Training and Qualifications

BEd Honours Degree

FdA (Distinction) in Therapeutic Counselling

Postgraduate Certificate in Creative therapies for children and families

Post qualifying training in Encounter Centred Couples Therapy

Post qualifying training in Generational Therapy

Regular Continuous Professional Development, including training in:

Attachment

Trauma

Gestalt

TA

Solution-focussed

Working with the Inner Child

Working with anger

Working at Relational Depth

Roles played in families

Self-Compassion

Working safely online

Working with Young People

Self-harm and suicide

Many creative approaches; e.g. sand tray, nesting dolls, puppets, art work, clay.

My Experience

Before training in Counselling, I worked in education as a teacher and in various church contexts as a youth and children’s worker and women’s ministry leader.  Having completed my degree in Integrative Counselling I worked for a Young Peoples Charity (Teens in Crisis), in a number of local schools both primary and secondary. I then established my own private Counselling Practice in Cheltenham, offering counselling to both adults and young people. This was very successful as I never needed to advertise, all my referrals came via recommendations. I then went on to complete a year’s training in Couples coaching and began offering extended counselling sessions to couples with a view to seeing transformation in their relationship. Having moved to the south coast, I continue to offer individual counselling; online and in person. I am also able to offer an even more effective approach to couples therapy; a 3-day Marriage Retreat. This offers the opportunity for real, transformative, before-and-after change.

Areas I specialise in or have experience in:

 Anxiety & Stress

 Depression & low mood

 Bereavement & loss

 Self-harm & suicidal thoughts

 Spiritual abuse,

 Exploring meaning and purpose in life,

 Autistic spectrum/ADHD,

 Abuse whether that be physical, sexual, psychological or spiritual (historic)

 Relational issues,

 Religious and spiritual issues

 Personal growth and development