About me

I am a Registered Counsellor with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a Professional member of The Association of Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO.) I work within the BACP ‘Ethical Framework for Counsellors’, and also the BACP Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy. Information relating to both of these documents can be found here. 

.I can offer face-to-face, walking, or online counselling in the form of telephone, email, IM or webcam video call such as Zoom.

I work with people with a wide range of issues, including common mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression, and people who are navigating life events that are affecting their ability to fully engage with what they want to. My experience includes working with private clients who are looking to understand their current and past experiences, and find a way forward for themselves. Through my counselling work in schools and also through a career in teaching and coaching, I have extensive experience of working with young people aged 11-18yrs, and have worked for a charity supporting people with life limiting illness, bereavement and loss.

Outside of counselling, I love to stay active through sport and be outdoors. I also enjoy going to the cinema and reading when I can.

About the way I work

I am committed to provide a counselling session that creates a supportive and non-judgmental environment. Counselling isn’t about offering advice to you, but through exploring what is happening and how you feel, the sessions can help to process foster growth and lead to positive change in your life. I may use a range of appropriate approaches to counselling including CBT, person centred, transactional analysis and psychodynamic theories.

I provide a service that puts you, the client, at the heart of the work. An empathic counsellor – client relationship can help the you to feel safe enough to explore yourself, find, and then make, any changes that you want to make. Through working in partnership and at your pace, the sessions can help you explore how you are experiencing life at present and also help you to understand the things that have happened to you in the past.

Counselling can create an opportunity for you be empowered to make the right choices for your own future and experience self-growth where this is chosen In a counselling relationship, hope is always held open so that you can design and enact your own recovery route.