​About Me.

I work in private practice from dedicated therapy rooms in central Hove and central Brighton. I am a fully insured member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and abide by their code of ethics. 

​I am experienced working both long and short term, working with a wide variety of client experiences. Areas of support that I can offer include: 

• Loss and bereavement
• Anxiety and Depression
• Relationships
• Trauma and abuse
• Guilt, shame and anger
• Living with health issues
• Attachment and emotional absence
• Life stages and aging
• Work and career   
• Suicide ideation
• ​Identity including gender and transgender

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." C.G. Jung

I work within a humanistic approach, practicing primarily as a gestalt therapist and integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS). This means that I am particularly interested in what is happening in the present-moment and how this moment is shaped and impacted by our past.

I believe that when we can learn to trust our own inner-experience as a guide, we can make choices around what is right for us and follow a more fulfilling path. Within the context of a safe and empathic relationship, I will encourage you to be curious about how you interpret your physical feelings and emotions, in order that you can start to understand your ‘inner-language’ and learn to trust this as a guide to what is right for you.

I have completed counselling training at several institutions including the University of Brighton and the University of Chichester. I am a trained bereavement counsellor and am ASIST trained (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training). 

​​I believe strongly that counselling should be accessible to all and so, in addition to my private practice, I also work at local, low-cost counselling agency and registered charity, As You Are. As part of my commitment, I also offer a limited number of low-cost spaces within my own practice.

I have trained and worked as a specialist bereavement counsellor with the national charity Cruse Bereavement Care. I also worked in their emergency disaster response team, supporting survivors of national disasters.

I have worked supporting the homeless in Brighton and Hove. I was part of a specialist outreach team, providing welfare, safeguarding and risk assessment to those finding themselves homeless in Brighton and Hove. 
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In my professional life, and before beginning my own counselling journey, I worked in a number of roles in sales and marketing, management and business consultancy.    

In accordance with BACP guidelines, I am committed to continuous professional development (CPD), through training courses, workshops, personal therapy and supervision.

In addition to my three years of BACP accredited training, I have also completed the following CPD courses: 

• Specialist Bereavement Support 
• SafeTalk Suicide Alertness
• Applied Suicide Intervention Training (ASIST) 
• Working with Trauma
• Motivational Interviewing
• Anger Management
• Working with Shame
• Psychosexual Training
• LGBTQ Basic Awareness
• Child Protection
• Assessment Training
• Working Creatively with Sand Tray
• Gestalt Two-chair Technique 
• Working with Timelines

Get In Touch.

I offer an initial 50 minute assessment session at £30 as an opportunity for you to explore what you wish to gain from counselling and so that you can get an experience of me and how we might work together.

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