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Pebble Beach

ABOUT ME

I have been working therapeutically since I graduated ​from Roehampton University with an MA in dramatherapy (distinction). Since then I have continued to develop my practice and have undertaken training in couples therapy, eco-therapy, and clinical supervision. I have worked in many different settings including the NHS adult mental health services, end of life environments, supporting the LGBTQ+ community, adults with complex physical and learning disabilities, and children and young people in primary and secondary schools.

 

I also have my own private practice supporting people with a wide range of emotional needs. 

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I am person centred and take an integrative approach to my therapeutic work. This means in each session I will be led by yourself and what you choose to work with, as well as drawing upon a variety of therapeutic approaches to best support you. I also take a psychodynamic approach to the therapeutic work, which can help people to understand how their past experiences and relationships can shape their present feelings and behaviours.

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I use creativity in my therapeutic work as I believe that, in its purest form, it is an expression of the inner self. Creativity connects the mind and body to the inner self on both a conscious and unconscious level, enabling an individual to therapeutically explore what is emerging for themselves in an way that might be less challenging than speaking directly about their lived experiences. This provides clients with the opportunity to move beyond the more traditional approach of talking therapies to explore and understand the parts of themself that are hidden from other people and also from themselves.

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I use nature in my therapeutic work as I believe that we are not separate from the world that we inhabit. We are living in a era of eco and climate anxiety, which has arisen from our disconnection to the natural environment around us. In doing so, we have become dysregulated and disassociated from ourselves, others, and nature itself. In taking an eco-therapeutic approach there is the opportunity for an individual to become regulated once more, to reconnect and to therapeutically make use of nature to more fully understand themselves and the world they have the privilege of living in.  

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My specialisms include:

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  • death, dying, and grief

  • working with the LGBTQ+ community​

  • couples therapy​

  • neuro-diversity

  • working complex physical and learning disabilities

  • looked after children

  • complex adult mental health

  • addiction issues

  • clinical supervision for mental health practitioners

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I am registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)

HCPC Registration Number: AS14715 and subscribe to their code of practice.

 

I am a member of the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth) and subscribe to their code of practice.

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I subscribe to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's (BACP) code of practice.

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I am DBS checked and approved.

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Mobile: 07814 726543

Bath, Bradford-on-Avon and the surrounding areas

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