My education, Continual Professional Development and experience. 

I am a fully qualified Counsellor/Psychotherapist and I see adults and young people in my private practice in Newton Abbot.

Personally, I have encountered a range of lifes issues and I know how it is to experience difficulty, from crippling anxiety to confidence and relationship issues, amongst many others. I feel that my experiences, both personally and professionally, are at the heart of my ability to connect with and relate to, with real understanding and empathy, a wide range of people of varying ages and struggles. I have a first hand knowledge of how it is to be in crisis and difficulty and I use this and my heart in my work to the benefit of my clients. 

As a Counsellor/Psychotherapist some of the issues I have worked with include: Anxiety, Depression, Stress, Bareavement, Carer Related Issues, Relationship Problems, Sexual Assault, Childhood Traumas, Domestic Violence, Low Self Esteem, Bullying, Anger, Suicidal Thoughts, Spiritual Emergence, Inner Critic, Identity Crisis, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Exam Stress and Panic Attacks. 

My therapeutic model consists of approaches and techniques drawn mainly from Gestalt, Person Centred and Cognitive Behavioural disciplines, meaning that I can use a variety of interventions to facilitate my clients in moving forward. I have found working in nature to be extremely beneficial to the therapeutic experience and so hold a lot of my work outside.

In 2011 I graduated from The University of Exeter with a BSc Degree in Psychology.

I have over 10 years of experience of working in the mental health sector from working with pre school children on the autistic spectrum, to teenagers in the care system, adults in mental health and the elderly with alzheimers and other related dementias.

Continual Professional Development (CPD) is important to me and so I regularly attend courses which inform my practice, feed my passion and enable me to explore working with different issues using different techniques:

Introduction to Therapeutic Approaches to Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP) - November 2013

Understanding Substance Misuse- December 2013

Exploring  Dreams (Gestalt Approach)- December 2013

The Transpersonal in Practice- March 2014

Working with Body Process- March 2014

Nature Therapy-June 2014

Working With Anger (Children)-September 2014

The Care System and Attachment Disorder-October 2014

Safeguarding Young People-October 2014

Working Therapeutically with Puppets-October 2014

Greif and Loss-November 2014

Mental Health First Aid Training (2 day intensive course)-December 2014

Building Self Esteem-February 2015

Working with Dreams and Visualisation – February 2015

Working with Clients who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse-February 2015

Working with Eating Disorders-March 2015

Mindfulness-March 2015

Sand Tray Therapy-April 2015

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (2 day intensive course)-April 2015

Person Centred Therapy with Children and Young People- July 2015

How to Stop Taumatic Nightmares-EMDR- July 2015

Prevent Duty- Raising Awareness to the Anti-Radicalisation of young and vulnerable people- January 2016

Pathologcal Demand Avoidance Awareness- April 2016

Understanding and Working with Trauma- April 2016

My comittment to CPD is on-going and all of my certificates can be viewed on request. 

I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)