About Me

My Career To Date

Before I became a counsellor I felt my working life lacked depth and meaning. I flitted between jobs in advertising, hospitality and office admin. Then the realisation came that I wanted to care and help others. My working life took direction towards caring roles, yet I still felt a void within me in terms of job satisfaction.

Following on from a period of depression and anxiety and after exhausting other avenues, I decided to seek therapeutic help.

My experience of therapy was so profound that I knew where I needed to be. I enrolled on a therapy course, fell in love, and continued to attend course after course after course.

13 years later I still cannot get enough and I continue to pursue further training and development within this amazing field.

• Qualifications

  Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision
  Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
  Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills
  Usui Reiki Master
  Usui Reiki Level 2 Certificate
  Usui Reiki Level 1 Certificate

• Current Training

  MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents, and Families.

• Experience

  As a registered member of the National Counselling Society, I have accumulated over 3000 clinical client hours.
  
  My clinical caseload has been in a variety of settings such as lower, middle, secondary and sixth form schools offering one-to-one and group sessions.
  
  I worked in the Befordshire community with victims of crime such as burglary and assault as well as victims of domestic sexual abuse including witnesses to domestic violence.
  
  I was privileged to work for mental health charities as a volunteer, paid member of staff and supervisor of individuals and groups.
  
  I have also been working in private practice for over 8 years and have extensive experience in long term and short term work to suit each individual.
  
  In addition to this I am privileged and honored to have the opportunity to supervise paid and unpaid counsellors on a consultancy basis for a local charity which offers counselling support to young people across Bedfordshire.

• Tutoring

  As well as working with clients, I am also a a tutor for counsellors at levels 3, 4, and 5 as a process group facilitator, group supervisor and counselling skills teacher.