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Specialises in

• Counselling

• Psychotherapy

About me

Do you ever feel like you're isolated? Or that you can't talk to the people around you because they wouldn't understand? Or perhaps you worry that you'll bring them down, or that they won't understand or dismiss what you're feeling. Maybe they have expectations of you that you can't fulfil at the moment because you're not functioning, you don't feel any enjoyment anymore and you worry that you won't be the same person again. Maybe you feel stuck.

If so, I can help you rebuild your relationship with yourself, and help you understand why you are feeling this way. I can help you nurture a more compassionate understanding of what you're going through and we can work on ways on managing difficult feelings, building coping strategies and get some peace from what you have been through. We can explore why - why this happened, why you feel like this, why you may feel like you did something to cause this.

I can offer you a safe, holding space to explore whatever issues have led you to seek support. I strongly believe in the importance of the therapeutic relationship between the client and therapist to aid and facilitate change or to help support during a period of transition in your life. I specialise particularly in the area of trauma and bereavement and loss, including long-term bereavement, traumatic loss and disenfranchised grief (grief not recognised as grief).

Over the last 20 years my experience as a psychotherapist/counsellor has enabled me to work in a variety of settings, including Primary Care and Community based counselling services. I am a UKCP accredited Integrative Psychotherapist and an EMDR therapist.

Please feel free to contact me for a no-obligation 15 minute telephone call to see if you'd like to work together.

Areas of interest

Psychotherapy; Counselling; Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR); Short-term Solution Focussed Therapy;

Abuse; Anxiety; Bereavement including Adults Bereaved as children; Long-term bereavement; Bereavement and complicated relationships; Bereavement through baby/child loss; Bereavement through suicide; Traumatic Bereavement; Sudden Bereavement; Loss including non-bereavement loss; Stress; Family related stress; Work related Stress; Trauma; Childhood Trauma; Single Incident Trauma; Complex Trauma; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); Relationship issues; Identity issues; Infertility; Self-esteem; Depression;

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Oncology
• Psychophysiological disorders

• Fertility Issues

• Trauma