Perhaps you will want to know how I might work with you, or about my practice and experience I will use to try and help you.
I trained at Wpf Therapy, a charitable clinic in London.Counselling and psychotherapy at Wpf was low cost and inclusive, open to anyone over 18 who needed help. This meant that by the time I qualified in 2011, I had worked with different ages, ethnicities and backgrounds. I learnt a lot about how no-one gets to go through life without feeling discriminated, excluded or judged, but for some, this can be much worse than others.
While training I worked in primary and secondary schools as counsellor and in a youth offending team as a mentor. I learned to think on my feet, adults who come for therapy might get the part about sitting in a chair and talking. Young people don’t, especially if they have been sent for therapy, and I learned how much you need to trust someone to be able to talk to them.
Since qualifying, I have worked in the NHS in a Specialist Psychotherapy Service in East London. Here, people who were very unwell taught me how progress can be very different for different people, just getting out of the house to your appointment might be a lot of work some days.
I worked for several years for a voluntary organisation where I supported teenagers who were often depressed, struggling in their relationships, maybe hurting themselves or having a difficult time being in their body.
I work in private practice within a network of psychotherapists and counsellors, under clinical supervision and I am registered with a governing body, the British Psychoanalytic Council. I work according to the BPC’s ethical framework and standards of practice. I have also been helped by therapy myself over many years.