About
About Me
I am passionate about my work and find great fulfillment in supporting people to remove their obstacles to growth and live authentic, fulfilling and wholesome lives, aligned with their values and true to themselves.
Symptoms and discomfort are often signals that our life is somewhere misaligned, we may have suffered a loss or going through a significant transition leaving us wondering who we are and shaking our sense of self.
Sometimes unfinished business from the past is triggered and impacts our life today.
My fundamental value is that as humans we have what we need to be whole and content, and that we are guided by our 'physis' is a strong inner force, continuously propelling us towards growth and fulfilment.
We are relational beings, born out of relationship and flourishing when we connect. The therapeutic relationship offers what a good quality human relationship can; to be alongside a person whilst they are healing, grappling with life and finding themselves. To listen, to challenge, to contain, to encourage, to lend hope.
This is what I seek to offer my clients, bringing with me my lived experience and philosophy of life, as well as my robust training and years of practice. Alongside a vibrant practice, I have also been a trainer to counsellors and psychotherapist in a reputable organisation for the last 11 years, training people at high level, and running thematic experiential and taught workshops as well as therapy groups.
Qualifications
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Accreditations
Post graduate Diploma (PGDiP) in Intersubjective Psychotherapy, Newman University, Birmingham
Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy, Northern Guild
Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, Northern Guild
Diploma in Clinical Supervision, Northern Guild
Certificate in Couples Counselling, The Link Centre
Certificate in Yoga Teacher Training, 200 hours, Yoga Alliance Professionals (YAP)
Philosophy of Practice
My modality is Humanistic Integrative. The core model of my training is Transactional Analysis.
The premise of Transactional analysis is that our personality is made up of three parts, called Ego States: namely the Parent, the Adult and the Child.
At times we may feel and act like our parents did, and at times we may feel and act like we did as a child, reacting to situations that remind us of the past as we would have reacted as children.
Sometimes we respond to life from the here and now with appropriate reactions, in Adult Ego State.
The goal of therapy is to achieve autonomy, which is comprised by the three qualities of intimacy, spontaneity and awareness;
These qualities help us live the life we were always meant to live and be who we were going to be, which may have been thwarted by our life experiences. In my approach, I integrate TA with other modalities to create a coherent system of therapy for each client, with the therapeutic relationship in the centre.
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
C.G. Jung