About me
I am a trained registered Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. I work from a relationship model, which considers how our past can influence our present, relationships, meanings we have made and how this effects our current relationship to ourselves, others and our world.

If you are looking for help, support and change in your life psychotherapy/counselling/trauma psychotherapy offer an opportunity to explore in depth; relationship issues, presenting symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, abuse, addiction and mental health issues. To enable you to work towards a greater sense of integrated self and choice in your life. I offer to work with you to the best of my capacity to find what it is you need from therapy.

Training, qualifications & experience
level 2 counselling skills
level 3 counselling studies
level 4 Dip therapeutic counselling
level 5 Psychotherapeutic counselling
CRM Comprehensive Resource Model training
CRM Comprehensive Resource Model training. I chose to do the training twice to encapsulate the model at a deeper level.
DBR Deep Brain Orienting for further details please visit https://deepbrainreorienting.com/

Placements and organisations I have worked within are as follows:
SAND Survivors Alliance North Devon CIC A specialist agency for any adult who has experienced sexual abuse or rape.
NDADA North Devon Against Domestic Abuse
Clarity (mental health charity) offering low cost counselling for mental health
NHS Devon Partnership Trust Psychology department, Breaking Free program (historical sexual abuse) and Historical Trauma Programme.
Inclusis family Assessment Centre.
Devon County Council/DPT NHS I worked as a mental health support worker for the Link Centres for 2 years. I found the work gave me a good understanding and appreciation of the structure of the mental health services. And a very in-depth experience of working creatively with a mixed client group.

Sessions info-
CRM Sessions are 1hr for £60 and 1.5hrs for £90.00
Payable by cash or BACS before the session. Session are pre-booked in advance.
Online, and face to face sessions are available (face to face sessions require a risk assessment for suitability regarding covid risk/ I hold a covid agreement when working face to face)

Member organisations
BACP
Accredited register membership
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

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 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