A little about me

As a practitioner with over 30 years experience of mental health including work in the community, voluntary and private sectors and secure hospitals, I am pretty unshockable but open to be surprised! 

I am averse to professional masks but for those who are interested I have an honours degree (BSc) in Psychology and Counselling Psychology and have undertaken further postgraduate training in Psychotherapy and Counselling (MA). 

I subscribe to a basic humanistic-existential philosophy and believe passionately in equality, self-acceptance, authenticity, independence and self-determination. 

I believe that we are all a work in progress and no one is ever 'fixed' but all of us on our own individual path towards becoming ourselves. I am on that path too, am committed to continued self-work, have so far been in therapy for 40 years and will never consider myself 'sorted'. I aim to work with humility, being fully aware that my own 'high horse' actually has no legs. 

As a therapist, I favour a permissive and facilitative approach  in which you are always the authority on yourself. I never know best and will not give advice or tell you what to do. 

I believe in working simultaneously with the mind, body emotions and energy system in a truly holistic way that honours the totality of who you are. 

And I believe that the success of any therapeutic endeavour relies primarily on the quality of the relationship between therapist and client. So I aim to offer a safe, consistent, reliable therapeutic relationship to hold and facilitate the unfolding of your own unique path to become your Self.