Get personalised one-on-one 50mins sessions in person, online or telephone to explore your feelings, thoughts and behaviours in a safe and confidential environment.
Trauma/PTSD
Trauma can come in different guises like depression, PD, anxiety, anger, addictions, eating disorders, insomnia and isolation. It can be difficult to address, identify and talk about because you may feel shame and fear of judgement. Sometimes people maybe reluctant to come into therapy for fear of being judged and others not believing them. Therapy maybe a good place to start.
It can be difficult going through a breakup, ending a significant relationship and coming to terms with the fact your relationship hasn't worked out. You maybe left with feelings of anger, betrayal, resentment, loss, thoughts of being let down, hurt, sadness and disempowerment.
It can take time to move on and the best way is to be honest with how you are really feeling. Friends and family may mean well and their intentions are good but you may find that you can't be completely honest with them. You may think it's unfair to burden them with your feelings and problems or you fear their judgement for why you haven't moved on yet.
Talking about your disappointments, anger and strong remaining feelings for your ex with a therapist can be beneficial to help you move on, make difficult decisions to support your acceptance for your loss of your relationship. I can support you to reflect and express your feelings and thoughts about either ending or continuing your relationship. I can offer you space and time to move at your own pace.
Learn practical tools to manage anxiety and depression symptoms to improve your quality of life. Explore the root causes of your anxiety or depression or both by building your awareness on how anxiety affects you, identify your triggers, build strategies to minimise the affects of anxiety and depression by building your skills in self management.
It can be hard to identify what maybe triggering your anxiety on your own. The feeling may feel so overwhelming that you get stuck in focusing and avoiding what may go wrong, feelings of shame and pressure to not feel the way you do. Therapy can help you to slow down the process, learn how to challenge distorted thought patterns, negative beliefs and behaviours that are not helpful for you to manage your feelings and thoughts.
Are you worried or concerned about your drug use?
Are you worried or concerned about how much alcohol you are drinking?
Using alcohol, cocaine, cannabis and other recreational drugs can sometimes appear to be a harmless way to relax, socialise and cope with unwanted thoughts and feelings. Using this way can become problematic if physical and psychological dependency develops. Dependency means you have lost your ability to chose when to drink or use and when not to. It now feels like a need to use or a tool to manage how you feel and think.
I can support you to
Support you to improve communication, build your awareness with psycho education on how ADHD can impact you and also the benefits of having ADHD. Manage thoughts and feelings better, find acceptance to normalise your symptoms of ADHD and learn to self manage anxiety/depression associated with ADHD. Please note I do not give diagnoses as you will need a qualified psychiatrist to do this for you. I work with those who have been diagnosed or those who want to explore ADHD without a diagnosis. However, I can offer ASRS11 assessments to help assess if you have traits or want to pursue a diagnosis with a psychiatrist.
Sometimes circumstances can make us lonely. For example, moving to a new country or city, loss of a loved one, unsociable working hours, loss of a job, lack of money or physical or mental health.
Being lonely can affect your self esteem, confidence and worth. I can support you to build confidence, find tolerance in uncertainty, find acceptance for yourself, and develop or improve interpersonal relationships.
If you find your self saying or thinking; 'I'm lonely', 'People wont like me if they really got to know me.', 'I'm too shy', 'I have problems communicating and sharing with other people.' 'I don't trust people.', 'I'm lonely because I don't have that special someone in my life.' or 'I'm too negative!' Maybe therapy may be good place to start.
Would you like to work with a therapist that can acknowledge difference and similarities like race, culture, beliefs and values?
I have worked with array of cultures and races from Caribbean, African, mixed-heritage, Cuban Greek, Brazilian, Irish and American.
I acknowledge how difference, colour, race, gender, values and beliefs can play a part in how we form relationships with others and ourselves
Auricular acupuncture can help as an alternative method to support you to manage your emotional and physical well being.
I was trained at the Yuan Traditional medicine College and I'm qualified to practice 5 point Yuan and 7 point Jing.
Auricular acupuncture can help with:
How does it work?
Small needles are inserted around the external ear. I will insert up to five needles in one ear. It is relatively pain free and most you will feel is a little scratch when each needle is first inserted. I offer auricular acupuncture combined with therapy as a separate service. If you will like this therapy please make sure that if you are not self-funding your therapy that your insurance will cover the cost.
If you are looking for a supervisor I can offer support to students or other counsellors. I can work with Person-centred, Behavioural, Motivational, Solution Focused, Addictions, Psychotherapy. I have 16 years of working integrative with Person-Centred, Behavioural, Motivational, psychotherapy, Solution Focused and CBT .
I have extensive past work experience as a substance misuse practitioner working with addictions. I also have extensive experience working in the mental health sector offering practical and emotional support including counselling to adults
I adhere to the BACP Ethical Frame work for Good practice in Counselling Psychotherapy and Online
I'm an accredited member of British Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling and a member of Federation of Drugs and Alcohol Professionals.
In a nutshell, I support people to work through emotional distress, change unwanted behaviours and
I adhere to the BACP Ethical Frame work for Good practice in Counselling Psychotherapy and Online
I'm an accredited member of British Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling and a member of Federation of Drugs and Alcohol Professionals.
In a nutshell, I support people to work through emotional distress, change unwanted behaviours and thoughts , learn to tolerate uncertainty and accept their relationship with themselves and others.
I started my career 16 years ago working within the Social care sector. I've worked with clients suffering from substance misuse and clients suffering predominately with moderate and chronic mental health.
Its now been 14 years running my own private practice which I successfully run today as a psychotherapist/counsellor and auricular acupuncturist.
I work with an integrative approach to my practice. This means I'm trained in more than one therapy approach. This allows me to use different models of therapy to support and tailor make an approach for your individual needs. The models I work with are: CBT, Behavioural, Person-Centred, Psychotherapy, Motivational and Solution focused therapy
Diplomas
Certificates
£80.00 per 50mins (Tues 12-9pm & Fridays 10am-4:30pm)
£70.00 per 50mins. (12-10pm) Wed-Thurs
£110.00 per 50mins (Friday 10-4:30pm)
£60 for 1hr (50mins) and £90 11/2hrs. Online.
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30mins free of charge. Tues - Friday
£60 for 30mins (Fridays)
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BAME Support
Would you like to work with a therapist that can acknowledge difference and similarities like race, culture, beliefs and values?
I have worked with array of cultures and races from Caribbean, African, mixed-heritage, Cuban Greek, Brazilian, Irish and American.
I acknowledge how difference, colour, race, gender, values and beliefs can play a part in how we form relationships with others and ourselves
ADHD Neuro-Diversity
Loneliness/Isolation
Sometimes circumstances can make us lonely. For example, moving to a new country or city, loss of a loved one, unsociable working hours, loss of a job, lack of money or physical or mental health.
Being lonely can affect of self esteem, confidence and worth. I can support you to build confidence, find tolerance in uncertainty, find acceptance for yourself, and develop or improve interpersonal relationships.
Trauma/PTSD
Trauma can come in different guises like depression, PD, anxiety, anger, addictions, eating disorders, insomnia and isolation. It can be difficult to address, identify and talk about because you may feel shame and fear of judgement. Sometimes people maybe reluctant to come into therapy for fear of being judged and others not believing them. Therapy maybe a good place to start.
Break-ups/Betrayals
Talking about your disappointments, anger and strong remaining feelings for your ex with a therapist can be beneficial to help you move on, make difficult decisions to support your acceptance for your loss of your relationship. I can support you to reflect and express your feelings and thoughts about either ending or continuing your relationship. I can offer you space and time to move at your own pace.
Anxiety/Depression
It can be hard to identify what maybe triggering your anxiety on your own as the feeling may feel so overwhelming that you get stuck in focusing and avoiding what may go wrong, feelings of shame, pressure to not feel the way you do. Therapy can help you to slow down the process, learn how to challenge distorted thought patterns, negative beliefs and behaviours that are not helpful for you to manage your feelings and thoughts.
Alcohol/Drugs
Using alcohol, cocaine, cannabis and other recreational drugs can sometimes appear to be a harmless way to relax, socialise and cope with unwanted thoughts and feelings. Using this way can become problematic if physical and psychological dependency develops. Dependency means you have lost your ability to chose when to drink or use or when not to. It now feels like a need to use or a tool to manage how you feel and think.
Combined Therapy with Auricular acupuncture
Auricular acupuncture can help as an alternative method to support you to manage your emotional and physical well being.
I offer auricular acupuncture combined with therapy as a separate service.