Helping with issues such as
- Abuse
- Alcoholism
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Bullying
- Childhood Issues
- Depression
- Domestic Abuse
- Drug Abuse/Addictions
- Emotional Abuse
- Health problems
- Illness or disability
- Low self-esteem/confidence
- Redundancy
- Relationship issues
- Separation and divorce
- Sexuality
- Stress
- Trauma
- Work related issues
It always seems impossible until it's done
In Therapy...
There are many reasons to seek counselling and psychotherapy. You might be experiencing stress, feeling depressed, anxious, or low. Maybe a relationship issue is playing on your mind or you have not worked through past trauma or abuse. Whether the issue is from your past or present or you are worried about your future, talking about it and exploring what else is on your mind might help.
You can talk about things that may be causing you pain, discomfort, making you feel angry or unhappy. This is an opportunity to think and talk about yourself and your concerns in a way that you might often feel you cannot do with other people in your life.
Ultimately, my aim is to create a haven where you are not judged.
I cannot tell you what to do and nor would I want too. I want to help alleviate your distress and help you feel empowered by understanding yourself and to feel strength in making your own decisions, taking control of your situation, and leading a happier life.
Services and Therapies Available
Psychodynamic Therapy
This therapy developed from psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies. Psychodynamic therapy attempts to understand the reasons behind your distress and difficulties. With this approach, we would explore your childhood experiences, attachment relationships and how these might be impacting you and your life now and any anxieties you might have about the future. Your early experiences shape the way you would relate to people in present day. A lot of our way of being operates outside of our conscious awareness. We will work together so you gain insight and make links, to develop more self-awareness and understand yourself better.
From £80 per 50 minute session
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)
From £80 per 50 minute session
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
I am also trained in Attachment Informed EMDR, EMDR and Addictions, working with Parts with EMDR, Intergenerational Trauma, Dreams and FLASH technique.
Our body has a way of healing itself when injured. EMDR therapy states that the mind too self-heals over time, usually in the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep where most of our dreaming takes place. Noticeably, our eyes dart left to right during this sleep stage. Usually we manage new information without being aware of it. However, if we were to experience some sort of trauma, our normal coping mechanisms might become overloaded, meaning the brain may not process the information like a “normal” memory. This could mean the distressing experience becomes “frozen” and unprocessed in our brain.
These unprocessed memories are stored in the limbic system of the brain in an emotional form rather than a verbal mode and are maintained in an isolated memory network associated with emotions and physical sensations. These memories are disconnected from the brain’s cortex where we use language to store memories and can be triggered by experiencing similar events. A person then might “re-experience” what they saw, felt, heard, smelt, or tasted. Sometimes my clients cannot remember the events but report painful feelings such as panic, anxiety, and anger.
By using bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements (similar to REM sleep), alternating tapping or audio stimulation, my job is to assist your self-healing by unblocking or unfreezing distressing images or trauma in your brain’s information processing system and bring these to an adaptive resolution. Other associated memories that need healing may heal at the same time. My clients report at the end of their treatment that EMDR has helped them to recall memories that were once disturbing with less intensity. They find that they can leave the trauma where it belongs, in their past and describe it now as a neutral memory.
EMDR is backed by vast research and as such is recommended by NICE guidelines as an effective treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and is also used to treat a range of psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, physical pain, road traffic collisions, and abuse relief to name a few.
From £80 per 50 minute session
Clinical Supervision and Professional support
From £80 per 50 minute session
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Critical Incident Support
Please contact me to discuss a bespoke package to help contain and manage the impact of trauma on your employees.
common questions
50 minutes per session
Yes, I am registered with the major insurance companies such as Axa and Aviva. Please check directly with your insurance provider to see if you are covered.
Most clients attend once a week. After a therapeutic relationship has been established, and the client has made progress, fortnightly sessions are an option.
Yes, unless there is a risk of harm to you, or someone else. I would discuss with you, where possible, if I ever have to break confidentiality.
You can use the contact form, email or call me.
From £80 a session for self funding clients. For insurance referrals, please check with your provider if you have to pay an excess fee.
I always encourage people to contact a few therapists, by email or call. By doing this, usually people are drawn to a particular therapist.
This is difficult to say, as we are all different, trying to work through different issues. We can discuss this during the initial assessment sessions. Some clients know how many sessions they can afford, in which case, we discuss together which issues we need to prioritise and aim to work on these within our timeframe.
I offer video sessions to reach a wider client base. For in person sessions, I have an office close to the City Centre on New Walk.