Since completing four years training in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy I have gained more than 30 years’ experience in providing therapeutic support to individuals of all ages.
I care deeply about the provision of care and support for everyone at difficult times in their lives, I strongly believe that everyone deserves to be treated with respect and I am mindful that at times it may be difficult to reach out for help or support.
Due to additional training and experience of working with individuals and families over the years, I have developed a style of working that is tailored to meet individual needs. Drawing from a tool-box of therapeutic interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution Focused Counselling, Bereavement Counselling, Critical Incident Debriefing, Coaching, Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to provide early intervention and management of a wide range of emotional and mental health issues.
I have experience of working with and supporting people of all ages with ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder), both before and following diagnosis.
I specialise in stress and anxiety management, delivering a range of therapeutic approaches designed to provide a better understanding of stress, and the development of new skills to facilitate change and more control of your life. Learn how to challenge negative thinking processes and how to take more control of your thoughts and emotions with effective mind management.
For many years I worked with referrals from GP’s to deliver psychosocial support and therapeutic interventions for people of all ages for a wide range of issues such as depression, emotional stress, anxiety, panic attacks, bereavement, relationship difficulties, parenting and child behaviour.
I have 30 years’ experience of working with issues affecting children and young people, having in the past worked as Welfare Officer for a large College/University, and also working with young people who have been referred via schools, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and GP’s.
Understanding the importance of early intervention in preventing mental health issues from impinging not only on an individual’s sense of wellbeing but also on business through loss of productivity, increased sickness, absence and litigation, for a few years I was also interested in delivering corporate support and training in association with Mind Synergy International based in Amsterdam.
Chairing The Swaffham and District Health Forum for eight years until March 2017, I developed and managed this quarterly forum for professionals to network and share information & good practice.
In 2012, I became Deputy Chair of the newly formed Breckland Older People’s Forum, later becoming Chairman; working closely with and supported by Breckland Council and Norfolk County Council. The Forum is affiliated to the Norfolk Older People’s Strategic Partnership which exists to ensure that the county’s significant and growing population of older people will live well and independently, for as long as possible. Breckland Council embraced the objectives that we worked towards and we felt able to wind up the Forum at the beginning of covid in 2020.
In 2017 I completed training as part of the Psychological Services Team at St Nicholas Hospice Care in Bury St Edmunds who provide emotional support to individuals and their families facing long term illness or life threatening illness.
I am also a breast cancer survivor, having been diagnosed and treated during the height of the covid pandemic in 2020/21 – last two mammograms ‘all clear’.
