About Me

Qualifications

• BA degree  in Integrative Counselling 
• Masters Level training as  a Gestalt Psychotherapist
• I am a registered member  of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP),  and as part of my continuing professional development have also completed a full 4 year training as a Gestalt Psychotherapist.
  
  

Experience

• Therapist in private practice
• Therapist work within the NHS and with EAP clients
• Psychotherapy tutor for Coventry University Group based in Scarborough   

So as a therapist how would I actually work with you......?     

Well because the way I work with my clients is largely by using the Gestalt model, you and I will stay with the 'here and now' of your experience.  Right as you are; as you sit - or stand or lie down or wander around the room!

So whatever you're thinking, or however you're feeling, that's what we stay with.

Why?  

Because then you're being yourself.  Just as you are as you go around being yourself, in the world outside.  

And so, if you're anxious, depressed, uncertain etc.  Or if actually, there's not a whole lot wrong with life, but there's just something that you want to explore for yourself.  That you finally want to get to the bottom of.  That's how you'll be with me as we're in the room together, and then in a very real way, we're dealing with what it's really like to be you.

And then we know we're dealing with your reality.

Because we will also be looking at your body language as well as your thoughts and feelings, quite often at first you may not be sure how to respond to certain things I might ask you about, or tell you what I've observed with regard to what you do.

But don't worry.  Once you get the hang of it, you'll come to enjoy knowing how to use this type of information that your body imparts, and how to use it for your benefit and wellbeing.  I find that my clients are often, -unexpectedly - delighted by the impactful effect that working with their body language has on our work together.

Another area of our work can be to work with your dreams, yet another rich source of information about what is happening for you.

I present this vision of what it may be like for us to work together in order to furnish you with an idea of what you can expect when we set off on the journey together.

I hope you'll find this useful.  There are many other ways in which we could work together, but I hope this provides you with something of a framework to operate within.       

In the therapy space I receive you in a completely non-judgemental way.  Which in itself can be very healing.