Counselling & Psychotherapy

I am a BACP accredited counsellor and psychotherapist and UKRCP registered. I work for Relate (The Relationship People) and in private practice with couples, individuals and young people, regardless of sexual orientation or preference, sexuality, race, religion, culture or disability. My work and experience with young people is through varied Cheshire schools and on-line as well as private practice. My ethical position on issues such as professional conduct, confidentiality and safety is within the BACP ethical framework.

What sort of problems does counselling help with?

I specialise in building and developing personal and family relationships.
Good relationships affect how well we function in our working lives and other groups we are involved in. My clients come for help with a wide range of problems whether or not they are in a one to one relationship at the time.

We can not, not be in a relationship when we are involved in activities that include other people.

Couples may choose to come when there is a crisis, such as an affair or one partner may be considering leaving the relationship. Or there might be conflict which they feel unable to resolve by themselves. In this case it is better if both partners come along but counselling with one partner helps too, if the other is unable or does not want to come.

Couples may have decided to separate and want help to manage the separation as amicably as possible, especially where children are involved.

Individuals or couples may come when external factors such as coping with extended families, bereavement, unemployment, redundancy, work stress etc, have created distress and conflict in the family or at work. Counselling helps them to manage feelings and the situation more constructively.

Individuals may choose to work at coming to terms with the loss of a relationship or explore their past relationships with a view to understanding themselves better. As a result, they are able to move on and make more informed choices in relationships in future.

Individuals may be seeking personal counselling. Issues they may want help with include: motivation, self esteem, confidence, anxiety, stress, or past issues and losses that might be creating feelings of general unhappiness and distress. Counselling helps to put issues past and present into a more useful context, leading to improvement in self esteem, confidence and general well being.

Couples or individuals may come along with a desire to understand and accept different sexuality in the family. My work and training with Friends and Families of Lesbian and Gay people (FFLAG) has contributed to my expertise in working with in this area.

Young people may want to talk about things like: sexuality; bullying; peer pressures and relationships; school work and/or exam pressure. Sometimes they disclose more complex problems like misuse of drugs or alcohol, eating disorders and self harm. They can start the process of talking which can be the first step to getting appropriate help from other specialist agencies.

So, as you can see, clients are many and varied and bring issues that are many and varied. But despite these variations, clients have some things in common. And these are: a desire for change; a wish to minimise or remove distress and anxiety and a need for a deeper understanding of themselves, their partners, family members or others around them.

Through my work with Relate, I have extensive training and experience in working with the sort of issues and conflicts that arise in most situations and expertise in working with more complex matters like bereavement, domestic violence or abuse; mental health and relationships; surviving sexual abuse and working with a sexual focus.

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