It’s a talking therapy, providing you with dedicated time in a respectful, confidential space in which you might feel safe enough to talk about your experiences and feelings to make sense of them and understand yourself, alleviating emotional distress, conflict or overwhelm. It offers an opportunity to address one specific issue, current challenges or more complex difficulties.

Counselling is self-development work, a journey of self-discovery, growth and change in which you may get to know yourself in a new and different way.

Based on theory developed by psychologist Carl Rogers, person-centred theory suggests that people naturally strive for fulfilment and to reach their true potential. A therapeutic alliance based on equality, respect and trust, it emphasises empathy, unconditional acceptance and genuineness, creating a supportive and non-judgmental therapeutic environment.

By gaining personal insight you may understand yourself better and gain clarity on your feelings about yourself, others, situations or relationships. The therapeutic process can facilitate the discovery of previously unrecognised aspects of yourself and a move toward self-acceptance. You may develop resilience, manage emotions better, embrace choice, make decisions easier, cope with difficulties, learn to trust yourself, increase self-worth and make lasting changes.

Each client has unique experiences and varying needs at different times. Sessions focus on what is significant to you, the agenda is flexible to accommodate changes in your priorities.

I offer counselling support for clients going through life’s challenges and difficult times such as bereavement, anxiety, depression, anger, jealousy, stress, loneliness, change, loss, relationship problems, psychological, financial, physical and sexual abuse, lack of self-worth and trauma.

Certain topics fall outside my professional expertise for providing counselling support. In such cases, I will inform you and direct you to appropriate resources or support services.

I offer a single session (SST) addressing a specific issue and outcome, short term counselling for a here and now problem or challenge and longer-term counselling to explore in-depth issues.

I use Zoom for online sessions and will provide full details when we arrange our counselling sessions. For scheduled telephone sessions, I will contact you at the agreed date and time. For our session, you will need to be somewhere without distractions, where you will not be disturbed or overheard.

You always have the right to end counselling whenever you want to.