About Me

I have over twenty years’ experience of working with children and young people. Before I qualified as a counsellor I held pastoral roles in a variety of settings, with responsibilities for safeguarding children and young people and offering one to one and group support to children, young people and their families. I currently work for Coventry and Warwickshire MIND in partnership with the NHS to offer therapeutic support to Looked After Children in Warwickshire. I also offer counselling services in schools.

I offer a welcoming, confidential, non-judgemental space for children and young people aged 8-18 years of age to explore their thoughts, feelings, relationships and life experiences. Having the space to focus on themselves and process how they think, feel and experience can be transformative and provide relief, clarity and hope.

I have a warm and down to earth personality and I respect individual uniqueness and circumstances. I am skilled in building meaningful and trustworthy counselling relationships with children and young people so that they can engage in the therapeutic process and move forward in their lives and development.

I do not believe that any one therapeutic modality is right for everyone. As an integrative counsellor I am trained to use person centred, psychodynamic, systemic and cognitive behavioural therapies. My work with children and young people is uniquely tailored to their individual needs and importantly for children and young people. I am trained to use play and creative activities within the counselling I provide.

“We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.”

Gabor Maté

Qualifications and Training

Qualifications

Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People from The University of East London 2020

Pre Trial Therapy Training from The Survivors Trust 2022

Level 2 accreditation in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for working with adolescents from The British Psychological Society 2022

Parent Child Attachment Play Practitioner with Clearsky Children’s Charity 2023

Training I will be completing in 2024

Dyadic Development Psychotherapy – May 2024

Advanced Certificate in Therapeutic Life Story Work with Therapeutic Life Story Work International – July 2024