About Me
ABOUT ME
I have many years experience in working with people. Prior to training as a counsellor and psychotherapist I worked for a large banking organisation responsible for coaching skills, performance management, team building and developing staff interpersonal skills.
I left banking to work as a psychological therapist and since qualification have worked in a wide range of settings both community and business based. I work with long term and short term contracts to suit the needs of each individual.
I have a particular interest in working with clients with eating problems and stress and run training programmes for health professionals. I work with groups and individuals and couples.
In addition to my counselling qualifications I am also a qualified supervisor and work with individuals and groups in a wide range of settings.
I continually update my knowledge and skills with the aim to provide a positive experience of counselling I have undertaken additional training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy sometimes referred to as CBT, Post Traumatic Stress, Phobias, Anxiety Depression, Addictions and Creative Working. I am currently undertaking a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy.
Sometimes it can be really difficult to talk about a problem and to help people in these situations I use a Rewind Technique This can help you manage unwanted thoughts and feelings from the past and reduce anxiety.
I have many years experience in working with people. Prior to training as a counsellor and psychotherapist I worked for a large banking organisation responsible for coaching skills, performance management, team building and developing staff interpersonal skills.
I left banking to work as a psychological therapist and since qualification have worked in a wide range of settings both community and business based. I work with long term and short term contracts to suit the needs of each individual.
I have a particular interest in working with clients with eating problems and stress and run training programmes for health professionals. I work with groups and individuals and couples.
In addition to my counselling qualifications I am also a qualified supervisor and work with individuals and groups in a wide range of settings.
I continually update my knowledge and skills with the aim to provide a positive experience of counselling I have undertaken additional training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy sometimes referred to as CBT, Post Traumatic Stress, Phobias, Anxiety Depression, Addictions and Creative Working. I am currently undertaking a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy.
Sometimes it can be really difficult to talk about a problem and to help people in these situations I use a Rewind Technique This can help you manage unwanted thoughts and feelings from the past and reduce anxiety.
Qualifications
MY QUALIFICATIONS
UKCP Registered Psychotherapist
BACP Senior Accreditation British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy
MA Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
BSc. Therapeutic Counselling
Diploma In Counselling & Human Relationships
Certified Transactional Analyst Institute of Transactional Analysis
Level 1 Practitioner Emotional Freedom Technique
Certificate in Supervision
UKCP Registered Psychotherapist
BACP Senior Accreditation British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy
MA Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
BSc. Therapeutic Counselling
Diploma In Counselling & Human Relationships
Certified Transactional Analyst Institute of Transactional Analysis
Level 1 Practitioner Emotional Freedom Technique
Certificate in Supervision
Skills and Experiance
Experience :
I survived a midair collision
When I was 14, we were sent to a commune in the jungle in Paraguay, where we lived, alongside other families, in a simple home with a straw roof and clay floor. When I turned 15, I worked all day in the kindergarten and was schooled in the evening. The heat and way of life were oppressive. I suffered panic attacks.
There was one happiness, though: a young man called Jörg who worked as a night watchman. I would wait at my window to see him on horseback. I didn’t know, then, that this was being attracted to someone.
The rules did not allow us to hold hands or kiss, and feelings could be communicated only via a minister. We knew we wanted to marry but when Jörg asked the ministers’ permission, he was refused. They said my spirit was bad. No one ever told me this and I was left to assume he no longer cared for me.
In 1961, I watched my family return to England on the back of a dusty lorry; they would later be moved back and forth between communes in the US and UK, but it had been decided by the brotherhood that, at 22, I was old enough to stay on my own. My heart was in my mouth as I tried to catch Mummy’s attention to wave goodbye. I saw them only a few more times, at the Bruderhof’s behest.
After my family left I was sent to Pennsylvania. I was alone and my spirit was crushed. Two years later, without explanation, I was excluded.
When you experience shock, your mind blanks things out and there are parts of that day I was left on the roadside that I cannot recall. I remember the little house where I rented a room, and the hospital where I asked for a job. And I know that the minute I was left alone, it was as if all my aches and pains left me. I was so relieved to start living. I made friends, but never married.
I heard Jörg’s name again 16 years later, living in London, through a couple who had also been excluded. They said he’d been forced to leave the commune and was living in America. I wrote to him at once.
When his reply arrived, it was as if I had shed a dead skin. I had longed so much for a husband and children, and now, at 40, all my seeking was over. We pieced together how the brotherhood had prevented us from marrying and what had happened to us since. He moved to England and we married six weeks later; soon after, we adopted three children.
I am 78 now and we live four miles from where I was born. I still have private spiritual belief but institutional Christianity isn’t for me.
I always loved my parents, and only when I trained as a counsellor did I feel anger towards them for their complicity in what happened. Part of me is brought to tears when I share my story, but the stronger feeling is one of fulfilment and victory at how life turned out.
I survived a midair collision
When I was 14, we were sent to a commune in the jungle in Paraguay, where we lived, alongside other families, in a simple home with a straw roof and clay floor. When I turned 15, I worked all day in the kindergarten and was schooled in the evening. The heat and way of life were oppressive. I suffered panic attacks.
There was one happiness, though: a young man called Jörg who worked as a night watchman. I would wait at my window to see him on horseback. I didn’t know, then, that this was being attracted to someone.
The rules did not allow us to hold hands or kiss, and feelings could be communicated only via a minister. We knew we wanted to marry but when Jörg asked the ministers’ permission, he was refused. They said my spirit was bad. No one ever told me this and I was left to assume he no longer cared for me.
In 1961, I watched my family return to England on the back of a dusty lorry; they would later be moved back and forth between communes in the US and UK, but it had been decided by the brotherhood that, at 22, I was old enough to stay on my own. My heart was in my mouth as I tried to catch Mummy’s attention to wave goodbye. I saw them only a few more times, at the Bruderhof’s behest.
After my family left I was sent to Pennsylvania. I was alone and my spirit was crushed. Two years later, without explanation, I was excluded.
When you experience shock, your mind blanks things out and there are parts of that day I was left on the roadside that I cannot recall. I remember the little house where I rented a room, and the hospital where I asked for a job. And I know that the minute I was left alone, it was as if all my aches and pains left me. I was so relieved to start living. I made friends, but never married.
I heard Jörg’s name again 16 years later, living in London, through a couple who had also been excluded. They said he’d been forced to leave the commune and was living in America. I wrote to him at once.
When his reply arrived, it was as if I had shed a dead skin. I had longed so much for a husband and children, and now, at 40, all my seeking was over. We pieced together how the brotherhood had prevented us from marrying and what had happened to us since. He moved to England and we married six weeks later; soon after, we adopted three children.
I am 78 now and we live four miles from where I was born. I still have private spiritual belief but institutional Christianity isn’t for me.
I always loved my parents, and only when I trained as a counsellor did I feel anger towards them for their complicity in what happened. Part of me is brought to tears when I share my story, but the stronger feeling is one of fulfilment and victory at how life turned out.
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