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Developing a Professional Private Practice

Always check a therapist's education, place of study and experience

Be aware of anyone practicing with only online course certificates

without any placement client experience, or clinical supervision

Qualifications

Diploma Levels 2, 3, & 4

Counselling, Psychotherapy, Couple & Family - Islington College, London

(3 Year Placement - Supervised Therapist in Training at Westminster Addiction)

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Diploma - Level 5

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - Skills, Theory,

Westminster College, London

(2 Year Placement - Supervised Therapist in Training at Westminster Addiction)

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Diploma - Level 6 & 7

Professional Integrative Supervision

The Minster Centre, London

The Awareness Centre

(3 Year Placement - Supervise Therapists at (WLCC) West London Centre for Counselling

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History Chronological Order

Training - Work Experience - Self-Employment

1982 - 83 Off the Record, Telephone counselling, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne

1990 - 93 Victims Helpline, telephone counselling, group training, supervision, Hackney, East London.

1992 - (BOV) Board of Visitors HMC Pentonville Prison, Islington, London

1994 - 95 Childline, Telephone Counsellor, Islington, London.

1995 - 99 (PFF) Prisoners Families & Friends, Co-ordinator, and Person-Centred Counsellor

2005 - 08 Founder and CEO of (WAM) The Women’s Art Movement CIC., Islington London

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Education

2010 -11 Level 2 Introduction building Foundation - Counselling and Psychotherapy Studies

2011-12 Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies

2012 -14 Level 4 Diploma Integrative Counsellor, Islington College London

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Placement Working with clients - Supervised

2012 -15 Three-year placement (WDP) North Westminster Addiction Service, London.

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Private Practice

2014 -17 Private Practice Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling - Islington, London

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Education

2014 - BACP (CoP) Certificate of Proficiency, Islington College, London

2015 -16, Level 5 CPCAB (CBT) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with IAPT training, London

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Education

2015 - 17 Diploma, Integrative Supervision, Minster Centre, London

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Supervision Training Working with therapists and clients

2015 - 16 (TAC) The Awareness Centre, 41 Abbeville Road, London.

Therapist Placement

2015 - 16 (IAPT) Therapist, GP Surgery, Lambeth, London.

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Placement Working with clients - Supervised

2015 - 18 Supervisor placement (WLCC) West London Centre for Counselling, Hammersmith, London*

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Private Practice

2015 - 18 Private Practice - Integrative Clinical Supervision, Harley Street, Westminster, London

2018 - Ongoing Private Practice - Integrative Psychotherapy, Counselling & Supervision - Hove, East Sussex

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Ongoing Personal Development Courses

(NICABM) National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine.

Advanced Master Program - Treatment of Trauma:

1) Strategies to Treat Patients Trapped in the Freeze Response

2) How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle)

3) How to Work with Emerging Defense Responses to Trauma (Beyond the Fight/Flight/Freeze Model)

4) How to Ease the Pain of Trauma-Induced Shame

5) How to Work with Patients Whose Trauma Triggers Problems in Their Current Relationships

6) Bodily Impulses, 7) Parents who Dissociate, 8) Dissociation in Relationships

9) Polyvagal Approaches to Dissociation, 10) Polyvagal and Emerging Responses

11) Child Abuse and Neglect, 12) Sex Trafficking, 13) Social Engagement System

14) Repair Family Ruptures, 15) Polyvagal and Neuroregulation, 16) Relationships and Somatic Interventions

17) Relationships and IFS, 18) Working with the Pain of Abandonment

19) How to Work with Clients Who Are Hypersensitive to Rejection

20) 5 Ways to Change Fearful Behaviour That Sets a Client Up for Further Abandonment

21) How to Help Clients Stop Sacrificing Their Boundaries to Avoid Being Abandoned

22) How to Recondition a Nervous System Damaged by Abandonment

23) A 3-Step Strategy to Expand a Client’s Tolerance of Rejection

24) How to Read the Abandonment Story Your Client’s Body Is Telling

25) How to Repair Abandonment Wounds from Early Life Attachment

26) How to Treat A Fear of Abandonment Linked to Betrayal

27) Powerful Skills to Disrupt Rigid Patterns of Abandonment

28) How to Approach Shame That Drives a Fear of Rejection

29) Key Strategies for Working with Abandonment and Trauma

30) How to Work with Separation Anxiety and Children

31) How to Establish Strong Therapist-Patient Boundaries with Clients Who Have Been Abandoned

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COSRT - College of Sexual and Relationship Therapist

32) Eating in Families and Relationships

33) Solutions for Female Orgasm Problems: Helping Clients

34) Non-demand Sex Therapy

35) Working with Common Sexual Difficulties in Women

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SARB – Sex and Relationships – Brighton

36) Living Asexually Workshop Asexual

37) Online Study - Exploring Sexuality Definitions

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Supervisor's Conference Event Canada Water Theatre and Library, London

38) A paradoxical process: the joys and challenges of supervision

(There are simply too many courses to add)

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Professional and experienced therapy is unique to each individual client and couple​

I support clients to gently explore challenges and concerns and focus on positive needs, and begin to process and focus on their needs, slowly building confidence towards developing enthusiasm and curiosity to help make sense of things, past, present and move life forwards.

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I also bring constructive and supportive challenges to help you develop real awareness, to make significant changes to help you develop real boundaries and healthier relationships

As a professional Integrative Counsellor, I also Supervise therapists of all ability so clients and therapists can feel completely confident with my experience and professionalism to feel confidentially and carefully supported.

I am an enthusiastic researcher, inspired to expand, develop and adapt my way of working. Developing expertise helps me to provide all my clients with the very best possible counselling and supervision sessions, working to my best capacity.

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My experience will show as I support you to process your needs, concerns, struggles, anything and everything, to help you to make sense of things, past and present and move your life on.

Homework is simply working out of session. We can plan work to explore tasks, developing skills, practising strategies and using journals to enable you to begin to feel in control in-between sessions and experience real changes.

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I am there for you when you need someone to talk anything through with confidentially, I'm always here to help you. I will also support your concerns caringly, to gently explore at a deeper level, any past or present challenging experiences, thoughts, feelings, emotions or behaviour.

I will always support you to feel heard, to make sense of anything, to see things in different ways, to make informed positive and beneficial choices and changes toward gaining a much deeper understanding. I will help you process what may trigger you to feel stuck by exploring things that can unconsciously hold you back.

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Further Session Information

Talking and exploring your thoughts, feelings, emotions, experiences, behaviours or relationships especially the effect upon you and others within confidential,

none biased counselling sessions will bring many benefits.

I will help you to gain a deeper understanding of feeling stuck or things that might be holding you back, any difficulties or issues that affect you,

so that you can find a way to move forward and flourish in life.

I provide a confidential, safe and anonymous space where you can feel confident and relaxed to express and explore whatever is on your mind.

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I will help you to express and process any challenging emotions, thoughts,

feelings, experiences, and behaviour. I will help you to unpack whatever is on your mind,

to gain a deeper focus on your needs, create healthy boundaries,

develop self-awareness and grow in confidence towards your chosen goals.

Talking in safe, confidential and professional sessions will help you to alleviate

all sorts of difficulties. This could include experiences with changing moods,

relationships, depression, anxiety, stress, fear, panic, life crisis, trauma, self-harm,

eating disorders, confusion, co-dependency, identity, confidence, addiction,

enabling, parenting, relationship difficulties, health issues, anger, frustration,

trauma, mental and physical abuse, neglect, addiction, self-esteem, gender, sexuality etc.

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If you are feeling at a point in your life where you just want to reach out

but not sure how to, if you are motivated to seek change,

are brave enough to want to try to understand and work this out,

there is every reason to believe that therapy will help you through this.

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I will work with you to develop a supportive, non-judgmental, empathic, safe,

trusting and confidential, therapeutic relationship. I will support you to begin to

understand your concerns and issues at a deeper level, to make sense of your past,

focus on your present and move towards your future.

I will help you to understand and work through any challenges, to help you to

focus on your needs. You will begin to process challenging thoughts, feelings,

emotions, behaviour, especially within relationships. I will support you to feel

much more in control, experience growth in independent confidence, develop

healthy, positive relationships, express your needs and feel honest and authentic.

I believe in the process of helping you to become your own therapist,

to explore and develop your own tools and skills.

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I will encourage you to take initiative, process your own concerns,

rather than become dependent on me. I bring instinctive, awareness to

support you to make sense of negative, unhelpful,

and challenging thoughts and behaviour.

Every client is unique, I will therefore tailor my work to focus on your specific needs,

help you with your relational concerns, work, and family challenges, including

identifying and processing any triggers from your past, help you identify

and explore your boundaries and set up healthy filters, work through unrealistic

expectations or assumptions, identify influential core beliefs and reactions,

work with dreams and unconscious processes.

We will focus on talking things through, exploring thoughts, sharing plans and ideas,

setting goals, challenging expectations and assumptions by experimenting and

becoming curious. We will explore negative thinking and bring a balance

with positives, acknowledge and make sense of the past and begin to feel

more in the present, establish firm and strong boundaries, identify your needs

and begin to filter challenging behaviours or reactions,

make beneficial changes and experience significant growth.

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When life feels overwhelming it can affect relationships, work, health, emotions, feelings and behaviour. It’s really important to talk things through unconditionally.

I work in a very different way to most therapists, by setting goals for homework, journaling to explore triggers from your past which can feel challenging.

I also help you feel empowered, to make significant life changes and focus on well-being to bring a full life balance.

To develop insight, awareness prioritises your own needs and set strong boundaries. It’s time to make life changes reach out, book your free session, and see how we get along​

I also support you by empowering you to become your own therapist.

With over 39 years of experience as a professional Integrative Counsellor,

Psychotherapist, and Supervisor. This has helped me to develop a

challenging and compassionate practice to help my clients to focus on

Short - Term Sessions and if required moving into Long -Term Sessions.

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I embrace diversity, change and difference with ongoing professional development to support all my clients and therapists.

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I will help you to completely change the way you think; your belief system, habits, attitude, to help you to make the most of your life.

You will become the very best you can be, developing healthier and happier behaviour, relationships, routine, habits even sleep and in a very quick and professional way because I am both experienced and qualified and will not waste any time.

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Yes, sometimes sessions will be challenging, without judgment always with so much empathy and compassion it will help you to change and feel empowered to be the best version of you

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My focus is to help my clients to reach their full potential.

Whether you are a successful actor dealing with a confidence crisis,

a CEO struggling with company issues, a student stressing about exams,

someone coping with unemployment, battling to cope with depression, anxiety,

work, struggling with relationships, home life, experiencing too much stress,

overthinking, or worrying, trying to cope with anger, unhelpful behaviour or having too little happiness in your life. I am here to support you with the

compassion and challenge that will help you to make the positive and

healthy choices you need to change your life.

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Right from the very first session, I will help you in several ways:

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To explore your past and present thoughts, feelings, emotions, belief systems,

patterns of behaviour, relationship issues

(attachment, co-dependency) and any potential triggers.

To focus on your needs, develop healthy relational boundaries

and filters by setting achievable goals.

To empower you as my client to become your own therapist we will explore everything about your life at home, work, study, exercise, your sleep patterns, how you take care of yourself, food, supplements to support your full well-being.

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To move your life forward, help you develop ways to take control,

develop a much healthier life balance.

Homework in between sessions will empower and help you to focus on your own,

towards becoming your very own therapist.

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I have developed a depth of knowledge to support you, working with a variety of modalities including; (CBT) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, (DBT) Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Holistic, Psychodynamic, Analytical, Gestalt and Humanistic.

Each individual client and supervisee will embrace a depth of awareness and challenging work processes, feel empowered, gain insight into every relationship,

focus on needs including physical, emotional, mental, holistic health,

at work, leisure, home, especially sleep, diet, habits, addictions and patterns of behaviour.

​Life may feel unbearable at times but take some comfort from knowing that it will not last forever I am here to support you through sessions for as long as you need them.

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Please contact me to arrange your first session which is Free for individual, couples or Therapists in Supervision to help you to experience how it feels to work with me and to see if we work well together as a good fit.

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Online Sessions are perfect to have in the comfort of your own home or private space and you will feel the benefit within your familiar surroundings.

Make sure you have a good internet signal, create a safe, confidential and comfortable arrangement with a glass of water ready in good time just before our session.

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Online apps are simple to use, just download your preferred online app like Zoom we can always use the phone, or WhatsApp Facetime.

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Together we will embrace a depth of work and challenging processes,

each individual client and therapist you will feel empowered,

gain insight into every individual need including physical,

emotional, mental, holistic health at play, work and home especially sleep and diet.

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This is never an easy path, but it is achievable as we combine attentive,

detailed listening with self-awareness, intense ‘HOMEWORK’ processing

and to help my clients to identify and make significant empowering changes. ​

I will enable you to achieve positive changes and to gain the confidence and skills to cope effectively with life’s challenges as they arise, both now and in the future. I bring a wealth of experience to gently challenge and help you to work through stress, depression, anxiety, feeling stuck, overthinking or just need to talk things through to make sense and move on.

I provide a confidential, safe and anonymous space where you can feel very relaxed, heard, supported and safe to express and explore whatever is on your mind.

It is very easy to book a session with me to explore ways to make positive choices and changes towards living a much happier and healthier life.

I work with couples and individuals in short- or long-term sessions.

I also set work in between sessions to enable you to feel much more empowered, to process changes quickly becoming far more independent of therapy by developing your own skills, techniques and strategies.

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I worked for the NHS during which I undertook training and awareness in both physical and mental health settings. This enabled me to gain in-depth experience of working with the full range of psychological and psychiatric conditions out-patient settings, as well as experience of physical conditions whilst working in a variety of medical settings such as neurology, rheumatology and physical well-being.

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I will support you for as long or as short as you feel you need; through anything you struggle with. If you feel unhappy, unfulfilled, unable to reach your full potential, sad, depressed, stressed, or anxious, and feel it’s time to talk things through. I am always here for you every step of the way to explore your thoughts, feelings and emotions, or try to make sense of things.

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I will help you to express and process any past or present

challenging experiences and behaviour. I will help you to unpack whatever is on your mind,

to gain a deeper understanding towards improving focus on your needs, to create healthy boundaries, develop self-awareness and grow in confidence towards your chosen goals.

I will support you to set your own goals, to find your voice, to feel heard,

to make informed choices, bring significant changes and gain

a much deeper understanding of what may trigger you to feel stuck

by exploring things that can hold you back.

Together we can explore feelings and emotions that trigger trauma

and begin to bear the unbearable, we can explore blocks, feeling blinkered

or rigid thinking using gentle, small steps. We can work creatively using a sand tray,

photographic images, chair work to process gently and move life forward.

Please do contact to arrange a session, remember sessions are extremely easy to arrange,

I always encourage my clients to work towards becoming independent

of therapy from early on rather than spending years in therapy.

My clients can work in between sessions with homework to develop

stronger techniques and strategies sooner.

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Please send me an email and I will always try to make space midweek Tuesday to Thursday to book