You may be facing recent or long-term issues with which you need help. I have been counselling for 6 years and use a variety of approaches to suit my clients, who can be of any age or background. I am LGBTQI-affirming. I practise at the Wellbeing Clinic in Headington, Oxford, but can also work online. If it would help to have a preliminary chat on the phone, I am always happy to call you at a pre-arranged time to do so. Or we can have a reduced-rate introductory session.
As with all of us, your life may get difficult as events and emotions come and go: these are often left unprocessed until we give ourselves time to think and talk about them. You may be feeling some discontent, at a crossroads, lacking motivation or direction. Or you may be at the end of your tether. My aim is to help you explore all or any area of your life and work out what the future might hold.
W H Auden, in his poem in memory of Sigmund Freud, referred to ‘a world he changed / simply by looking back with no false regrets’; like him, having explored both the past and the present, I hope you will feel ‘able to approach the Future as a friend’. I will spend time getting to know you and tailor the work we do around what we both feel is needed, with regular reviews to check that we are making progress.
Having previously worked with Cruse Bereavement Care and Clean Slate, I am now a psychotherapist in private practice at the Wellbeing Clinic in Headington, while also working for a low-cost counselling service in East Oxford. My training has ranged from a person-centred approach, through mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, psychodynamic practice, to Gestalt, and Transactional Analysis, but my fundamental way of working is integrative – which means I draw on a number of approaches to suit my client and changing circumstances.
I came to counselling quite late in life, which means I have a number of life experiences to draw upon as well as my training and my experience in the therapy room. My professional life has included helping people in a number of roles, including teaching, advising, advocating, facilitating and managing. I have worked for large organisations and for smaller ones and have been self-employed.
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