I am an experienced integrative psychotherapist, acccredited by UPCA and UKCP and I have a postgraduate diploma in supervision. My approach is relational and collaborative to support growth and change. I combine psychodynamic theoretical approaches with gestalt, somatic aproaches and understandings from neuroscience. This way of working takes account of how we are shaped by our pasts and current circumstances, relationships and the wider field of our experiences. Change occurs through establishing a safe therapeutic relationship that allows us to explore what is troubling you and let go of old ways of being that are no longer serving you well.

 

​My additional qualifications are: diploma in relational supervision, masters degree in social work, BSc(hons)degree in psychology and anthropology, postgraduate diploma parent infant psychotherapy, postgraduate diploma infant observation and psychoanalytic studies, foundation training group analysis. I am fully insured and registered with the ICO.

My experience includes working as a university counsellor for students and staff and as a psychotherapist in the voluntary sector. I have worked for Parent Infant Partnerships (PIPS), offering psychotherapy for parents and babies together and in therapy groups. Following my initial training in social work, I worked for many years in the NHS in child and adolescent mental health services and a specialist therapy service for looked after children and their foster carers and adoptive parents.

I regularly undertake training and attend workshops to further my skills and I am a qualified supervisor of counsellors and psychotherapists. I have experience of training psychotherapists, counsellors and related professionals.

Understanding the sociocultural context and challenging my own cultural privelege is a priority. I am committed to further training  and to working creatively and holistically with you.

My practice as a psychotherapist is supported by yoga, qigong, mindfulness meditation, singing and being in nature.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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