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My Approach

My training and work as a therapist has always drawn on a wide range of approaches. The way I work today is largely based on Conversational Psychotherapy. This approach integrates many different therapeutic strands into one coherent, flexible framework. It’s especially good for ensuring that your changes in therapy will ‘stick’, and that you leave with a strong, confident and resilient sense of self.

Conversational Psychotherapy is one of the best validated approaches to therapy. It combines aspects of neuroscience, developmental psychology and trauma-theory, as well as drawing from other disciplines such as linguistics.

Despite its name, this way of working is not an ‘everyday chat’. It will involve us taking both a wider-than-usual perspective on your life, and also conducting a more forensic examination of the details. But the overall aim is for our conversations to feel comfortable and approachable, as we work towards the changes you wish to see in your life and yourself.

About Me

I work with adults of all ages (there is no upper age-limit for achieving change in therapy), and specialise in resolving issues related to trauma and PTSD. I have particular expertise in supporting those on the autistic spectrum, and adults who went to boarding school.

I've been working as a psychotherapist and counsellor since 2011. I help people:
* Overcome trauma, and find peace and healing
* Find relief from anxiety and depression
* Transform anger and low self-esteem
* Navigate bereavement, divorce, and other difficult life experiences
* Find the courage to live richly and fully

I work with

  • Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

After a trauma, sometimes the event can feel incredibly vivid and dominate our thoughts. Other times it can seem dissociated or unreal. Our memories of it may be quite fragmentary. Sleep can be quite disturbed, and we can feel tearful or on edge for some time afterwards. Usually these symptoms diminish over some weeks or months, once the brain has processed and assimilated the experience into memory. However, on average about a third of trauma survivors will develop what we now term “PTSD”, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is where the traumatic event doesn’t get ‘filed away’ properly into the brain’s long-term memory banks. Therapy can also help you incorporate new information or perspectives into your understanding of a trauma, where necessary. I am extensively trained in a variety of trauma approaches. And I am a qualified practitioner in the “Rewind technique”, a highly effective (and fast) treatment for PTSD symptoms such as flashbacks and nightmares.
When people think of trauma, they often picture a single, catastrophic event. But trauma can come from childhood, from adulthood, from a difficult relationship, or from years of never really feeling safe. Many people carry wounds that come from a longer pattern of being dismissed, silenced, abandoned, manipulated, or violated. Whether your trauma is something you’ve known about for years or are just now beginning to recognise, you don’t have to carry it alone. I have completed comprehensive, specialist training with some of the world’s leading trauma experts. I am able to work safely and effectively to help you resolve all types of trauma and PTSD, including complex trauma, developmental trauma, dissociation, and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). No matter what you’ve experienced or how acutely it’s affecting you, together we can find your path to peace and healing.

Types of Therapies Offered

  • Humanistic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

  • Abuse
  • Age-related Issues
  • Autism
  • Bereavement
  • Cultural Issues
  • Depression
  • Family
  • Identity Problems
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Online Counselling
  • Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Spirituality
  • Terminal Illness
  • Trauma

Types of sessions

  • Face to Face - Long Term
  • Face to Face - Short Term
  • Online Therapy

Office

Hay Counselling
16 Castle Street
HR3 5DF
United Kingdom (UK)

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Cost:

£80

UKCP College

  • Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC)
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