About me and my counselling approach

I believe the relationship formed between yourself and your counsellor is fundamental to effective counselling. A good relationship allows you to feels accepted without being judged, supported and believed in. This kind of relationship provides you with confidence that heard and met as you explore the difficult issues, shame, anxieties or other issues in your life.

Therapy and counselling provides a safe and boundaried space for this kind of client/counsellor relationship to develop. A place you can use to explore how your world within is impacting your world without. Where you can gain more insight about how your self identity, relationships, shame, behaviours and the like are affecting your life. It enables self-discovery and can facilitate change.

My desire and aim is for people to enjoy living with "the whole of you in all of life", not governed by broken relationships, fear and shame. I am an integrative counsellor, which means that I blend a number of different theories and approaches. For those interested in technical terms, my way of working is mostly influenced by the person centred (humanistic) and psychodynamic approaches. I also draw on attachment theory and the transpersonal (spiritual) aspects of life.

I have specialist training in working with those affected by behavioural addictions, particularly sex and pornography addiction. This can include the individual struggling with the addiction themselves as well as family members (partners, adult children etc). I also have experience working with non-contact sexual offending that may have resulted as an escalation of the sexual addiction.

Sex addiction counselling

General Counselling

Are you experiencing anxiety or stress, some aspects of bereavement and loss or some other life circumstance that you wish to explore? Are you wanting to explore some aspect of your identity or sexuality, the impact of early developmental experiences or trauma? These are all issues that I have worked with and may be able to offer you some support.