I offer help with difficulties such as trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, the enhancement of confidence & performance, and personal development. In my therapeutic practice I integrate CRM, EMDR, clinical hypnosis, body psychotherapies, meditative practices and cognitive behavioural procedures.

I have postgraduate training in integrative counselling/psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis, and consultant status in Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR).  I am accredited as a Senior Practitioner by the BACP and a Consultant by EMDR Europe.

I have particular interest in the treatment of post traumatic experiences: I was a contributor to NICE National Clinical Practice Guideline No. 26 – Post-traumatic stress disorder: the management of PTSD in adults and children in primary, secondary and community care.  I have an interest in transpersonal and spiritual dimensions and am currently researching anomalous experience in the therapeutic process for PhD in the Department of Psychology & Counselling at the University of Greenwich.

I work mainly in Brighton & Hove but can travel to undertake work in other areas.  I charge £75 per hour for self-referring clients, and a varying fee for clients who are referred by agencies.  If you’re thinking of embarking on therapy, I’d be pleased to discuss how I might be of help before you decide to proceed.

I now live and practice in East London, UK, where I work with adults. My practice areas include:

• Couples Therapy
• Individual Therapy
• Depression and Anxiety Therapy
• Bereavement Counselling
• Abuse or trauma issues
• Parent-child conflict

My practice is informed by these techniques:

• CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
• DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
• Imago Couples Therapist
• I am a certified EMDR (Eye-Motor Desensitization Reprocessing) trauma therapist
• CRM Comprehensive Resource Model

I initially trained in Psychodynamic Counselling. I have a particular interest in attachment and the way in which our earliest relationships form the blueprint for later relationships. Through my own personal work with trauma I have developed an interest in working with the body. Our earliest experiences of being held, rocked and gazed at cannot be cognitively remembered. However, when we become resourced, when we feel safe enough, then the body is able to remember. CRM provides the resources that we need, during therapy as well as to use between sessions. Personal work with CRM has allowed me to become more securely attached as well as deepening the sense of flow in my life.  I am finally stepping into the person I was meant to be. I have completed the CRM Basic Training, as well as Advanced CRM with Core Self. I have also participated in a small group experiential with Lisa Schwarz.

Biography

I initially trained at the University of Edinburgh in both Person Centred and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Since then, my training has included Lisa Schwarz’s CRM models of Basic Training, as well as the Advanced trainings of Core Self, Generational, and the Intensive.

I have an extensive combined experience across the mental health sector with In Care Survivors Scotland and Open Secret; in education with Place2Be; in the voluntary sector with Lifeline Pregnancy and Counselling Care, and in my private practice in Edinburgh, as well as the Borders.

Experience and Specialities

My experience in practising CRM with clients, and in receiving it for myself, is that it works. Through the super strong multiple layers of internal resourcing that you will be learning and practising, allowing access to those deep wounded parts that need to share their story and be released from looping round your ‘system’ in the way that has influenced and limited your life so far. CRM addresses all your obstacles to healing, those parts of you that fear the work, or fear what happens to them if you begin the process of healing. I believe that CRM provides you with the opportunity for working towards your highest health and potential.

If you feel it’s time for you to address your own trauma; your fears, anxiety, depression, PTSD from traumatic event(s), stress, eating disorders, addictive coping strategies, your sense of alone-ness, a feeling of disconnect with yourself and/or others, then do please be in touch.

Biography

I am a Counsellor, working within a Rape & Sexual Assault Centre. I have worked with trauma related issues for the last 15yrs. Many of the people I work with have complex trauma and many are on the dissociative spectrum and I have worked over the last 10yrs or so with several clients with DID.

Specialties

Dissociative Identity Disorder, Trauma