NCFE Level 1 Award in Interpersonal Skills

NCFE CACHE Level 2 Award in Helping Skills

NCFE CACHE Level 3 Award in Counselling Skills and Theory

Foundation Degree (FdSc) in Integrative Counselling 

Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling

Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II: Complex Trauma (CCTP-II) - In Progress

Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision - In Progress

Certificate in Mental Health and the Body: Treating Trauma

Certificate in Trauma and the Body: Dissociation and Somatisation 

Certificate in Working with Shame 

Certificate in Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing 

Certificate in Dissociation and DID: The Fundamentals 

Certificate in Working with Relational Trauma: Dealing with Disorganised Attachment 

Certificate in Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice 

Certificate in Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-Harm

I also complete regular CPD (Continued Professional Development):

CPD Workshop: Nurturing Mums - Supporting and Understanding Post Natal Care

CPD course: All You Need to Know About Assessments When Working with Trauma.

CPD course: Supervision for those New to Private Practice 

CPD course: Learn Time Management & Achieve Goals in Your Personal & Professional Life

CPD course: Learn How to Stop Nightmares Using the Dream Completion Technique

CPD course: Social Surgery: How to Create Social Media Posts that Convert

CPD course: Vagal Toning for Therapy(ists) - Andrea Davies

CPD Workshop - The House of Healing and Other Houses

CPD Workshop - Post Traumatic Strength: Self-Regulation

CPD Workshop: The Trauma and Fear Continuum

CPD Workshop: Anger Energy Vs Aggression

CPD Workshop - Down the Rabbit Hole

CPD course: Nurturing Mums - Kate Blakemore

CPD Course: 3-Day Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

CPD Workshop: The Drama Triangle - Matthew Elton

CPD Workshop: Practical Steps to Canva and Lumen5 - Karin Brauner

CPD Workshop: Practical Steps to Blogging Part 1 - Karin Brauner

CPD Workshop: Practical Steps to Blogging Part 2 - Karin Brauner

CPD Workshop: Imposter Syndrome: Good Enough Counsellors Workshop

CPD Workshop: The Inner Critic: Good Enough Counsellors Workshop

CPD Workshop: Menopause Matters - Joanna Groves 

CPD Workshop: Menopause Matters: Implications for Therapists and Clients - Joanna Groves

CPD Webinar: A Matter of Death and Life - Irvin Yalom

CPD Workshop: Personalising Psychotherapy - Mick Cooper & John Norcross

CPD Workshop: Shame and Single Session Therapy with Windy Dryden

CPD Workshop: Exploring Self Compassion Using Creative Techniques

CPD Webinar: Tackling Unhelpful Thinking Styles

CPD Webcast: A Short Guide to What Every Psychological Therapist Should Know About Working with Psychiatric Drugs

CPD Webinar: Common Challenges and Practical Strategies for Adults with ADHD - ADDitude

CPD Webinar: Addressing Grief, Loss, and Trauma Experienced as a Result of COVID-19

CPD Webinar: The Inner Child - Josephine Hughes and Samantha Lees

CPD Webinar: No Shame in Being Bad at Stuff - Josephine Hughes

Get Clients with Facebook Pages

CPD Webinar: Becoming Self-Employed - Olivia Harrison - BACP

CPD Webinar: Traditional Marketing Tools - Martin Hogg - BACP

CPD Webinar: What Factors Influence a Client’s Choice of Counsellor in Private Practice - Julie May - BACP

CPD Webinar: Financial Considerations - Tej Gawera - BACP

CPD Webinar: Using and Getting The Most Out of Social Media - Cassie Hicks - BACP

CPD Workshop: Couple Therapy -  Pamela Seraskeris - The Australian College of Applied Psychology

CPD Course: Domestic Abuse

CPD Webinar: Working with Survivors of Domestic Abuse and Violence - Jeannette Roddy - BACP

CPD Webinar: Domestic Abuse Awareness - Deborah Cartwright - BACP

CPD Webinar: Domestic Violence - Antonella Zottola - BACP

CPD Webinar: Common Mistakes - Martin Hogg - BACP

CPD Webinar: Can you Hear Me? Deafness and Counselling - Victoria Nelson - BACP

CPD Webinar: Social Media - A DIY Guide on Instagram

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - Finance - Humber Business Growth Hub’s Start-up Support Service

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - Online Marketing - Humber Business Growth Hub’s Start-up Support Service

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - Wellbeing - Humber Business Growth Hub’s Start-up Support Service

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - Premises - Humber Business Growth Hub’s Start-up Support Service

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - Regulations - Humber Business Growth Hub’s Start-up Support Service

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - Social Media - Humber Business Growth Hub’s Start-up Support Service

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - Marketing

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - GDPR

CPD Masterclass: Business Planning - Website

CPD Masterclass: Time Management - The 7 Habits for Highly Effective Time Management

CPD Masterclass: Social Media - The Essex Collective Instagram Masterclass

CPD Workshop: Procrastination - Pushing Through Procrastination - The University of York

CPD Workshop: Performance Anxiety - The RSM & BAPAM Performance Anxiety and Conscious Breathing (British Association for Performing Arts Medicine)

CPD Webinar: Living Well - The Art and the Science of the Good Life (Dr Selda Koydemir)

CPD Webinar: Anxiety: Open House on Anxiety: skills and strategies from experts to help you thrive

CPD Webinar: Productivity - Work Smarter

CPD Masterclass: Positive Psychology with Ramsey County Community Human Services

CPD Webinar: Overwhelming Emotions - Distortion and Defences

CPD Webinar: Love and Letting Go - Inner Space

CPD Webinar: Complex Grief - BACP

CPD Workshop: Anger, Frustration and Irritation

CPD Webinar: Turn Hurt into Healing - Dr. Kala Iyengar 

CPD Webinar: ADHD - Time Management During Covid-19 - ADDitude

CPD Webinar: Journaling for Wellbeing - hosted by Prana

CPD Webinar: CBT - Tackling Unhelpful Thinking Styles in Clients and Ourselves as Therapists (Practical CBT)

CPD Workshop: Social Hub 90 Day Planning Workshop by Be More Social.

CPD Workshop: Get Clients With Facebook Pages - Josephine Hughes

CPD Workshop: Make 2022 Your Year 

CPD Coaching: Creating a Profile Directory - Josephine Hughes

CPD Webinar: Why Pronouns Matter - Lucy Baines-Ball - BACP

CPD Webinar: Beyond Now - Cutting Edge Coaching - Claire Breeze - BACP

CPD Webinar: Copywriting crash course: essential skills for crafting effective copy - Ruth Clowes - BACP

CPD Webinar: Getting Online - Martin Hogg - BACP

CPD Webinar: Networking - Anne Stokes - BACP

CPD Webinar: How to maximise your therapeutic skillset to benefit you in the wider business market - Gill Fennings-Monkman - BACP

CPD Webinar: Common Pitfalls When Setting Up in Private Practice - Andrew Harvey - BACP

CPD Webinar: Counselling - What Are You Offering? - Martin Hogg - BACP

CPD Webinar: Getting the Most From Your Supervision - Stephen Hitchcock - BACP

CPD Webinar: Introduction to Marketing - Martin Hogg - BACP

CPD Webinar: Branding in Practice - Indira Chima - BACP

CPD Webinar: If Counselling Changes Lives, How Can We Make a Difference? - David Weaver - BACP

CPD Webinar: Creative Approaches to Therapeutic Communication - Ani de la Prida - BACP

CPD Webinar: Managing Digital Burnout - Nicola Neath - BACP

CPD Webinar: ‘All the World’s a Stage’ - Helping Clients Manage and Make New Meaning of Complex Roles - Alexandra Piotrowska - BACP

CPD Webinar: A Writing Space - Scribing the Soul - Jeannie Wright - BACP

CPD Webinar: Coaching for Mental Health - David Britten - BACP

CPD Webinar: Grow Your Own EAP - Sharon McCormick - BACP

CPD Webinar: How to Set Up a Website Using Wordpress - Jamie Marsland - BACP

CPD Webinar: Safeguarding and Managing Risk Through Digital Media - Lynne Gabriel, Jules Prentice, Kath Caffrey - BACP

CPD Webinar: Trauma Support for Staff in an Acute Hospital - Cindi Bedor - BACP

CPD Webinar: Young People’s Barriers To Accessing Services - Brandi Lee Lough Dennell - BACP

CPD Webinar: Women's Perceptions of Miscarriage Decades After the Event - Lois de Cruz - BACP

CPD Workshop: Supervising Therapists Who are Working with Harm in Therapy

CPD Workshop: Curiosity and Creativity: Working Innovatively with The Seven Eyed Model

CPD Workshop: The Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision According to Winnie the Pooh

CPD Workshop: Working with the ‘I Don’t Know’ Client

CPD Workshop: From Creative Overwhelm to Creative Safety

CPD Workshop: Finding the Inner Child - Navigating Anxiety and Uncertainty

CPD Workshop: Neurodivergent Procrastination and Inertia

CPD Workshop: Tap, Heal, Thrive: Journey with Emotional Freedom Technique

CPD Workshop: Masking and Unmasking in Neurodivergence

CPD Workshop: ADHD Treatment Pyramid

CPD Workshop: Monitoring and Reviewing Supervision

CPD Workshop: Birth Trauma

CPD Workshop: Working with Suicide

CPD Workshop: The Wheel of Wellbeing

CPD Workshop: Breath Work in Therapy

No, you can self-refer

Your appointment will be 50 minutes.

Appointments are £60 per 50-minute appointment.

I offer a few concessionary rate spaces to frontline workers, students and trainee counsellors who are in financial hardship. Please contact me to find out more.

Yes, sessions are weekly.

I see most of my clients on a longer-term basis but understand this isn’t possible for everyone. I suggest we have the initial consultation together so that we can meet, discuss what is going on for you and discuss your needs. If short-term counselling is the only option for you, I recommend a minimum of 6 sessions. We can review the sessions every few week to see how you feel you are getting on.

All appointments are online via Zoom video platform.

I work with those aged 17 and above.

Make sure you are in a private space where you cannot be overheard or interrupted. Please ensure the place you choose has good internet signal and you have your camera on throughout the call.

No I will not give you homework to complete, however we may sometimes talk about something and I may suggest you think about it further during the week or try putting into practice something we have spoken about. Sometimes you may find this useful, other times you may find life gets in the way or maybe you simply forget. All of these responses are ok and will unlikely get in the way of future sessions, but it is important to remember that generally the more you put into therapy, the more you will get out of it.

I understand that for a lot of people, reaching out for help can feel overwhelming or even impossible. You are welcome to contact me to ask about my availability and give me your overview of the situation, but I will then need your friend or family member to contact me directly following this initial contact to confirm an appointment. The appointments are one-to-one and confidential so you will not be able to join your friend / family member for the appointment.

It is very unusual I need to breach confidentiality, however examples of when I may need to include: being particularly concerned about your welfare or that of someone else.

I also attend regular supervision and will discuss our work together, but will keep your anonymity at all times.