Experience

I’m an experienced United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registered psychotherapist and have been working with clients for ten years.

As a registered member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) I abide by their Code of Ethics and Professional Practice; the UKCP sets the ethical standards for psychotherapists in the UK.  

Prior to establishing my private practice, I worked for over three years at the West London Centre for Counselling, an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) funded agency.

As part of my psychotherapy training, I undertook a ten-week Mental Health Familiarisation Placement at two hostels in South-east London with Look Ahead. In one of the hostels, I set up a weekly drop-in service where people who may have experienced homelessness and had contact with psychiatric services could have a space to talk about different areas of their lives.

Over the years, I have worked with clients in short-term, medium-term and long-term therapy. I’ve been privileged to work with many clients of differing ages, genders, sexualities (or none), ethnicities, abilities/disabilities, nationalities and social-cultural backgrounds as well as those who hold religious beliefs or no belief. 

I have strong experience in facilitating therapy relationships with clients from diverse backgrounds; sitting with and supporting them in their struggles, moments of sadness, frustration, anger, hope, joy and growth. Some of the issues I have experience of working with include:

I meet regularly with my practice supervisor to review my work, to ensure I’m practising ethically and working in the best possible way as your therapist. I also hold professional indemnity insurance.

I undertake regular continuing professional development activities to keep up-to-date with developments and contemporary research in the fields of psychotherapy and counselling. I have received training for working sensitively with clients with neurodivergent ways of being and self-describe as neurodivergent. In 2019, I established the Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity Community of Practice Group for the Person-centred Association.

As a requirement of my postgraduate psychotherapy training, I completed a qualitative research project exploring the experiences of heterosexual person-centred psychotherapists/counsellors working with LGBQ clients (including transgender and non-binary clients who were LGBQ). Conducting this research has enabled me to gain specialist experience of this practice area. My research has recently been published as a journal article for the Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies journal

I have also run specialist training on Queer Experiencing and Trauma for a recent person-centred trauma conference series with Online Events.

In addition to my private practice, I work as a viva examiner (MSc in Humanistic Psychotherapy) and a research dissertation assessor (MSc in Contemporary Person-centred Psychotherapy and Applications) both at the Metanoia Institute. I am available to offer one-to-one and small group tuition on person-centred theory and practice for those in training or for humanistic and integrative therapists wishing to re-visit and/or develop their experience of person-centred therapy.

Before undertaking psychotherapy/counselling training and practice, I worked in the Higher Education sector for a number of years. For two years, I also worked as a Volunteer Mentor with the Albert Kennedy Trust where I met weekly with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) homeless young people on a one-to-one basis, supporting them with day-to-day issues and their personal development.