ABOUT ME

A qualified person-centred counsellor and psychotherapist, I am a registered, accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP (Accred)), with experience in the voluntary and private sectors.  I have worked with a well known local counselling charity, a bereavement charity and a sexual and domestic abuse charity and now run a successful private practice.  

I have also worked as a Group Personal Development Facilitator for Diploma Level Counselling Students at Southampton City College.

I have full professional liability insurance and am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the largest professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists practicing in the UK.  I adhere to their Ethical Framework.

• 1st class BA (Hons) Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy, Middlesex University (a BACP accredited course)
• BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Southampton
• Diploma (Dip HE) in Person-Centred Counselling (Distinction), Middlesex University
• Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision 
• MBA, University of Southampton

• Certificate in Counselling Skills (Distinction), Southampton City College
• Certificate in Person-Centred Couples & Relationship Counselling
• Online Therapy Institute “Moving your practice Online”
• BACP online and telephone course / COVID-19 Primer

• Certificates in Safeguarding Training (Hidden Harm; Protecting Children; Young People and Adults at Risk; Safeguarding Adults; Awareness of Child Abuse)
• Continuing Professional Development courses 

I have worked with clients on a wide range of issues, including but not limited to:

• Addiction
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Bereavement, Grief and Loss
• Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse
• Depression
• Domestic Abuse
• Eating Disorders
• Family Conflict
• Isolation
• LGBTQ+
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
• Relationship problems
• Self-Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Stress

• MBACP (Accred) (Registered, Accredited Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) Membership No. 391674
• Accredited register of Professional Standards Authority
• MBPsS (Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (UK)) Membership No. 437784 
• Member of the Hampshire Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (HACP)
• Member of the Person-Centred Association (tPCA)

• Full personal indemnity and professional liability insurance
• Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check
• Registered with the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office)