Counselling in CW9

Hi, I’m an integrative counsellor working with a variety of issues including bereavement and loss, anxiety, depression and relationships, coping with change and self-esteem issues. I understand that seeking help from a counsellor can be a daunting experience. I create a welcoming and supportive environment, based on respect, empathy and trust, where you feel in control of your own therapeutic process. Sessions are based on what you choose to bring and explore to help you find a way of dealing with life’s challenges and help you gain a sense of stability to improve your well-being. I look forward to hearing from you.

I'm a fully accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) with post graduate certificate in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). I am also currently completing training in Schema Therapy. I work using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with social anxiety, worry, OCD, PTSD and depression. Over the years I have specialised in using CBT and CFT to work with people who experienced difficulties in early life. In adult life this can shows itself as high levels of anxiety, self-criticism, low mood, feeling overwhelmed by emotions, feeling like a failure, feeling alone, blaming yourself for everything, feeling guilty and people pleasing.

Choosing the right counsellor for you can be hard. What has led you to consider counselling at this point in your life? Do you wish you had a better understanding of yourself and how your background or current situation may be holding you back? Do you want to find ways to cope with the challenges in your life right now? Would you like to explore the possibility of change – in your career, your relationships or how you see yourself? Do you need a space to be heard, where you can be accepted just as you are? I have helped hundreds of people to achieve their goals for counselling. Allow me to help you find what you're looking for too.

A therapist with a passion for helping adults build self-worth to reduce symptoms of Anxiety and Depression. Self-worth is an important part of our mental health, because lacking self-worth means that we never feel good enough, despite our best efforts. You may be someone that worries about what others think about you, you may fear making mistakes, put pressure on yourself to please others, doubt yourself a lot of the time and you may hide parts of yourself away from the world. The thoughts and behaviours linked to having low self-worth can leave us feeling exhausted, anxious, angry or depressed.

Hello, you may be finding it difficult to cope at the moment and feeling overwhelmed and swamped with life's pressures. Perhaps you have suffered a loss, a trauma or are struggling to make sense of your present or past experiences. Does it feel like you have too many anxious thoughts on your mind and are finding it hard to prioritise or want to escape?

I aim to support any adult, child, young person, family or organisation to maximise their potential and effectively manage the difficulties that life often brings. I believe that by building an understanding of your social, emotional, psychological and physical needs, you can be supported to feel safe, ready to cope and able to achieve the goals that matter to you. My aim will be to help you to explore your needs, to better understand the difficulties you face and to provide tailored psychological support, based on a wide range of evidence based interventions to help develop solutions that work for you.

I qualified as a Person-Centred Counsellor in 2013 and feel privileged to work with adults, couples and young people. I am also a qualified supervisor having the pleasure to supervise both trainee and qualified counsellors. I offer a safe, caring and respectful relationship in which you are offered the space to explore self in ways which feel comfortable for you. Counselling can help with a wide range of issues including relationships, work-related matters, loneliness, sexuality, spirituality, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, abuse,trauma, illness, loss and bereavement.

I help people to overcome their past, so that they can embrace their future. So often, the things we are struggling with in life, can be linked back to our early life experiences or difficult life events, which can have a huge impact on how we feel about ourselves, our relationships with others and our overall well being. My goal is to help my clients understand and make sense of their past experiences and explore how their current difficulties may fit into this. I help them to learn new skills and break old patterns so that they can reclaim the life that they want.