Adult and Young Person Counsellor
I am a qualified Integrative Counsellor, registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Additional training has included The Sherwood Institute, ‘Working with Children and Young People’, Keele University ‘An introduction to working with Nature’, Cambridge College, Post-Graduate Diploma in ‘Adlerian Person-Centred Supervision for the Helping Professions’, as well as a variety of theoretical and experiential workshops and courses. I strive towards providing a humanistic, holistic and person-centred approach to my work, working with my clients to meet their individual needs.
I have a private practice, work with Cruse Bereavement Care as a Bereavement Volunteer, Supervisor and Trainer, as well as having worked with the YMCA Young Person’s Counselling Service from 2014, until it’s closure in 2017. I feel very excited about the ethos behind Don’t Lose Hope and the counselling service it offers; and feel privileged to be a part of the Counselling Team. I wish all who are concerned with charity heartfelt good wishes for a successful future.
My passion behind counselling is rooted from working in a school environment for over 35 years where I noticed a steady decline in children’s’ mental health. This led me to be curious about ways of supporting children, which in turn, led to a change of career in the field of counselling. I am a mother of two adult children, a girl and boy aged 30 and 28 respectively, and also a grandmother of two and counting, all of whom hold my heart full of joy.
