a person-centred bereavement worker in 2015.
In addition to my counselling work, I am the editor of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's spirituality journal, Thresholds. 
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"We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be able to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T.S. Eliot.
