Credentials

ncs22-01954 (2024-25).pdf

This is the boring and dry list of much of my training and experience, but which I hope gives you some confidence about whether I might have the skills and knowledge to support you. Here goes...

I am an Accredited Counsellor with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). I am also a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and belong to their Coaching division. The NCPS and BACP are accredited by the Professional Standards Authority set up by the UK Government's Health & Social Care DepartmentI'm also registered with the Mindfulness Teachers' Register in the UK. In order to join these professional ethical bodies I have had to prove that I have passed professional qualifications and work to good professional standards to ensure that you, as a client, are  able to receive the best possible therapeutic care. I have also received enhanced-DBS checks (for working with children and vulnerable adults). I aim to be a culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed, and non-oppressive practitioner. You are in safe hands.

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Research Interests:​

Professional Development (CPD):​

I practise contextually taking into account the relevance of ancestral and historic, geopolitical, socioeconomic, environmental, systemic and biological factors affecting peoples's emotional and mental wellbeing and relationships, and capacities to thrive. I apply my phenomenological practice-based research to amplify the efficacy of evidence-based, empirical techniques integrated in a person-centred way. All my therapeutic work is clinically supervised according to professional standards.

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Ethics:

Clients need to be able to trust their therapists on a deep level in order to receive beneficial outcomes. Therefore, as a member of the NCPS, I take being trustworthy as a serious ethical commitment. 

I have agreed that I will: 

You can read more about the NCPS Code of Ethics by clicking the button below which will take you to a PDF.