About me

Before I qualified in Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy I worked in large public sector organisations for 27 years, I worked in Change Management for the last 17 years of my employment. I trained as an MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) practitioner, carrying out Personality profiling and then as a  Leadership coach and mentor working with senior managers to improve their leadership performance. Whilst I really enjoyed the personality profiling and coaching, it is not meant to be therapy, so if a person had mental health issues that were blocking their performance, these issues need to be addressed by a therapist first, so as a coach I had to refer on individuals who would benefit from therapy. I decided then that I would train to be a psychotherapist, that way I could work holistically with my clients, using both psychotherapy and coaching as appropriate. I went back to university to complete my professional training studying an MSc in Psychotherapy and Counselling. I left the corporate world and began in private practice as a psychotherapist, counsellor and coach in  January 2014.

I believe that with my corporate and coaching background and my training in counselling and psychotherapy, I can help clients therapeutically to deal with their mental health issues and if desired, use my coaching skills to either enhance performance at work or have more direction in life. I am also an accredited Couple Therapy Practitioner (Tavistock Clinic) and a qualified clinical hypnotherapist (London College of Clinical Hypnosis with University of London).

Qualifications

• B.A. (Hons) Psychology (Manchester Polytechnic)
• Post Graduate Certificate in Counselling (Salford University)
• Post Graduate Diploma Psychotherapy and Counselling (Professional Training,Salford University)
• MSc Psychotherapy and Counselling  (Salford University)
• Post Graduate Certificate (Level 7) in Executive Coaching and Mentoring (Institute of Leadership and Management)
• MBTI Licensed Practitioner (OPP, Oxford)
• CPPD Foundation course in Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH with University of West London)
• Post Graduate certificate in Clinical Hypnotherapy (LCCH with University of West London) 

Professional Memberships

• BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)
• BSCH (British Society of Clinical Hypnosis)