Individual Therapy

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Are you looking for a warm, understanding, and empathic professional to help you to navigate tough times and overwhelming emotions? Is it sometimes hard to talk about your difficulties?  I offer a space where you will be heard and begin your journey towards healing.    

 

I aim create an open and safe environment where you can share thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment. I understand that taking the first step to seeking a more fulfilling and happier life takes courage. I will not tell you what to do, but through careful exploration I will help you to find clarity to your individual situation, giving you the courage to make changes or acceptance where you can not. 

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I have experience in helping clients with a wide range of difficulties including relationship issues, trauma and abuse, coping with grief and loss, anxiety, and depression.  As a former special education tutor, I also have extensive experience of working with individuals with autism spectrum conditions, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and learning needs such as dyslexia and dyspraxia.  

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My therapeutic style is truly eclectic, drawing on techniques from person-centred counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy, and expressive therapies (for example, art, music, movement and story making.) I have undertaken extensive additional training to enable me to work safely with traumatised clients, including the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as “Tapping therapy” as it involves tapping various points on the body which helps to alleviate difficult emotions and/or physical pain.  

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Outside of the therapy room, I enjoy martial arts, running and yoga. I am also a member of Playback Theatre, a global theatre movement where actors perform audience members' stories. 

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Couple Therapy

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In couple therapy sessions, I work with both partners to explore difficulties in their relationship or navigate challenges, stresses, or changes together.  Discussing such challenges in a safe and supportive space can help each partner to find a deeper level of empathy and understanding.  Couple therapy can help partners to identify underlying feelings, uncover relationship strengths, heal past wounds, and learn new tools and techniques to resolve differences and feel more connected.  

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Expressive Arts Therapies

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Prior to becoming a counsellor, I have been an actor, a dance and drama teacher, a lecturer in a specialist college for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism spectrum conditions, and an assistant to an Art Therapist in Singapore.  My interest in the arts shifted from performing myself to using the arts as a way to heal emotional difficulties and I incorporate creativity into my therapeutic work where appropriate.  If you can't find the words, we can work in other ways.  For example, mark making using soft pastels, drawing, story making, body movement, using music, or writing.  No special skill is needed as there is no "right" way to be creative.  

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Qualifications & Training

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Person-Centred Expressive Arts Therapies – creative writing, story making, movement, music/sound, art/mark making, creative narrative therapy 

Level 3 Working with Trauma

Applied Emotional Freedom Technique (body tapping).  This technique is beneficial for areas such as trauma, phobias, anxiety, panic, low mood, “stuck” emotions/feelings, addictions, motivation/confidence, self-esteem

NHS Talking Therapies Couple Therapy for Depression

National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society affiliated Couple Therapy diploma