My early professional working years were spent as a General Nurse within both Hospital and the Community. I spent over twenty years as a Director running a Franchise, with responsibility for the Personnel Function, Sales and Business Development.
Much of my counselling experience has been in my Private Practice which I started in 2010. I have worked for a variety of Counselling Services and Organisations including Medical Sectors and Hospice Settings, Government Council Organisations, Police and Primary Care for a not-for-profit provider of Talking Therapies UK, funded by the NHS Trust.
I have facilitated a support group for Women Living with Secondary Breast Cancer for a National Charitable Organisation.
As an integrative practitioner I draw upon and offer a range of theoretical approaches which recognise one approach does not fit all.
My approach draws from and is based on Humanistic, Person Centred theories and is integrated with Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness strategies and techniques.
My aim to be sensitive to the cultural and ethnic origins of people’s religious beliefs and sexual orientation.
I am an accredited member of the BACP and am bound by its ethical framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy and subject to its professional conduct.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the regulatory body for counselling within the UK. I have also completed the following training:
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