Where and how much

Face to face in Market Harborough and Uppingham.

Online via Zoom

£70 per session

Me

People say I am gentle, calm and safe.

I offer counselling and psychotherapy for adults both face to face and online.

I generally take a fairly organic and holistic approach to psychotherapy and counselling. I am very much there with you in the room. I am not a blank slate. There will be no lying on a couch for you with me out of view (unless that is what you want).

I am able to stay calm under pressure and with difficult subjects. I hope that this means that I have the depth to hold you through difficult times.

I am a UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registered psychotherapist. I am a member of the Humanistic and Integrative College at the UKCP and I trained in the modality of Transactional Analysis (TA). Please see the FAQ for more about this.

I was for twenty or so years a lawyer in a stressful job. Oddly, I never really wanted to be a lawyer but I can appreciate with hindsight the benefits I gained from that career, even though overall it was not truly fulfilling for me.

My therapy journey began many years ago when I began to look into myself. This led me into my own therapy, to reading around the subject and then eventually into training. Having had therapy for so many years I know what it is like to be the client. Also, as a very wise therapist of mine said to me, in order to sort out your sh*t, I have to have sorted mine first. Actually, that is one of the cornerstones of any good training, that we have therapy for a long time.

Moving from law to therapy is a bit like going from yin to yang. From an emphasis on being objective, analytical and without emotion to more often than not dealing with emotions and being empathetic. I rather hope now that I can traverse the full circle.

I am a great believer in the deep connection between mind and body. Indeed I would say that it is all one system. And this belief is with me at a deep, bodily and emotional level of understanding because I suffered with CFS/ME (chronic fatigue syndrome aka myalgic encephalomyelitis).

I am a pluralist, that is to say that I look at all sorts of types of therapy theory and practice that can be integrated or synthesised.

Therapy

There is simply so much to therapy and there are so many theories that I cannot possibly hope to explain it all here. It can range from insight and awareness which helps with thought patterns to somatic experience aiding with nervous system responses.

Please see the FAQ page where I attempt to explain some points.

Ultimately, good therapy is about the relationship between the practitioner and the client. Whether you, in time, can feel comfortable and safe with your therapist.

Everyone is different, but that does not mean what you are going through is not normal.

A part of what I believe is that understanding yourself more helps you to be less hard on yourself and to better understand others.

All therapy is as individual as each person that comes to it. TA is a mainly talking therapy that has an emphasis on the fact that we all have value, even if we might have forgotten this somewhere along the line. Simply having someone to talk to is invaluable, especially when that someone is independent of your life, is non-judgemental and is on your side.

Therapy is useful for everyone, whatever your circumstances and however successful or unsuccessful you may think you are. In times past I never thought I needed therapy, I was not that type of person, but looking back I realise that it has been so helpful to me in so many ways.

I can aid you to deal with whatever it is that you are struggling with: 

stress;

CFS/ME;

grief;

relationships;

loss;

life change;

trauma;

anxiety;

a niggling sense that something is not quite right; and

goodness the list goes on...