Is anxiety holding you back in your personal life or at work? Are you struggling with low mood or is low self-worth stopping you from fulfilling your potential? Is it hard to control worry or negative self talk? Do you find it difficult to maintain healthy relationships? Have you experienced loss or grief that you are trying to make sense of?
I am an experienced psychotherapist and counsellor offering CBT, Trauma Focused CBT and psychodynamic counselling, online across the UK and in person in Ipswich. I provide a compassionate and safe space for you to explore your difficulties and help you to work towards your hopes for your future.
About me
I offer psychodynamic counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). I primarily work with individuals who are experiencing anxiety, low mood or depression, anger, relationship challenges, loss and trauma.
I work with adults during all life stages and I have a specialist interest working with people during pregnancy and in parenthood.
I have an MSc in Counselling and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and have specialist training in supporting parents who have experienced Birth Trauma and baby loss. I have worked with adults in NHS Talking Therapies and IAPT services and specialist mental health charities including Suffolk Mind and MumsAid.
I work with people from all walks of life and backgrounds, coming to me with a diverse range of problems. I am a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and a member of the BABCP and abide by their code of ethics.
https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/
CBT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a structured talking therapy that analyses the connections between your thoughts (cognitive) your feelings & emotions and your behaviours.
Typically it addresses the problems you are having in your life here and now so that you can develop coping skills and learn techniques to change negative or anxious thinking patterns and unwanted behaviours.
CBT is a collaborative, individulised and interactive therapy which combines your knowledge of yourself and the therapeutic knowledge of effective interventions and processes for change.
Sometimes it is necessary to look further back into your past to understand the cause of your problems or to process traumatic memories but the primary focus of CBT is helping you find solutions to current difficulties and work towards a more positive future.
CBT is typically a short term therapy (6-20 sessions) and is recommended for depression and anxiety, including OCD, panic, social anxiety, health anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, low self esteem, phobias and managing long term health conditions.
Pregancy and Parenthood
I have a specialist interest in working with people during pregancy and parenthood.
The journey to parenthood and becoming a mum or dad can bring unique challenges to our mental health and wellbeing.
We can be more vulnerable to anxiety during pregnancy, experience more frequent and intense intrusive thoughts and many new parents experience postnatal depression.
As we navigate the ages and stages of being a parent the challenges can ebb and flow and sometimes our own parenting experience can bring back into memory our experiences of childhood or past traumas.
We now know mothers in particular experience many physical and psychological changes throughout motherhood, an evolving life change now descibed as matrescence.
I have specialist training in both Baby Loss and Birth Trauma and have been working with people through their parenting journey for the past decade.
Brief Psychodynamic Counselling
The focus of psychodynamic therapy is to explore unconscious processes as they play out in current patterns of behaviour. This might look like repeatedly finding yourself in unhealthy relationships in your personal or professional life, perhaps you are compelled to please everyone even though you feel resentful or overwhelmed or maybe you have noticed you are habitually using food or substances to soothe difficult emotions. The therapeutic relationship serves as a guide to self-awareness and understanding of the influence and impact of past relationships, experiences and supressed emotions. In making sense of the past you can begin to let go of defence mechanisms (typically unhelpful behaviours that we acquire in order to protect ourselves from pain). This approach enables you to examine unresolved conflicts both internal and in relationships, physical and emotional symptoms and repeating patterns and work towards more healthy ways of coping with the ups and downs in life.
''The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.''
IRVIN D. YALOM
What issues can therapy help with?
People come to me for help a wide range of issues. Here are a few of the more common difficulties that can be supported through therapy:
Feelings of stress or anxiety
Panic attacks
Relationship problems
Grief, loss or bereavement
Postnatal anxiety and postnatal depression
Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
Abuse
Depression
Problems with confidence or self-esteem
Anger management
Issues relating to sexuality
Difficulties at work or in retirement
Problems with family life
Pregancy Anxiety
My location
I work online across the UK and in person in Suffolk.
I offer individualised short and longer term therapy depending on which therapeutic approach we agree is most suitable for you at this time and the areas you would like to work on.
Sessions are 50-60 minutes.
Fees & availability
I offer a free 20 minute call, either by phone or online for you to decide whether therapy with me is right for you.
Your first full session will be 50 to 90 minutes depending on the therapeutic approach and will involve a full assessment, a plan for therapy and an opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have.
Sessions are £55 online and £65 in person in Ipswich. 24 hours notice is required to cancel appointments without charge for the session.
Get in touch
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how therapy works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment. This enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to therapy, whether it could be helpful for you and whether I am the right therapist to help.
You can also call me on 01473 943548 if you would prefer to leave a message or speak to me first. I am happy to discuss any queries or questions you may have prior to arranging an initial appointment.
All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential.
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