Overview

Perhaps you are in a difficult life transition or are feeling depressed, anxious, overwhelmed or alone. Your relationships may be unfulfilling. You may be looking for a specialist in a private, confidential setting. You may find your work life affected. As many of us do, you might feel lost or alone after becoming a partner or parent

I am a fully qualified, professional counselor with more than ten years of counseling experience working in London and Cambridge. Counselling is a personal, confidential and rewarding relationship, which has the potential to positively change your life. If you are seeking a counselor and you are ready to engage in a process towards creating a more fulfilling life – please contact me. In my private practice I specialise in, but am not limited to, problems with relationships, substance addictions, family work and breaking self-destructive patterns. I work with individual adults and couples, in clarifying/understanding their problems and sorting out conflicts so they can make better decisions. This can result in peace of mind and harmonious relationships.

My style is fairly eclectic using techniques and interventions tailored to specific issues and clients. I attempt to help clients explore their feelings and life situations so that they can make better choices and decisions for themselves. These choices will allow them to experience their authentic selves and to move forward with their lives in a productive way.

Counselling

We offer a range of counselling:

Addictions

Addiction counselling is designed to do more than simply reduce or remove alcohol or drug use. It will also focus on getting the addicted person to examine and change their lifestyle whether it is addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, food or gambling etc.

Work Issues

Whether you are facing redundancy, or surviving cuts in the workplace, powerful feeling can emerge. Counselling can help to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, re-energise job satisfaction and commitment. Looking at work situations with a supportive counsellor can help you to focus on where you are and what you want from your working environment.

Relationships

Relationships counselling can offer a couple time and space to reflect on their patterns of behaviour and to help them understand why they feel and respond the way they do. It can help them face past relational experiences which may be unresolved and which may be re-playing in their current relationship. At times, it is our learning in our own early family and childhood which may be getting in the way of our current intimate relationships..

Co-Dependancy

Co-dependacy counselling can help acknowledge the responses and behaviours people develop from living with an alcoholic or substance abuser. A number of attributes can be developed as a result of those conditions.
However, over the years, co-dependency has expanded into a definition which describes a dysfunctional pattern of living and problem solving developed during childhood by family rules.

Life Issues

Life issues counselling...

Anxiety

Anxiety counselling is widely available for people coping with anxiety. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for example, is a particularly effective anxiety treatment. Practitioners address the thought processes that trigger the anxiety and provide relaxation techniques to help alleviate symptoms such as panic attacks.

Depression

Depression - A state of extreme dejection or morbidly excessive melancholy; a state of hopelessness and feeling of inadequacy, often with physical symptoms (Oxford Dictionary, 1990)

Abuse

Abuse counselling offers victims the chance to talk face-to-face, in a safe non-judgemental environment. Therapeutic approaches such as Client-centred therapy may be suitable for people who have suffered abuse. Client centred practitioners aim to help the client come to terms with their emotional issues and realise their ability to take control of their lives.