When we are suffering or need to make a life-changing decision it is likely that we would talk to family and friends for advice or simply to 'off-load.' This can be a positive and productive way of resolving our difficulties. However, it doesn't always work. Indeed there may not be friends or family around; we may not want to look weak or vulnerable to others; families and friends can be too emotionally involved and want what they think is best for us; we may not want to worry others. Keeping worries to ourselves is unhealthy and unproductive: we can lose sleep, energy and our thoughts can become tangled and muddled.

Counselling and psychotherapy can help untangle thoughts, illuminate areas of distress and help you understand yourself better. Counselling and psychotherapy is not about telling you what to do but helping, guiding, supporting you to make your own decisions. I offer a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space in which you can do this. I would see you initially for an assessment session to see if I can help and you want to work with me. I would then see you for as little or as many sessions as you need.

I work from an integrative/relational model of counselling and psychotherapy. This briefly means drawing on all schools of counselling, humanistic/ person-centred, psychodynamic, behaviorist and transpersonal which I see as my ‘bag of tools’. However, my core belief and basis from which I work is centered on the relationship between my client and myself. This entails providing a non-judgmental, confidential, respectful and safe place where you can explore your issues. These may be conscious and in the "here and now" or may involve some deeper exploration into past experiences, long forgotten and unhealed, which may be linked to the present.