About me
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, trained in psychodynamic practice at Oxford University (PG Dip in Psychodynamic Practice.)
I am currently based in Warwickshire
I have over 30 years of experience of working with people in various ways, helping them to make sense of the things that happen in their lives, and to find the inner resources they need to live most fully.
How I work
Whatever you may bring to therapy, we will create a safe space together where you can be free to think. You can explore the meaning of what is happening in your life, and come to understand yourself, your relationships and your behaviour better – so you can make choices about how you will live instead of being overwhelmed by the things that may be happening for you.
I am interested in what may be going on ‘under the surface’ of your feelings, actions and experience. Often, we will seek to understand how the things that happened in our past may impact the way we experience our lives in the present.
Painful experience can be hard to put into words, and therapy can take time. We will go at your pace and nothing will be demanded of you – what we talk about is up to you.
What I can help with:
There could be many reasons why you may feel this is the time for therapy. It may be hard for you to articulate exactly what they are. but you feel there is something you are looking for. Here are just some of the things I could help with:
Issues and questions concerning
- Anxiety
- Low mood
- Finding meaning, making sense of life
- Identity, gender and sexuality
- Relationship, loneliness and intimacy
- Health and ill health, both chronic and acute
- Diagnosis, in yourself or another
- Life limiting conditions, in yourself or another
- Aging
- Mortality, dying and death
- Bereavement and loss
- Miscarriage and early pregnancy loss
- Baby loss and neonatal loss
- Sudden death of infants and children (SUDIC)
- Religion and spirituality, faith and loss of faith
- Questions relating to a sense of vocation
Non judgemental
One of the distinctives of the therapy relationship is that it is non-judgemental. We will look for a way to understand what has happened and how it impacts us. Often, in trying to make sense of things, we blame ourselves or another person, (or perhaps an institution) for something that has happened, and we may be burdened with a deep sense of guilt, fear or anger. Being non-judgemental doesn’t mean we will say anything is or is not anyone’s fault. We will not say that it does not matter – but we will seek a deeper understanding that will enable you to integrate the things that have happened and move forward more freely.
How and when can we meet?
Currently I mostly work online and on the telephone; for weekly or fortnightly sessions. Sessions last for 50 minutes. I am happy to work in a time-limited or open-ended way.
Contact me to arrange a time for an initial half hour meeting in which we can explore the possibility of working together.
Fees:
Initial meeting (up to 20 minutes) no charge
£50 – £65 per session
What I can offer
- Space for you to think
- A confidential relationship where we can explore whatever you are facing
- Conversation, where the focus is on you
- Attentive listening
- No judgement
Contact me
You can email me or phone/message me on 07944 025561